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Show PERSHING CAPTURES STRONGHOLD: AUSTRIA 1CCEPT5 Enemy Government Is Now Ready to Start Negotiations Without Waiting Other Allies. Requests President to Begin Overtures With a View to Establishment Establish-ment of Armistice. By Universal Service. LONDON, Oct. 28. Kevolutiou-ary Kevolutiou-ary bands are driving the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian troops out of Montone-gro, Montone-gro, the correspondent of the Daily Has at The Hague learns from .fine una. The rebels have captured tir Niksic, Eerane, Scutari and Ricka. J The Austrian governor-general has ' left Cettinjo, the Montenegrin cap- WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S. While Germany's Ger-many's latest note to President Wilson "as delivered to the state department today through the Swiss legation, cable dispatches from Europe brought information infor-mation that the Austro-Hungartap government gov-ernment had caused another communication communica-tion to be dispatched to the president, asking that immediate negotiations for peace and an armistice be entered into without awaiting the results of the exchanges ex-changes with Germany. The Vienna government asserted that I ll adhered to the same point of view ex-Pressed ex-Pressed by the president in his last communication com-munication upon the rights of the Aus-tro-Hungarian peoples, especially those ot the Czccho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, anil requested that he begin overtures with the allied governments with a view to ending immediate hostilities on all Bistro-Hungarian fronts. NO RESPONSE TO GERMAN NOTE. The official text of the German note did not differ materially from the unoffl- I CW version as received by cable. No e'tlcial comment was forthcoming, but " Is known that no response will be n,arte at Present to the communication, whlch Is believed to have been dispatched with the primary intention of satisfying he German people that their government l not omitting any opportunity to forward for-ward the negotiations for an armistice tad peace. Regarding the renewed as-'uranco as-'uranco in the German note that the con-titutlonal con-titutlonal structure of the German goy- "nment has been and is, "being changed democratic lines, it is pointed out that ' of n!',11 ot ,Ms statement and the scope lift. ranges already niado or projected, "er all. are matters to he dealt with in section with peace and not In arrang-a,'mistlcc. arrang-a,'mistlcc. A strong disposition ' mS. ,'10C(I officially to yield to tho ap-rarent ap-rarent Intent of both German and Aus-25" Aus-25" negotiators to continue those two t '"tially different functions In one i'iase of the negotiations. TO SHOW AUSTRIA HAS MET DEMANDS. hi tl,c oasc o te Austrlan comnumjca V.i, ""1' sur!'osed to be on its wav to Wi "Kton through the medium of" the ll,,, y?'1 government, It also was noted 1,1-.; hc, effort was made to alum- thai JSm 5 compiled with the president s of ,1 f?r thc recognition of the rights 1 ai,, . -Mclio-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs tria 1, ""Passed nationalities in Aus-P'el'o Aus-P'el'o ,u.des not appear that thc corn-Won corn-Won '""epondonoe of these people has ass , uaranteed, and probahlv sufileleni loV n,ncc, m'lsl bo had on that point be-mittprf be-mittprf , Au,s'rian proposals will be trans-Ion trans-Ion i ,,c entente powers for subm'.s- rL ,h military. affeeiu115'1 ,of ,he w'do extent of the dissents dis-sents f'i,1 .ttle dual empire devclop-'raueht devclop-'raueht ','!" quarter are believed to he - .. llh greater possibilities in the som. L,Pre "urn in Germanv. and in is tlnl ia,1 rlarters the opinion freely "8li tl,at Emperor Charles fully erm. .i. he must submit to any 'noi-ie , the entento powers and KW, 1. .ose to Impose, and that at "re LLt ls seeking simplv in secure He I r5.' onerous and humiliating. Sarla,,. i be obliged to penult l lie Ilun-laoxl Ilun-laoxl , shift for themselves hi the sjjhfletllement If thev persist in the -aist movement already In full lial n;., , "'ere are intimations In ofii-I ofii-I ;.. garters that by no such moans can lil"l I''ars escape the assumption of -JspojvsJblUty for their share in the ' (Continued on Pcge Three.) AUSTRTA ACCEPTS ! TERMS OP WILSON (Continued from Page One.) war and for the acts of oppression they have practiced upon the helpless minor nationalities within the confines of Hungary Hun-gary and In the Balkans. The fact that Austria has anticipated Germany all through in the various peace I moves, without visibly exciting any re- J sentment at Berlin, Is taken to mean that the two are working in perfect harmony, j Indeed, it has been suggested that in her present disorganized and demoralized i condition Austria no longer Is an asset, but a distinct drain upon Germany from I the military point of view, and. conse- j quently, that even though intending to , continue the war on her own account. ; Germany would be quite willing to allow 1 Austria to drop out. provided she could be insured against attack from the en- ; tente forces on the south. Warning against any peace with Austria Aus-tria that would not give the allies free passage through that country to attack the Germans from the south' was sounded here today by Captain Vasile Stoica, now in Washington, who represented, the Rumanians Ru-manians of Austria-Hungary in the conference con-ference of oppressed nationalities last week at Philadelphia and who was wounded fighting against the Austrlans and Germans. Captain Stoica said that if immune from attack from the south, the Germans, by withdrawing to the natural defenses of the Rhine in the west, might be able to carry on the war several years, because be-cause on this shorter front the allied superiority of forces could not be used to full advantage. |