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VOLUME XX.
AUSTRIA ASKS TRUCE ON
FIELD: TURKEY IS OUT
45,000 TEUTONS TAKEN;
VITTORIO, ASIAGO AND
SACILE ABE CAPTURED
PARIS, Oct. 31. —(4 P. M.) —Austrian prisoners now total more than
45,000. it was officially announced here this afternoon. Three hundred
.guns hare been captured and more than 100 villages liberated.
* *
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. —Fifteen Austrian divisions operating be
tween the Brenta and the Piave, on the Italian front, have had their retreat
cut off through the capture of the mountain pass of Vedal by Italian and
allied troops.
Official wireless dispatches from Rome today say the advantage is be
ing pressed to the utmost and that a crisis is near. Enemy losses are de
scribed as appalling.
Occupation of the valley of Quero by the Italian army corps operating
north of Vai Dobbiadene threatens Feltre, and exposes the Austrians in the
Grappa region to a flanking movement which, it is said, will compel imme
diate retirement.
The Third Italian army on the Lower Piave is reported advancing stead
ily, in the face of desperate resistance.
In all, more than 1,000 square kilometers of Italian territory was re
conquered yesterday, and apparently the whole front is being driven north
ward. The dispatches flatly deny the Austrian claim that territory across
the Piave is being evacuated voluntarily.
♦ ♦ *
VIENNA, Wednesday. Oct. 30. —Today's official statement reads:
• Southeastern theater: Tjie.^stfrn wing u£ our forces is ajamating Serbia
snd already has completed the recrossing to the northern bank of the Dan
ube. Our rearward march toward the Fave and the Drina continues accord
ing to plan. The enemy follows nowhere. The rear guard of our Albanian
* torces has only had to repulse isolated bands.”
♦ ♦ *
LONDON, Oct. 31.—The entire Italian front is ablaze, a Central News
dispatch from Rome says. All the Italian armies now are in action.
z|e afe
ROME, Oct. 31.—Italian troops have entered Sacile, the war office an-
* nounced today.
• Thousands of additional prisoners have been taken. *
"We have reached'Fravalie, Ursago, Gairina and Oderzo,” the state
ment said •
•'We have entered Sacile. • Asiago has been evacuated.
"Thousands have been taken prisoner and we have captured many guns
and liberated numerous towns.
“We carried Pone di Piave.”
AUSTRIANARMIES
IN ITALY FACING
MAJOR DISASTER
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE. Oct. 31.—The French and Brit-
Uu attacked this morning in tne direc*
t.on of Ghent. The battle is reported
to be going well.
The antes were last reported about
four miles west of Ghent, which is the
principal Belgian railway base remain
ing in German hands west of Brussels
Antwerp.
NEW YOKE. Oct. 31. —(Summary or
..uropeau Gabies IO the Associated
I*.ess./ —Disaster thiealeus the Austlu
lluasarian arm.es trom the s»tei\ io to
... Ad..alio as Uiey retreat lloat Ital
ian territory. All the Italian armies
uuw have entered the great oftens*ve
against the Austrians and tne lilted
uuops ate advancing rapidly aiong the
entire irunt from Garda to the
Adriatic.
*. r ighting activity on .he western front
remains at a virtual standstill. There
" nave been only isolated actions at sev
eral points.
Shattered by the irresistible rd van?®
of the Italians. B rlUi> h and F:e:i< h
across me I’iave. 'the Austrians are
ileeing rapidly across the plains of east
ern Venetia toward the line of isonzo, •
from which they advance! one year ago.
American troops are participating :n
the adv :m- •• ■ the Itali c tenth army,
which already has reached the outskirts
of Sacile. 15 miles east of the I'iave.
The lotal of Austrian prisoners is ap
proaciiing 49,®<V.
Pace Great Ditficultie-i
Apparently the Austria*! forces which
were alone the Piave wrill have great
difficulty in reaching the hills eat t of
me Ironxo. They have been separated
from the armien in the mountain-5 west
of the Piave ami the allies already
threaten their rear from the region of
Vittorio. Along the lower Piave. the
Italian third army has cros. «•! ’hr
river and taken up the pursuit. In the •
• enter the Italians have taken (Mcrzo.
while further north they have advanc
ed beyond Vittorio in the direction of
llelluno.
