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Show Senator Lodge ' Denounces Note as Poorly Laid Trap WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, and ranking minority member of the foreign relations rela-tions committee, issued a statement during the day denouncing the German note as another poorly laid trap and reiterating his opinion that only one demand should be made by the president presi-dent "unconditional surrender." The belief that no trap will succeed was reiterated everywhere. Almost the one thing stated and repeated on authority au-thority is that there will bo no relaxation relaxa-tion of the great forward movement of the allied and American armfes nor any abstention from attack upon the retreating foe except upon the terms of the allied and American military leaders. Terms of evacuation, it is pointed out, necessarily would be virtually vir-tually tho terras of an armistico, and in the opinion of military men would include breaking of the German war machine as an armed force and the oc- cupation "by the Americans and the allies-of such strategic lines and strongholds as General Foch might deem necessary. |