Show ARMY I eI e OF EMPEROR r o v a I CHARLES NEARS t END Y E. E Universal Service L T Nov XO 2 In 1 In u the tho hands of or ono man tho Austrian commander m in er-in- in- in chief rests tho fate of the Austro army Ho lIo alono c eau can m it avert tho the greatest military sm of history tho the cutting to pic pieces cs or capture of throe three of ti u million men Eighty Eight thousand o of them already I limo havo been made prisoners and 1111 tho the bulk of tho Austrian artillery 1600 1000 lien heavy pieces is in ill allied hands ii i Along tho the whole mile front from front the tho southeastern edge edgo of oe then the Trentino to tho the Adriatic D Diaz avenging n legions are plunging ahead and everywhere e except in tho the Asiago region tho the steno scene of a n lifo life and death the 15 nr are in in wild flight lit J Tho The only way tho Iho Austrian generalissimo gener can cnn avert crt tho annihilation of ot otIS his IS armies Is la to accept unconditionally ally n o. o the allied torms They TheO I nr aro arci In his hla hands Diaz DIl lI sent nt them thorn to I him upon receipt from Versailles where all conferring powers subscribed d to them thorn Tho They aro based 5 upon President President dent Wilsons Wilson's fourteen principles t e Austrian Chief t In Fix rix 1 But tho Austrian commanders commander's position position tion Is unique In tho the annals of ot his his- I tor tory He Ile Is It a generalissimo without n n a government behind him Ills army Is virtually an nn army without a country coun coun- try tro For Hungary Austria nr Is no more His Us and their supreme war ar lord Charles II IT Is an nn emperor without an empire a n king it lt a n kingdom The only thing that Is la left to testify that thoro thero was as once a 1 dual monarchy monarch Is tho vcr very army staggering backward under Diaz blows For It contends Austrians and Ihm Hungarians Bohemians Magyars Inars Czech Czecho Sl Slavs o-Slavs and md Jugo Juso- slavs rolt s and and all 11 un- un ocr one uno command commana Behind thorn them In the swept revolt ept land for tor which they theO hays havo been fl fighting fighting fight fight- ht- ht ing InS the tho great racial 1 crime that th for forged ed them together tog has been avenged I The c colossal unnatural nm I amalgamation of or heterogeneous tribes has hns been ripped to pieces by bO those tribes themselves Race hatred Is hi aflame and each ench of ot tho nations In the army returning home will wilt find nd hal half a dozen other nations nl awaiting them thom the defenders with contempt and scorn Home nome Land Transformed d The home land which these soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers have have- been told for four tour years the they here ertl defending against tho the foreign foreign for tor eign foe has been turned Into a cauldron of ot fratricide by those within with with- 11 in The Tho great evolution c from the ty- ty tv t- rule of ot the minority to the tlc democratic control by the tho majority Is II under wa way Tho The great polyglot population population lation of ot the thc cut up Hapsburg empire is groping Its way ay toward freedom and nd tho the first step Is to assign as a n. place In h In the MIA nun Gun s fn tr nee Ilch 1 nf or th r TIn how that struggle will I-I I b bo be affected td t by the flooding of or the country by hundreds of t thousands of ot weary can hungry hungry hun hun- gry S and bitterly disappointed the next week will trill show To To whom shall tho the Austrian J commander com com- mandor mander turn tum for authority In accepting accept accept- lag ing f g Italy's surrender terms terms Tho The monarch monarch mon mon- arch to whom hom ho he has sworn fealty s. s hd d d defense to the death Is In hid hid- 4 somewhere In Hungary afraid l to face t. the r rebels bela at it home horns and the tho mutineers muti i at l the front But time timo Is II pressing pressing press pross- ing disaster stalks across the tho Venetian Venetian Vene Vene- tian dan plains across river after atter river and oVer o mountains hard on the heels of 01 the tho army without a L country r It Only Chance for Army rumor Is 15 revelling re amid th the chaos The latest Is that tho the armistice arme arm feUce has been signed Only tho the AUs- AUs gl trian n commander could sign n It and Imd It Itcan Itcan itcan can settle for the tho present only ono one thing the thing tho escape of or the arm army from utter destruction For what the national national na nn- council at Vienna ratifies might not be bo sanctioned by council at nt Budapest cst not to speak of ot tho the In Innumerable In- In numer numerable blo other Independent ent states states' arisen or arising overnight From Home Rome bulletins o of victory arc are coming coining In not a wor word Is said ld of ot a t cessation of ot hostilities duo due to Austrian surrender the Lillo of 01 Venolia Venetia Veno- Veno lia tia where tho the AustrIans AustrIans' last year r ar captured the Italian headquarters intact In Intact in- in tact with untold stores stoics of ot materials Is boin being g evacuated o b by tho the Austrians intact In addition to their own stores tho the Italians will wUl find Immense Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- Austrian trian additions there thero Tho Tagliamento river ri of or fate fato asit as asIt asIt It was called c during that disastrous Latin retreat last year Is within sight of ot the pursuers It is that same samo river of ot which It was then said laid with all nil the tho ponderous finality of ot armchair h strategists that If it the tho I Italians allans dont don't make a a. stand there the they are arc doomed Last Int Stand nt Th They y didn't mako make a I stand there They rolled back bad ever cyer westward across man many another river rl back ck to tho the PI o and across It and only there they stood and stood Ji o granite But for tho the fleeing army without a a. country tho the Tn lI may m well provo prove tho the river of ot fate Tho The Italians and their allies are arc approaching ap approaching ap- ap It with tho the swiftness of ot a winced winged vendetta Yesterday the they were still twenty milos from It This mornIng morn- morn morning Ing eleven miler separated them from tho the stream Lato Late this afternoon thc they stood six miles west of ot it By tonight the they aro believed cd to have hn reached and possibly crossed It For tho the the flight act across this stream Is like that of ot tho the Italians over ocr tho the Isonzo las last t fall bIt Americans the Americans the regiment mostly most most- lv ly men inert from Ohio Ohio are are In the tho fore foro of 01 r. r the pursuing army witnessing the tho greatest debacle of or the thc ago age |