CANDID ADMISSION OF DEFEAT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 5

CANDID ADMISSION OF DEFEAT.

ALLIES ENTITLED TO FULL SURRENDER. PUNISHMENT~OF OUTLAWS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Oct. 14, 7.20 p.m.) London, Oct. 13. English diplomatic circles consider that Germany's reply eonstitxites a candid admission of defeat, and entitles! tl'o Allies to demand full and unconditi.nal surrender like that of Bulgaria. IS'i'yer in history has a great nation I climbed down so quickly and completely. It is pointed out that President Wilson's fourteen points Mere announced in January, 1918, and much has happened meanwhile, inched ing President [Wilson's declaration that his points are no longer sufficient to rehabilitate Germany in the eyes of an outraged world. Probably before granting an armistice the Allies will compel Germany to give guarantees that she will pay for her | manifold crimes on sea and land, and giv© up the perpetrators to trial and punishment.

It is' expected that the Allies will send a joint reply specifying the conditions on which they are willing to

grant an armistice