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Show TEXT OF REPLY TO I GERMAN CHANCELLOR I v J ; U WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. President Wilson today answered Germany's peace proffer with a note declaring anew that there can be no peace with a Gorman government controlled by a military autocracy and no -thought of an armistice while German atrocities continue on land and sea. The text of the president's answer follows: "Sirs! . In reply to the communication communica-tion of the German government, dated the 12th instant, which you handed me today, I have the honor to request you to transmit the following answer: The unqualified acceptance by tho present German government and by a large majority of tho reichstag of the terms laid down by the president oof the United States of America In his address to the congress of the United States on the 8th of January, 1918, and in his, subsequent addresses justifies justi-fies tho president in making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communications of the German government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918. It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions con-ditions of an armistico arc matters which must bo left to tho judgment and advice of the military advisers of the government of tho United States and the allied governments, and tho president feels It his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory sat-isfactory safeguards and guarantees nf fhf innintfnnrinA nf ihn nrpspnt mili tary supremacy of tho armies of tho United States and the allies In the field. "He feels confident that he can safely safe-ly assume that this will also be the judgmont and decision of the allied governments. "He feels confident that he can safely safe-ly assume that this will also be tho judgment and decision of the allied governments. "The president feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the government gov-ernment of the United States nor, he is quite sure, the governments with which, the government of the United States Is associated as a belligerent will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany Ger-many continue the illegal and inhuman practices which they still persist in. "At the very time that the German government approaches the government govern-ment of the United States with proposals propos-als of peace, its submarines are engaged en-gaged in sinking passenger ships at sea, and not the ships alone, but the very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction, which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages if not destroyed, are bein'g stripped of all they contain, not only, but often of their very inhabitants. The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to a cessation of arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation spolia-tion and desolation aro being continued, contin-ued, which they justly look upon with horror and with burning hearts. "It is necessary, 'also, in order that there may be no possibility of misunderstanding, misun-derstanding, that the president should. very solemnly call the attention of 1 the government of Germany to the lan- ffi 1 guage and plain intent of ono of the H terms of peace which the German gov- tj ernment has now accepted. It is con- tained in the address of tho president I H delivered at Mount Vernon" on tho 4th U of July, last. "It is as follows: 'The destruction H H of every arbitrary power anywhere m IH that can separately, secretly and of its R H single choice disturb the peace of the n H world; or, if it cannot bo presently de- j! IH stroyed, at least Its reduction to virtual H "The power which has hitherto con- H IH trolled the German nation is of tho I H sort here described. It is within tho 1 H choice of the German nation to alter I H it. The president's words Just quoted 1 H naturally constitute a condition prcce- I H dent to peace', If peace is to come by B H the action of tho German people them- I H solves. The president feels bound to I H say that tho whole procesB of peace I H will, in his judgment, depend upon B H the definlteness and the satlBfaotory 9 H character of the guarantees which can I H be given in this fundamental matter. I H It is Indispensable that the govern- ? H ments associated against Germany I H should know beyond a peradventure Bj H with whom they are dealing. B H "The president will make a separata 1 H reply to the royal and Imperial gov g H ernment of Austria-Hungary. H "Accopt, sir, the renewed assurances K H of my high consideration. I H (Signed) "ROBERT LANSING." SJ H Mr. Frederick Oederlin, Charge d'af- aj H falrcs, ad interim, in charge of Gcr- jj H man interests in tho United States. m H on kK IH |