Through Harrow ••Hallway”
.m across the plains over
p* th a 35 miles l«etwe®n the Piave and the
Isonzo, the Austrians rush backward:
as through a narrow hallway, walked
In on the north by the f'arr.ic Alps
and on the south by the Adriatic. From
the manner in which the allies have
driven in their wedge east o' the Piave.
it apparently is the intention to out
flank the Austrians on the north in the;
foothills of the Alps and crush them
trom both the north and the west.
The situation of the Austrians guard
ing tne Trentino pass along the front
- from the west of Lake Garda to the
Piave also is becoming sewoim. Re
tween the Brenta and th® Piave the ■
fifteen Austrian divisions operating
there have been cut off by the capture)
nf Vadal pass. Elsewhere on this front
she Austrians must retreat northward
through the Alps with the Italians.l
British and French pressing hard at !
their heels. Ts. as reported, the I tai-,
ans ar® attacking from Steltvo south- '
•vard to Lake Garda as well as eastward
front th" lake the allies h’t g
t ’he familiar, pinedr movement it- the
Trent! no.
Austrian troops also are retiring from
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Full Associated Press Service
OHIO TROOPS ARE
IN CONTACT WITH
FLEEING AUSTRIANS
WITH THE~ITALiAN ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. Oct. 31.—General Treat’s
Ohio troops are in contact with the
Austrians east of the Piave.
AMI Hit AN AIRMEN DOWNED
21 HUN PLANES WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.—Heavy artil
lery fire on the American front east
of the Meuse and destruction of 21 en
emy airplanes Wednesday, was reported
ty Get eral Pershing today.
"On the Verdun front the day was
marked by heavy artillery fire east of
the Meuse.” said Wednesday evening's
communique. "An enemy raid on our
lities east of Beaumont was repulsed.
Patrols were again active and brought
in prisoners.
"Ou: putsui. , .1 : . s operating on
the frent of flic first army shot down
21 Meitf ; .rpi a and two observation
balloo.is. Two or our machines are
missing."
AMERICANS OF 3352 ND
AIDING iN ITALIAN DRIVE
KOML, oct. 3C. —(Night. > —American
troops, composed of tin Three Hundred
..nd Thirty-second regiment, are co-oper
ating with the Italians, British and
French in the lighting em t of the Piave,
'it was announced by the Italian war of
tice tonight.
Austrian prisoners since Thursday,
October 24, total 53,000, including 802
officers.
“"ur offensive extended southward
erday (Tuesday*, trom the middle
Pfave.’’ the comruumque said.
“A third army has now entered the
battle. On the front front Uretna to
the sea three-fourths of the. Italian
armv ar® ante tlghting in comradeship
with r gallar t French division and the
young and daring fhree Hundred and
Thirty-second American infantry regi
ment.
•Between the Brenta and the Pivve.
.♦he bitter ; ex‘stance of the enemy, aid
ed • v tresh reserves, has for six days
m-i<’i *he struggle particularly fierce.
♦
inc io our pressur® and we re ove--
oming - ;■•••'•'< lines of resistance.
"In the Grappa re-ticn our fou-'h armv
yisterd iv gained advantage in the region
. Mont Pert’.-.i tr.d <'<>' d-1 OraO.
, "Astride the Piave we have reached
the outskirts of Qttero, wrested 'Seguxi
no from the en< my and carried the
• heights of Mont <*'ozcn
••W« occupied the defile of Foliina,
rea< ■ ■<! Vittorio . nd are fighting north
: of t'onegliano.
”We established bridgeheads oi. the
Monticano. passed beyond the Connglia
’ no-i'Merzo road and crossed ‘.he Piave
at San l>on.i di Piave and east of Zen
son.
"Four hostile planes and one balloon
were brought down.
**We have taken prisoners since Oc
tober 21, R rt 2 officers and 32f!93 men and
i have captured several hundred guns.
"In Albania wc occupied San Gio
vanni di Medua and are advancing to
! word Scutari ”
YMERK’AXS IX ITALY
TRAINED AT CANID SHERMAN
WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.—The Three
■ Hundred and Thirty-second infantry,
.mentioned in dispatches as participating
in the great offensive on the Italian
front, trained at Vamp Sherman, O. ■
Thev are command®'! b’ Major Charles )
I G. Treat.
