Show I HUNS ASK WILSON TO FIX CONFERENCE TEXT OF NOTE SENT BY PRINCE MAXIMILIAN TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE i Declares German Government Will Accept the Program Set Forth in Presidents President's Message to Congress as Basis for Negotiations Amsterdam The The text of the thc note forwarded iJ by Imperial German Chan Charm Chancellor Prince Maximilian to President cut Wilson Ilson through the time Swiss go eminent follows folios The German GentIan government go requests the president ent of the United States to take tae in Im hued hand the restoration of peace acquaint nIl all the belligerent states with this request and invite them to send plenipotentiarIes for the purpose of opening negotiations It accepts the time program set forth fortim by bythe bythe bytho the tho president of the United States Slates in his hIs message to congress on January S San Sand Sand an and in Imm his later Inter pronouncements especially es es- especially his speech of September 2 27 us as a basis for peace negotiations With a u view vie to avoiding further bloodshed th the German Gelman government go requests requests requests re re- re- re quests the time immediate conclusion of an armistice on land and water an and I in inthe inthe 1 the air alt Washington Germanys Germany's new newest st peace offer pr proposing posing an armistice while President ent Wilson considers and und conveys es to the time allies a u proposal on the basis of terms laid latch down own b by the time president himself Is recognized here hero as the time next step in the time continuing efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts of or the German statesmen to save su something from the wreckage of their dream ream of world domination the step stel which might be expected from front a losing los- los ing trader who makes maes his mis proposition has has it rejected an and offers ills his his n next best each time coming nearer to the theleman demands leman s of his n adversary meanwhile endeavoring to hold out ouk In the time hopes of getting the best terms he can It hardly Is taking a position Ip inn In advance advance ad nd- vance of the American government to say that If the time pi In sent proposition signifies German Germanys Germany's s unqualified acceptance acceptance acceptance ac ac- of the fourteen principles of peace laid down own b by President ent Wilson In his I Fourth of July luly speech at the tomb of Washington It will he be ered If it doesn't if an acceptance in principle with s1 in saving diplomatic language paving the way for quibbling around a council table it will not be considered ered |