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Show GERMANY AGCEPTS PEACE TERMS LAID DOWim WILSON Offers to Evacuate Invaded Territory Ter-ritory as Prerequisite to an Armistice. Suggests That the President May Occasion the Meeting of a Mixed Commission for Making the Necessary Arrangements. Washington. Gcrmnny's reply to President Wilton's Inquiry, Intercepted Inter-cepted ns It wns being sent by the great wireless towers nt Notien nnd forwarded horo Saturday night, October Octo-ber 12, In nn official dispatch from France, declares Germany Is ready to accept President Wilson's peaco terms ovacunto tho Invaded territory as n prerequisite to an armistice mid that tlio bid for peaco represents the German pcoplo ns well ns the government. govern-ment. Text of Note. The tcr.t of tho nolo follows: ' In reply to tho questions of. the president of tho United Stntcs bf America, tho Qerman government fcexeby declares: Tho German government hns accepted ac-cepted tho terms laid down by President Presi-dent Wilson In his address of January Janu-ary 8th nnd In his subsequent addresses ad-dresses on tho foundation of a permanent perma-nent peaco of Justice. Consequently, Its object In entering Into discussions would ho only to ngrco upon practical details of tho application nf these terms. Tho German government lie-llovcs lie-llovcs that tho governments of the powers associated with tho government govern-ment of tho United States also take tho position taken by President Wll son In his address. Tho German government, gov-ernment, In nccordunco with tho Aus-trn-IIungarlnn government, for the purpose of bringing about nu armistice, armi-stice, dcoIaroH Itself ready to comply with tho propositions of (he president In tvganl to evacuation. The German government suggests that tho president presi-dent may occasion tho meeting of a mixed commission for making the neces"nry arrangements concerning tho evacuation. Tho present German government, which has undertaken tho responsibility for this step toward pence, has been farniod by conferences nnd. In ngrccmcnt with tho great majority of tho relchstng. Tho chancellor, chan-cellor, supported In all bis actions'' by ftiQ will of this majority, speaks In the nr.mo, of Oip German government arid of' the German people. "(SUmed) SOU''. Stalo Secretary of Foreign Office. IJorJIn, Octolicr 12, 1018. At tlio first reading tho text would seem to answer, In n manner which might lend to peace, nil tho questions President Wilson asked nf Chancellor Maximilian In his Inquiry, which wns sent as an nnswer to the German pearu note received hbw October 7. In this Inquiry tho president dp dared ho would not proposo an armistice armi-stice whllo troops of tint central powers pow-ers remained on invaded soil; he asked whether Prince Maximilian accepted ac-cepted tlio terms of peaco as laid down, or merely wanted to dlscusi Ihem "as n basis for negotiation," and finally ho asked whether the chancellor morely represented tho militarists mil-itarists who havo been conducting the war, Tho ono polnj; which appeared to loom up In tho text of tho unofficial copy Is wliolher Chancellor Maximilian Maximil-ian and Foreign Secrotnry Solf can In reality represent tho Qcrmnn poople, as tho rejily declares they do. |