APPEAL TO PEOPLE
OF CITIES TO HELP
FARMERS IN FIELD
Following up the recent appeal to
! Georgia farmers to plant an increased
; acreage of wheat and other small grains,
I the State Council of Defense on Thurs-
I day issued a bulletin declaring that the
1 labor shortage has made it necessary for
farmers in every community to co-oper
ate with one another in clearing up
harvested cotton and corn to prepare the
fields for winter grain, and urging the
people in the towms to assist the far
mers by working in the fields. It is also
suggested that every farm tractor should
be kept continuously at work to its
maximum capacity. The information and
suggestions contained in the bulletin are
regarded by Governor Dorsey as being
of the utmost importance. The bulletin
follows:
“The State Council of Defense is in
receipt of rather disquieting information
as to the acreage which is going to be
planted in wheat in this state this fall
Never has the need for increased wheat
production been more acute. The de
mand for food will be heavier than ever
in 1919. Military conditions will not
alter this fact at all.
“In the next six weeks Georgia must
plant an increased acreage in wheat if
it can be done by any possible means.
This means that every available agency
must be put to work. Corn and cotton
are reported in the fields yet at some
r'-QWT These crops must be removed
ani the land put into shape for cultiva
tion. People living in towns and villa
ges must co-operate in every way possi
ble with the farmers to harvest what
crops are already made. These crops
must be removed from the fields and
p.ut into storage. All the labor that can
possibly be spared should be sent to the
farms for the next 30 days to plant as
large an acreage of wheat and oats as
possible.
'lt may be necessary to organize some
help in various towns and villages to
accomplish this purpose. The demand for
iV&r grows marg pAit.-aud.
its a large exTent tnis problem must be
met and solved locally.
• “County councils of defense should
have a careful survey of the situation
in their counties and help in every way
possible. The number of tractors in each
county should be ascertained by the lo
cal county council of defense and should
be put to work as far as possible. Pri
vate owners of tractors, if requested,
we feel sure will help in every possible
manner so as to substitute this labor
sating machinery for farm help. Far
mers in every community should en
deavor to get together and as far as pos
sible help each other and to use all the
available tractors in the state, both in
plowing and in harrowing.
“This is a vital need in Georgia to
day and we hope very much that the
people of the state will respond to this
appeal.
"An appeal signed by the governor of
the state, the commissioner of agricul-
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DELIBERAWdS AT
VERSAILLES MEETING
I CLOTHED IN SECRECY
5 -
No Definite Announcements
I
; Will Be Made Until Armis
• tice Conference Comes Out
I With Full United Statement
o|t. 31.—Positive
! facts about the Versailles conference,,
i now straightening out war aims and
! armistice were clothed
■ in secrecy today.
The general understanding here is
that no definite announcements will be
made until the conference comes forth
: with a full, united statement of agree
ment on President Wilson’s fourteen
; points and, perhaps, simultaneously,
with armistice terms.
» Reports that the armistice terms al
ready had been sent to Germany caused
surprise here.
There is a growing feeling here that
there will be acceptance of the terms.
1 However, it is pointed out that there
i are three courses Germany may pur
sue when these terms come out, namely:
Three German Courses
1 First, reject them completely and con
i tinue the war.
Second, accept them and end the war.
Third, protest loudly and either try to
p’stir her people .fa'priws 16)1 war. of seek”
to bargain over terms.
The third course is one which many
here foresee as the most likely. Wheth
er her protestations would end in com
i promise or in German acceptance are
j questions only the future knows.
While the president has declared for
open door diplomacy, there are some
symptoms of applying the secret variety
to the Versailles session, though it is
assumed publicity will come eventually.
The reason for the present secrecy is
said to oe that the nations involved do
not want to forewarn Germany and give
I her a chance to prepare propaganda off
; setting the allied determinations.
Notes have been coming so thick and
i fast that even Secretary Lansing is
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I VARIOUS ARMISTICE
TERMS SUGGESTED
TO PARALYZE HUNS
PARIS, Oct. 31.—Deputy Boussenot.
member of the naval committee of the
chamber, urged today that the armistice
terms include:
Allied control of the U-boats.
Removal of all marine mines.
Occupation of Cuxhaven, Heligoland,
Pola and Cattaro.
Taking over all German tonnage- in
neutral ports at partial replacement of
the 10.000,000 tons of allied shipping
sunk by German submarines.
