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Show GERMAHY7S " LMEST DRIVE JOB PEACE Oilers to Evacunte 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. Germany's reply to President Wilson's inquiry, intercepted inter-cepted as it was being sent by ihe great wireless towers at Naueu and forwarded here Sal urday. night. October Octo-ber 11', in an official dispatch from France, declares Germany is ready to accept President Wilson's peace terms, evacuate the invaded territory as a proroquisilo to an armistice and 1 that the bid for peace represents the German people as well as the government. govern-ment. The text of the note follows: In reply lo the questions of ihe president of the 1'nited Stales of America. the German government hereby declares: . The Geiinan government has accepted ac-cepted Ihe terms laid down by President Presi-dent Wilson in bis address of January Janu-ary Sih and in his subsequent addresses ad-dresses ou the foundation of a permanent perma-nent peace of jusiice. Consequently, its object in entering into discuss'ons would be only lo agree upon practical details of the application of these terms. The German government believes' be-lieves' that Ihe governments of the powers associated with the government govern-ment of the United Slates also take the position taken by President Wilson Wil-son in his address. The German government, gov-ernment, in accordance with the Aus-tro-IIungarian government, for the purpose of bringing about an armi-slice, armi-slice, declares itself ready to comply with the propositions of the president in regard to evacuation. The Qerman government suggests that the president presi-dent may occasion the meeting of a mixed- commission for making the necessary arrangements concerning the evacuation. The present German government, which has undertaken the responsibility for this step toward peace, has been formed by conferences and in agreement with the great majority of the reichstag. The chancellor, chan-cellor, supported in all his actions by the will of this majority, speaks in the name of the German government and of the German people. (Signed) SOLF, State Secretary of Foreign Office. Berlin, October 12. 1918. |