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Show RUSSIANS ADVISED DF OURWAH.AIMS PRESIDENT WILSON MAKES PLAIN POSITION OF THIS COUNTRY IN COMMUNICATION. No Annexations, No Indemnities and No Territory Must Change Hands Except for the Purpose of Fair Chance and Liberty. T Washington. President Wilson, in a communication to the new government of Russia, has made plain the war aims of the United States and Its position po-sition on "No annexations ; no .Indemnities." .Indem-nities." ' "No territory must change hands except ex-cept for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty," says the communication. "No indemnities must be insisted upon excep those that constitute payment pay-ment for manifest wrong done. "No readjustments of power must be made, except such as will tend to secure se-cure the future peace of the world and the future welfareand happiness of its people." In unmistakable terms President Wilson declares against Germany's proposal to restore the "status quo" before be-fore the war. "It was the status quo ante out of which this iniquitous war issues forth," he says, "the power of the imperial government within the empire and its widespread domination and influence outside of that empire. "That status must be altered in such fashion as to prevent any such hideous thing from ever happening again." The president's communication was delivered to the Russian government by Ambassador Francis at Petrograd. |