In an editorial discussing armistice
terms. L’lnformation suggests the fol
lowing conditions:
"Internationalization of the Bosphorus
and the Dardanelles.
“The occupation of enemy ports on
the Adriatic.
“The surrender of Austrian warships.
“The right to the use of Austrian war
ships.
"The right to usg Austro-Hungarian
railway lines.
“The evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine
and territories wrongly occupied in the
east and west.
“The surrender of arms, munitions
and submarines.
“The occupation of fortresses and
bridges along the Rhine and of Luxem
bourg and Fssen.
“The occupation of Kiel 'tnd Ham
burg.
“The removal of mines from territo
rial waters.
“The delivery, as a preliminary com
pensation for damages, of part of the
enemv merchant marine.
“The cessation of manufacturing for
war purnoses ’
Big U. S. Guns and
Planes Bombard Huns
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF VERDUN. Oct. 30.
LNoon.l —CB* the PressJ
Talcing advantage of a clear day, Afner
ican aerial bombers started out early
today and attacked various enemy mll
itnrv obiectives west of the Meuse.
The big American guns also were ac
tive bombarding cross-roads and rail
wav junctions far and wide within the
region of the previous bombardment of
objectives behind the enemy lines.
Daily Demonstrations
Against Kaiser Held
GENEVA. Oct. 31. —Demonstrations
against the kaiser are being staged daily
throughout Germany, according to ad
vices received today.
Speaking Sunday at the Schumann
circus, Dr. Haase, minority Socialist
leader, violently assailed Wilhelm, while
his audience wildly cheered.
Frequent demands are made for ab
dication of the whole Hohenzollern fam
ily.
OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT
AGREES 10 ARMISTIGE
AS PLANNED BI ALLIES
LONDON, Oct. 31. —The Austrian commander on the Italian front has
applied to General Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, for an armistice,
the Exchange Telegraph company states.
The application, the newspaper adds, has been forwarded to the Ver
sailles conference.
LONDON, Oct. 31.—1 P. M. — (By the Associated Press.) —Turkey has
agreed to an armistice.
Turkey has surrendered unconditionally.
The British government, Reuter’s Limited says, today received definite
proposals of peace from Turkey.
Reuter’s agency has been informed that Great Britain has officially re
ceived definite peace proposals from Turkey which are regarded as tanta
mount to unconditional surrender.
' The Turkish armistice took effect at noon today.
The actual terms of Turkey’s peace proposals had not yet reached Lon
don in the early afternoon.
LONDON, Oct. 31. —British representatives concluded an armistice with
Turkey at Salonika at noon today, according to authoritative information
received here.
The terms are said to include free passage of the Dardanelles and to be
such that it will be impossible for Turkey to resume hostilities. Turkey is
nus definitely out of the -war. •
Turkey approached Great Britain for the purpose of bringing about an
early separate peace. The armistice was the result.
The British officials, it was stated, on high authority, had been expect
ing Turkey to surrender on the battlefield. .
/
PARIS, Oct. 31.—Communication between Agram and Fiume and
Budapest and Vienna has been totally interrupted. The Czecho-Slovaks
have cut the railroad between Berlin and Vienna near Bodenbach, and Ger
man trains can go only as far as Schnadau, according to a Zurich dispatten
to the Journal.
Fiume is the principal seaport of Hungary. Agram is the capital of
Croatia and Slavonia, and is situated near the Save river, 75 miles inland.
Bodenbach, where the railroad between Berlin and Vienna has been cut, is
a town in Bohemia near the Saxon frontier, and is situated on the Elbe
river.
AUSTRIA FORCED .
TO FIGHT FOR LIFE,
IF ANY IS LEFT
BY J. W. T. MASON
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—T0 what ex
tent the crumbling Hapsburg empire is
I* repared to resist on its own soil be
lore accepting the demand of the dem
ocratic nations for unconditional sur
render will be made known within a
tew days.
The withdrawal of the Austro-Hun
garian armies from all ocupied terri
tory, which has been ordered by the
Vienna government, should permit the
dual monarchy to form its lines afresh
along its own frontier by the first of
next week if the high army command
follows the frantic directions of the
civilian rulers.
Thereafter what is left of Austro-
Hungary will have definitely abandon
ed all thought of conquest, and, If it
continues the war, will be fighting sole
ly against terms of unconditional sur
render.
