VIEWS IN AMERICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14735, 15 October 1918, Page 5

VIEWS IN AMERICA.

UNCONDITTON A I, SURRENDER REQUIRED. (Australlaii and ,N%7.. Cable Association,] (Reuter's Telegram.) '> WASHINGTON, October 13. Th© New York Times' Washingto: correspondent states that German pre posails for an armistice will not be ac i;epte.d. .. . , ... (Australian and N,Z. Cable Association.! . v . „- OTTA WA^y October. 13, >. The general tone .of the Hew .'. Yor" riefwspaper, comment on ,-> .the GcrmaJ Note/ is .that Germany must tunn. ove her army, navy, and submarines,. to th> Allies as a. guarantee; pi good- faith. Th Allies do'nofc/ti'fini &Vi armistice hut tin conditional sUri'ende-rV ','' ' N^Y^ORlw October' 13./ Mr* Roosevelt,., 'coriimentihg on. the -. GSej* man Note, says: ''Germany .ought £0 ,l>{ : n*ade to. realise that<tlie United States, i in' the war to a finish, aiid will ape'ep nothing except the* peace of overwhelm ing victory. - Let us beat, t'he foe to lii: luiees and then dictate ' *•■• , • .Washington coin-qspondeihts- 'state tlla after, a canvass of official" circles it- car 'be asserted- that >th_ reply is snot5 not . regard cd as a frank arid straightfonv&a'd Note but is considered ' as cleverly worded- ir Order to indicate apparent agreerheiii with"' President Wilson's general- pain "*?i files. Rut the iNote leases details oper .'in a manner which might /i*ender v fijtih American and Allied awns. . ■"'"" '_„.-. v The official i text, has noj> yet been re ceived, but the text jlias been picked ir_ ,''}' wireless. . ,' / •'. :, .-.'-, ; ' . : Some v Washington authorities., say .ex ceptioM will be : taken to the pyoposa' lor a mixed commission.. They, also c< -n *ider the statement, that .the Ohancelloi is speaking. ,for : the • German peVpie , h . aeking m -.definiteness aiid siijeerity. > „ ■ ; . The. newspapers,- comment ing tlif German^, answer", point put.. that it- if difficult to /dejtepmine whether, the Note emanates fromrtlie -people or, the criminal Govonimen^ - '. ■•>■:<■■ '.wr- •-.■■'? One newspaper asks: ''What are tlxs credentials, of , the .voice' speak-iing'j" . arid adds: "Satisfactory credentials would -ha the announcement. of„the : abdication oi the Kaiser and the ren l unctatio*ri" v of succession by his discredited dynasty. < Ai present one can see a peace of ;jiistioe and victory, nearer than human prescience co-iild have foreseen a tf ew weeks r-nro." ■ .:■.■'. < ■*' The New York Tribune; 7 commenting, pays: "The Imperial' Gentian'. C46yiernmenfe returned, a dreaded answter, 'pretending', to* accept -whally- the President's conditions. Germ any*. does , not offfr 'to Surrender, "Why should she? We have not demaJidedr.it .!'".-. ._ -. . \ .(Rente*'*? Telegram.) ,- •■. WASHINGTON; October 14/The text of Germany's jreply 1 was perused-'- by '-Mi*. McAdoo; 'seoretafy. of ihe Treasury; who ■•said/i- -"What 1 tlie American Government demands, ' based op. President- Wilson's, messages and speeches, is unconditional surrender. If ihe text of the reply is authentic it means just tliat." - Officials comment on the- significant /fact that Germany's reply associates A*nstro-Hlingary> \biit oniits- Turkey; .The lmplicatlpni is that, -unless the message was \M*ritte!Jv ip urjiusualrsJiaste-. Turkey is no- longer Germany's ally.