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Z A" THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 13, 1918. I- f GERMAN REPLY GIVEN TO PUBLIC INADVERTENTLY tJ Text Flashed Throughout the Country Before the Note Reached Wilson or the State Department. By Associated Press. Washington, Oct. 12. All official Washington was at a complete loss to understand the text of the note becoming public in this way. Neith er . the State department nor the Swiss legation, which is looking af ter German interests, had received the reply and it was very evident that it had been made public through a faux pas. There was. however, no attempt to dispute ns authenticity and the diplomats to whom the dispatch should have been sent could only ex press regret that the dispatch had been made public. Early this eve ring the newspaper correspondents were summoned by telephone to the office of the diplomatic mission where many diplomatic dispatches are received every day. An attache there gave out copies of the dispatch in the regular way bearing the usual distinguishing marks. It was at once flashed to the country. Blunder Regretted. r When the high officials of the office learned that the dispatch had been made public their distress and regret was almost boundless, much as they were gratified by its appar ent contents. The contents of the dispatch were at once communicated to President Wilson in New York and to Sec retary Lansing here. It is very probable that the text of the official communication may .differ in some respects as to verbi age from the unofficial copy given out tonight, but it is regarded as highly improbable that it will show any substantial differences. 1 At first reading, the text would seem to answer in a manner which .might lead to peace all the ques tions asked of Chancellor Maximil ian in his inquiry which was sent as an answer to the German peace note received here last Monday. .In this inquiry the president de clared he would not propose an armistice while troops of the cen tral powers remained on invaded soil; he asked whether Prince Max imilian accepted the terms of peace as laid down or merely wanted to discuss them "as a basis for nego tiation," and finally he asked wheth er the chancellor merely represent ed the militarists who have been conducting the war. Door to Peace Still Open. These inquiries the German gove erryment seems to answer, in a man ner which at least has not closed the door to peace. The evacutation of invaded territory pending declar ation of an armistice the answer ac cepts; it says the terms of peace are accepted and makes no further mention of a ' basis for negotiation" and declared the chancellor was speaking for the German govern ment as recently reconstituted and this German people as well," ' . I this one point which appeared to PRESIDENT WILSON'S PROGRAM OF WORLD PEACE STATED IN 14 TERMS BEFORE CONGRESS JANUARY 8 "A Real Bargain We All Enjoy" THREE REAL ONES FOR MONDAY 1. A Harrington Up right, nice case, for $65 2. One Beautiful Steger, walnut case, a $400 value, for.. $199 3. Regent, in pretty mahogany case, not a mark on it, in fact a $400 new piano, $259 f We Save You Money 1. Open covenants of peace, open ly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international under standing of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of in ternational covenants. 3. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all natiojis coir senting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. 4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point con sistent with domestic safety. 5. A free, open minded and abso lutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such, questions of sovereignty the interests of the pop ulation concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. 6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an un hampered and unembarrassed op portunity for the "independent de termination of her own political de velopment and national policy and assure her of a sincere weicome into the society of free nations under in stitutions of her own choosing; and more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treat ment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own in terests and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. 7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and re stored without any attempt to limit the soverignty which she enjoyed in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they themeelves have set and de- their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of interna tional law is forever impaired. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions re stored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly 50 years, should be right ed, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the inter est of all. 9. Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of na tionality. 10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest op portunity of autonomous develop ment. 11. Roumania, Serbia and Monte negro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another de termined by friendly counsel along historically .established lines of al termined for the government oflegiance andationality; and inter national guarantees of the political and economic independence and ter ritorial integrity of the several Bal kan states should be entered into. 12. The Turkish portion of the present Otoman empire should be assured a secure soverignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be as sured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested op portunity of autonomous develop ment, and the Dardenelles should be permanently opened as a free pas sage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees. 13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should in clude the territories inhabited by indisputably. Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international coven ant. 14. A general association of na tioiio must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of af fording mutual guarantees of polit ical independence and territorial in egrity to great and small states alike. loom up in the text of the unoffi cial copy is whether Chancellor Maximilian and Foreign Secretary Solf can in reality represent the German people as the reply declares they do. President Wilson's esti mate, aid the estimate of the states men of the co-belligerents, on the safety of dealing with the heads of the German government have often been repeated. They have been de nounced as unworthy of trust, and not to be expected to keep promises. Whether President Wilson and the entente allies regard the government now headed by Maximilian and which has Solf for its secretary of state for foreign affairs, one which can speak under any circumstances for the German people and bind them to the peace terms which the allies will impose, remains to be seen. There was no official expres sion on that point in- Washington tonight in President Wilson's ab sence. Probably no one in the United States but he can give the answer. Reading through the phrases of the unofficial text every one here im mediately was struck with the ques tion of what must have happened in Germany recently to make such an answer possible. Turkey No Longer Hun Ally. London, Oct. 12. Germany's re ply to President Wilson apparently gives one statement of news. It as sociates Austria-Hungary, but not Turkey, with the German govern men. The inplication seems to be that unless the German secretary for foreign affairs has written the mes sage with unusual haste, Turkey is no longer Germany's ally. The phrase "to agree upon prac tical details of the application of these terms" is on its face a straight reply to President Wilson. It was not unexpected here, but is likely to be regarded with suspicion. Eng lish papers have said that a con ference based on such a formula may be considered by the Germans to mean an extended debate. Some of the most important Ger man papers, in latest quotations cabled from Holland, persist in us ing the word "compromise" with reference to the application of the president's principles. But the feeling in London is that it will be hard for the allied armies to hold their hand in the hour of seeming victory. "Unconditional surrender" is the watchword much more appealing to the British people in this hour than any commission to arrange for evacuation. Events in the past week, particularly the sinking of the Lein ster, have steeled British hearts against a compromise. There is a strong belief here, voiced even by the "compromising" papers, that there are yet two pow ers in Germany one power of the new government, the other of the army, and that it is not yet de cided which are supreme. Germany Deeply Impressed. Berne, Oct. 12. Respecting Ger many's reply to the United States, Berlin advices say that the great importance of the matter made it necessary to submit the document to the great reichstag committee and to the bundesrath before it was dispatched to the United States. The news that the German reply was written in an accommodating spirit has made a great impression everywhere, it is added. Automobile Stolen. The Home Casualty company, 682 Brandeis Theater building, reported to police, that sometime yesterday afternoon, it's Ford auto was taken from in front of the above address. HOBART M. 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"As regards the evacuation of oc cupied territory an agreement can be reached if it can be guaranteed that Belgium will not again become a war theater." In discussing President Wilson's response to Germany's peace note, the Frankfort Gazette asks whether the president demands the evacua tion of all the occupied territories, declaring that the result -of this would be the delivery ot those in the east to the bolsheviki. The Polish government, the Ga zette says, already has requested that the German tropps remain as a police force and thinks that with out doubt the Baltic provinces will do the same. Germans Will Welcome Opportunity to Get Rid Of Emperor William Paris, Oct. 12. The tendency is marked in certain German cir cles, says a dispatch from Geneva to the Temps, to represent the eventual fall of Emperor William as a concession which the Ger mans would be disposed to allow to the allies if they demanded it. Such talk, appears above all, the message adds, to be an at tempt to bring about an event which many Germans judge to be inevitable and even desirable. Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 12. Neutral travelers arriving here from Germany report that ru mors that Emperor William may abdicate appear to take greater consistency day by day. The ar rivals add that the unpopularity of the German crown prince has considerably increased in Germany. Hunger Hastening Fall of Bolshevik Regime in Russia Stockholm, Friday, Oct. 11. Hunger is hastening the downfall of the bolshevik regime in Russia far more than the feeble and disor ganized efforts of the opposirrg po litical parties. The political strife in the isolated soviet republic is now becoming a pitched battle fdr bread, in which all political theories and theorists are lost and Moscow and Petrograd are regarded as monsters trying to steal the meager food sup ply of the rural districts. On the eve of its first anniversary the bolshevik dictatorship of the proletariat faces the most terrible famine in modern history and the final test has come of the ability of soviet arms to maintain what Nik olai Lenine, the bolshevik premier, calls "organized hunger." British Freight Ship Chased by Submarine Off American Coast An AtlantJc Port, Oct. 12. A big British freight steamship which ar rived here this afternoon reported having been chased early today by a U-boat not far from this port. The captain of the freighter sighted the submarine on the sur face at a distance from his ship and immediately ordered full speed ahead, maintaining 18 knots for more than an hour before the Ger mans gave up the pursuit. Owing to the distance between the vessels, he said, no shots were fired. Congratulates Belgium. Tokio, Oct. 12. (By Associated Press.) 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It was expected, however, that the news would not reach the men in the advanced positions, or even those some distance behind the ex treme front, before morning and perhaps late in the day at some few positions. Every signal corps wire was util ized to spread the news and run ners were detailed to supplement this means of communication. SECOND U.S.ARMY NOW IN ACTION AGAINST ENEMY New Force Under Command of General Bullard ; General Liggett Leads First Army. By Associated Press. With the American Army North west of Verdun, Oct. 12. The sec ond Americaa army came into being today and began operations. It is under command of Maj.-Gen. Rob ert L. Bullard. The first army, which has been in existence formally since August, is now under command of Maj-Gcn. Hunter Liggett. General Pershing assumes command of the group of armies. Votizieres, which is now occupied by the French, is burning, as well as Chesteres and Brieulles. Explosions of great violence have taken place in Romagne and Dun. North of the American line, fires contiue to break out at various points which cannot be attributed to artillery fire. The unfavorable weather condi tions slowed up aerial operations, but Lieutenants Thomas J. Aber nethy of West Pembroke, Me.; K. L. Porter of Dowagiac, Mich., and Francis M, Simonds of New York, got a plane near Romagne. One American airman escaped from sev en enemy machines which attacked him. The day was quieter, generally speaking, than any since the begin ning of the offensive. The left wing did not attempt any renewal of the attack, confining its activities to patrolling through the Argonne cen ter. The resistance of the Germans opposing this part of the American line was especially strong with ma chine guns. Everywhere there was much artillery fire, but a threatened counter-attack by the Germans did not materialize. Court Prolongs Recess. Washington, Oct. 12.Another week's recess was decided upon to day by the supreme court because of the continued spread of influ enza. Motions will be heard as usual Monday, but all cases assigned for argument next week will go over at least until the following week. CAPTURE OF POUAILOOMING (Continued from rare One.) back under the continuous pressure that Marshal Foch is applying. Douai, the most important of the northern French cities within the im mediate scope of the allied thrust, with the exception of the fallen Cambrai and the threatened Lille, seems about to pass into British hands. ' Lille itself, the greatest of the French manufacturing towns, is in none too secure a position. The wedge below Douai is threatening the whole line running north past Lille into Flanders and the Ger mans are palpably worried, also over the prospect of General Plum er's second British army and Ki Albert's Belgian forces on their right flank above Lille springing into renewed activity. In the south, General Petain s armies and tlie Americans under General Pershing have struck re newed heavy blows against the Ger man left in the great pocket formed by the German positions from Ver dun around the Laon curve to the sea. The Chemin Des Dames no longer stands as a bulwark for Laon in the Aisne region and to the est, in the Champagne, the French, by a swift advance of from three to four miles in a day, have entered Vouziers and carried their line so far north that the communications between the German northern arm ies and those east of the Cham pagne bid fair to be cut. On the .extreme allied right in the active battle area the American first army is keeping up its ham mering tactics and daily gaining more of the most valuable ground remaining to the Germans in north ern France that threatening their communication lines from the home soil through the Metz and Mont medy regions. Omaha Takes Steps to Aid Returned Disabled Yanks The Omaha Chamber of Com merce is taking s teps to provide employment and training for re turned disabled soldiers. This is done in response to a request from the information and education serv ice of the United States Depart ment of Labor. A survey will be made here looking to the employ ment of handicapped men in indus trial plants. I SHIP FOR SHIP, ;? DEMAND WHICH BRITONS MAKE German Yielding to Wilson'! Terms May Not Be Satis-' factory to England and I France. London, Oct. 12. Germany'! ceptance of President Wilson'i terms in no wise means (hat her ao ceptance will be met by Great Bri tain and France. The restoration of "ship for ship" from the German mercantile marine 'for all submar ine losses is a British principle which apparently is accepted by all the British people. Commenting on the reply the Sun day Observer says: "The first issue for us is the mari time question. 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