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Show Versailles Conference Meets To Form A rmistice Terms ALLIES OF BERLKJ STRIVE TO DESET.T FAST SEJIOIJG SEP i , . f - ' ! By AhmIiM "Vase. LONDON, Oct. 29. Turkey haa in3cjuUndy preaentat. ' peaca proposal to the entente nations, accorciinf to a report from i Constantinople forwarded by the correspondent at Copenhagen, of ' ' the Exchange Telegraph company'. The negotiation are cxpecteif ; to end soon, k is added. ! : ' By Units! Press. ' i ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. Austria has sued for a separate 'peace. Turkey is reported to have done likewise. The oppressed nationalities of Austria the Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs ind .Bo 'hemians have demanded peace and their independence. Austria jhas sent word to President Wilson that she abides by his determination determi-nation to give Ihese separate nations what they want. -.- Hungary has completed a bloodless revolution and established " herself as a separate state, according to further advices today. ! Demoralization has struck the allies of Germany. Only the ikaiser's empire now appears to block the path of peace. The (Versailles conference, meeting today, is making the momentous (decisions which will determine the fate of Germany..- Austria-Hungary is virtually out of the war now,, leaving Ger-Imany Ger-Imany to fight it out alone, according to the almost unanimous view in diplomatic circles here today. Austria wants peace and intends to desert Germany if the allies will let her. This is the interpretation diplomats place on her appeal for an immediate armistice "without awaiting the result of other negotiations." - Semiofficial statements here today reported disorder and virtual revolution in Hungary. Maygar leaders are rousing their people to break from Vienna and gain the freedom from the Hapsburgs.V which they tried to get in 1848 when Austrian arms forced them hack into the empire. It is believed by diplomats here that Austria will be forced to turn over her railroads, as Bulgaria was, o permit allied use of them in transporting troops and supplies for possible use in an attack on Germany's eastern front. Meantime, America and her associates in the , war are driving ahead with their plans for a complete victory. Germany Isolated; Chaos May Follow By Associatsd Press. IX)NIX)N, Oct. 2. Austria's reply to President Wilson la viewed aa an unconditional surrender- Additional Intereat la given the note in view of tho effnet It will Inevitably havo on the position of Germany. "It removed." says the Telegraph, "any lingering doubt aa to tho total defeat de-feat of Germany, for which, besides Doing Do-ing a most grave military misfortune-it misfortune-it In vol ted ultimate crushing political defeat, ss It destroys the monstrous fabric known aa pan-Germanism." ' The f'hronicle Says: j "lt completes Isolation of Germany, which must be prepared to meet In-! In-! vasion from tbo Austrian side where I tho whole Italian army will be able to operate againat it." The I Hiily news likens tho chaos In Austria-Hungary to that In Russia, adding: " haos may soon follow tn Germ any." In the Echo da Paria Tho situation will not eloar until military defeat la acknowledged or Inflicted. It will draw in Its train the central empires including includ-ing Germany." All the writers agree that Count An-drassy An-drassy represents nobody and, therefore, there-fore, separata peace with Austria-Mun-gsry la absurd snd Impossible. "Tho democracies of the entente oaflt- maintain only one attitude: An armistice armis-tice first, and all their conditions of peace afterwards, but only afterwards." says 1' Homme I,lhre. UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY. ' The Journal aays: ' "There la a unique - opportunitv to lay down a reasonable basis for tho future edifice of central Kurope. Tho total dislocation of tbo Hspsburg monarchy threatens to , strengthen Germany by the addition of twelve million Germans and Austrian and as many Magyars. A center of ' gravity Is necessary in middle Kurope. This center can only be at Vienna or Berlin. What will happen If wo put Vienna and Berlin in the same Ael- met?" Armistice Terms To Be Presented By United Press. LONDON. Oct, 2. The tUpre saya It la Informed from authoritative sources that tho allied conference al paria soon will present to Germany the terms of an armistice, which. It I believed, will Include tho occupation of Mets, tho Krupp arsenal at Easen and other fortresees of tho enemy. It is believed in diplomatic circles thst the publication of tho allied sr-mlstlro'terms sr-mlstlro'terms will lead to hoisting of the white flsg of surrender by Los enemy force. |