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Show ALSACE A! HI TOPICS Dr. Solf Sayf 'Germans Loyally Will Fulfill Wilson's Program of Fourteen Points By AMOcl.t.4 Praa. LONDON, Oct,-Th Turkish minister t Switzerland haa handed th Britiah and French mlnieter t that eauntry an affer af nac vir- tyally amuntin, eerrender, aa' eerdina t Brna diapatch t th Daily Mail. "" -- .By UnHe Preea. THE HAGUE. Oct. 2 In hia ' firat apeeeh in th reichatag ainc hia raleaae frem prin, Hre Ditt-man, Ditt-man, Socialiat, demanded a German Ger-man republic it became knawn j hr tdy. Independent Becialiata echoed the demand at meetinga ' thrughut th mpir. I i By Aeeeclated Preset j AMSTERDAM, Oct. 26. Dr.j Solf, the (Jerman foreign j secretary, iipeak inp; in the reiclis-, ta Thursday, said : I "Ag for Alsaoe-Lorraine. it is, clear that aa they were expreaely men- ! tloned among Preatdent Wllaon'a four- : teen polnta. we agree to regulatlona of: theae oueetlona. Having accepted " Wilson's prnprram as a basts for peace, wo will loyally fulfill tho procram In all directions and at all points." By Associated Press. BASKU Oct. 2. Tho question of Alsaco-Lorralno la purely a German Internal question, declares Karl Hausa, the new fovtmor of Alpace-Lorralne, In a statement published In tho R trass burr Gasotte. Tho statement la a reply re-ply to declarations made In tho reichs-tar reichs-tar by Dr. Klcklln, a deputy from Alsace-Lorraine, and amounts to a government manifesto. U la lasued In aaroement with other deputtea In Alsace-Lorraine. The statement of. Herr Ha tins declares de-clares that tho future of Alsace-Lorraine must be decided by vote of tha population and that It la an Internal question of Germane with which a peace conference could have nothinr to do. It concludes by saylnr that a new era la opening for A isace-Lorraine, which wlH enable the two provinces to form a point of reconciliation between Franco and Germany, and to elaborate elabo-rate in establishing; a compromise between be-tween two civlhaattnns called In work In common for the safety and prosperity prosper-ity of humanity. |