AMERICA’S REPLY TO GERMANY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3168, 2 December 1914, Page 71

AMERICA’S REPLY TO GERMANY.

“A DAY OF SETTLEMENT WILL GOME. (From Our Own Correspondent,) LONDON, October 9, Tho North German Gazette publishes President Wilson’s answer to the telegram sent to him by the German Emperor a month ago. The United States President says: — “ I have received your Majesty’s important communication and read it with the greatest interest. I feel much honoured that you should have applied to rno for an important judgment as the representative of a really disinterested nation which sincerely wishes to learn the truth. You will, I am sure, not expect me to say more. I pray to God that this war may soon be ended. A day of settlement will come, when I am convinced tho nations of Europe will unite to end their differences. Whoever has been in tho wrong will learn the sequel, and tho responsibility will fall on the guilty. “The nations of tho whole world are unanjmous in thinking that the final settlement must involve complete agreement. It would bo unwise and too early for a single nation disinterested in the present war —it would even be irreconcilable with its neutrality—to form or express an opinion. lam speaking so openly because I know you expect and wish that I should speak as ft friend to a friend, and because I am convinced that my reservation of judgment till tho termination of tho war, when all events and circumstances can be reviewed as a whole, must recommend itself to you as the true expression of sincere neutrality.”