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Show j WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. It was Field Marsha! voa Hindenbnrg himself and not the sap-. f posedly pacifist premier, Prince Maximilian, who caused the German government to accept : President Wilson s peace terms and seek an armistice, according to advices which reached Wash-JM inffton today through official sources by way of a neutral country. ?H Autocracy Must Go Con sidered First Condi- NB tion of Peace. H REPLY SATlSFACTO'Rfxll Wilson's Denunciation jH of Wanton Destruction Meets Approbation. J I ' n LONDON, Oct 15. The German au- tocracy must go is tho bending placed over President's Wilson reply to the p German peace note by the Liberal j Star, .which like most of the Liberal L newspapers considers this one of tho , a first conditions of peace with the cen- tral powers. A condition in the reply which ia j 1 given great display by the newspapers , is that which asks for guarantees for J W ! the maintenance of the present mill- 7 ' ij tary supremacy of the allied armies. I h Satisfaction is expressed with Presi j h H dent Wilson's reference to tho contin- J ued sinkings by German submarines k jj H and the "wanton destruction" in occu- h H pied territory while his decision that - p IH the conditions of an armistice must bo S left to the military advisers of the' en- V H tente appears to agree with the phraso ; H so often quoteb In the newspapers j j; during the last few days "leave it to 1 I I Foch." i i WILSON NOTE ON CABLES. , j H WASHINGTON, OqL 15. President Wilson's reply to Germany, cndlngvA ji H talk of an armistice until the Germans Ll H are ready to surrender and finally i H closing the door to peace negotiations v H with kaiser ism, was on the cables to- t H day, if It actually had not arrived at H Berne. Only a few hours shbuld be re- ji H quired for its delivery at Berne JJ H through the Swiss foreign office. H Atmosphere Is Cleared. H The feeling is apparent in Washing- t ton that tho atmosphere is clearer f than before Prince Maximilian camo J) forward with his peace drive; that the 1 H purposes of the United States and tho l allies are more than ever clearly stat- to ! ed and that the powers in Berlin and ; E the German peogle now must see tho j i futility of further attempts to avert j 1 defeat by compromise. M H Word From Turkey Awaited. flH So far the president had dealt only 'T'H with the proposal of the German gov- ' L eminent leaving unanswered similar w pleas for peace from Austria-Hungary and Turkey. There is no Judication that the allies of Germany will hear R from him until the dominant factor 3 in the central alliance makes another . move unless one or both of them in . jj the meantime should plead anew, seek- . rtr u ing surrender independent of Ger- gil many. Turkey already virtually is out r of the war and a separate appeal from If the re-organized government at Con- M stantinople is looked for momentarily. SB |