The ability of the Hapsburg armies
to prolong the struggle even for seif
defense, is highly doubtful. The dis
integrating forces now at work within
the empire already made self-preserva
tion impossible.
Although Austro-Hungary continues
to be thought of as one country, it is
verv doubtful whether at this moment
trie’ authorities at Vienna are the de
facto government of the Hapsburg
empire, or indeed whether a Hapsburg
empire now exists ;n anything but
name.
These matters will become clearer
when the troops of the dual monareny
are behind their own boundary after
abandoning Poland, Serbia and Italy. If
a strong defensive can still be made !
under the Hapsburg nanner, the war
in southern Europe will have to lie car
ried well into the enemy’s territory.
But if lovaltv to the imperial house
has vanished with the defeat of the
imperial armies, it will not be possible
for Karl to inspire his troops to con
tinue the strurrle for r. vanished sov
ereignty. In that event November
should see Austro-Hungary out of the
wer and Germany isolated against the
world.
40,000 German Soldiers
Reported in Revolt
STOCKHOLM. Oct. 31.—Forty thou
sand German soldiers are reported to
have revolted in the Ekaterineslav dis
trict. 250 miles northeast of Odessa.
They are said to have shot their officers
and to be marching on Khat kofi. waving
red dags.
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NUMBER 115.
FOCH’S TRUCE TERMS
REACH BERLIN, REPORT
COPENHAGEN. Oct. 3 k—Marshal
Foch’s armistice terms reached Berlin
on Tuesday night, it is declared by the
Vossische Zeitung.
KAISER NOT OPPOSED
TO EFORM CHANGES
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 31.—Request was
made by the Socialist members of the
lower house of the German reichstag on
i Tuesday that the ministry obtain the
• : emperor’s consent to a change In the
' article of the constitution which gives
' him the right to make war and peace.
Uite of the secretaries announced in the
house on Wednesday that he had been
authorized to declare that the emperor
it. nowise opposed the change.
——— •
A Copenhagen dispatch announced
on October 17 that Germany’s federal
council had accepted a proposed amend
ment to the constitution, making it im
perative that the consent of the federal
council and tne reichstag be given be
fore a declaration of war to be made in
tne empire's name except in cases of in
vasion or attacks on the coast. Another
amendment to the constitution placed
the power of the making of treaties of
yeace and treaties with foreign states
on the federal council and the reichstag.
Prince Maximilian, the imperial chan
cellor, announced in the reichstag on Oc
tober 22 that a bill -had been prepared
to become effective when the project for
a league of nations should become op
erative. It is probable that the fore
going dispatch refers to some new de
velopment in the effort being made to
deprive the emperor of powers whrJi he
has held hitherto.
NO INFORMATION HERE
ABOUT ARMtoTICE TERMS
WASHINGION, Oct. 31.—N0 inrss
niation hau reached Washington todaZ
through either official or
channels to indicate that the Ajuertcaii
and allieu military representatives ra
France had completed their work of
Irani.ng terms upon which Germany
inignt be granted an armistice. It was
i ssutned the report oi the arrival of
Marshal Foch’s terms at Berlin Tuesday
referred to in a Copenhagen dispatch,
quoting tne Berlin Vossische Zeitung,
uus based upon press uispatcacs of
Tuesday from London purporting to
otul.ne wiiat would be demanded of
Germany.
The note, addressed to Ambassador
Riano, follows;
"I did not fail to lay before the
president the note which you addressed
hint on the 14th instant, and handed to
me on that dale.
“Acting under the instructions of
jour government you inclosed with
tiiat note the tex of a communication
received b>’ the minister for fore gn.
.■ffairs of Spain, from the charge d’af
faires of Turkey at Madrid on October
12, in which the good offices of the gov
ernment of Spain were sought to bring
to the attention of the president the
request o ithe imperial Ottoman gov
ernment that he take upon himself the
task of the re-establishment of peace,
and that he notify all belligerent states
of the request, and invite them to dele
gate plenipotentiaries to initiate nego
tiations. the imperial Ottoman govern
ment accepting as a basis 4’or the neg<>-
tiation the program laid down by the
president in his message to congress of
January 8. 1918, and in his subsequent
declarations, especially his speech of
September 27. It is further requested
■by the imperial Ottoman government
I that steps, be taken for the immediate-
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