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(TEXT OF GER5IAN
PEACE OVERTURE
I And Fourteen Points On Which Pres
ident Wilson Says Peace Through
out W orld Is Possible.
Amterdam, Oct. 6.—The text of the ,
note forwarded by the imperial chan- ;
cellor of' Germany, Prince Maximil- j
! ian, to President Wilson, through the
Swedish government follows:
“The German government requests J
the president of the United States to
take in hand the restoration of peace, I
! acquaint all the belligerent states of
I this request and invite them to send ;
j plenipotentiaries for the purpose of
opening negotiations.
“It accepts the program set forth |
j by the president of the United States ;
I in his message to congress on Janu- j
I ary 8 and in his later pronounce- j
j ments, especially his speech of Sep- j
j tember 27 as a basis for peace nego-,
tiations.
“With a view to avoiding further j
bloodshed the German government re-:
quests the immediate conclusion of an
armistice on land and water and in
the air.”
It is announced that Turkey will
take a similar step.
(By The Associated Press.)
President Wilson’s famous 14 prin
ciples were laid down i«n his address
j to congress on the 8th day of last
January. They were designated by
him ag “The program of the world’s
peace.” The 14 principles follow:
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 wa
ters, alike in peace andi in war. ex
cept as the seas may be closed in
whole or in part by international ac
tion for the enforcement of interna
tional covenants.
• 3. The removal, so far as possi
ble, of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade
conditions among ail the nations
consenting to tiie peace, and associat
ing themselves for its maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national armament will
reduce to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
5. 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 sov
ereignty the interests ot the popula
tion concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claim of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
G. The evacuation of all Russian
I territory and such a settlement of
all questions affecting Russia as will
secure the best and freest co-opeia
tion of the other nations of the world
in obtaining for her an unhampered
and unembarrassed opportunity for
the independent determination of
her own political development and
! national policy, and assure her of a
j sincere welcome into the society ot
! free nations under institutions of her
| own choosing; and, more than a wel
1 come, assistance also of every kind
! that she may need and may herself
! desire. The treatment accorded
j Russia by her sister nations in the
months to come will be the acid test
of their good will, of their comprehen
sion of her %needs as distinguished
from their own interests, and of their
intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restor
ed, without any attempt to limit the
sovereignty which she enjoys in com
mon 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 have themselves set and deter
mined for the government of their
relations with one another. Without
this healing act, the whole structure
and validity of international jaw is
forever impaired.
8. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re
stored, artd 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 righted, in order
that peace may once more .be made
secure in the interest of all.
9. A readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be affected along
clearly recognizable lines of national
ity.
10. The peoples of Austria-Hun
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safe-guarded and as
sured, should be accorded the freest
opportunities of autonomous devel
opment.
11. Rumania, 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 determined by
fiiendly counsel along historically es-]
tatliahed lines of allegiance and na-j
tionality; and international guaran
tees of the political and economic in
dependence and territorial integrity
ox the several Balkan states should
be entered into.
12. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
sured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalties which are now un
der Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security of life and an ab
solutely unmolested opportunity of
autonomous development, and the
Dardanelles should be permanently
opened as a free passage to the ships
and commerce of all nations, under
international guarantee.
13. An indepedent Polish state
should be erected which should in
clude the territories inhabited by in
' disputably Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and secure
access to the sea, and whose political
I and economic ^independence and terri
torial integrity should be guaranteed
by international covenant.
14. A general association of na
tions must be formed unler specific
covenants for the purpose of afford
ing mutual guarantee of political in
dependence and territorial integrity
to great and small states alike.
The public schools and picture
shows of Prescott have bean closed
by the order of the Board of Health
on account of the prevalence of the
Spanish “flu” in that city.
Dr. J. C. Geiger of the United
State public health service has re
commended the quarantining of all
boai'ding schools in the state where
the Spanish Influenza is epidemic.
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