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Show GEM IS Oil PUIS AND NEEDLES Cy William Philip Simms t United Press Staff Correspondent. VERSAIIXKS. Oct. !!. As. I1ip allied rhieftain path-l ered here 'today for the purine! of deli.H'ratitijr on termn of an ! armistice with (icrmany. the central powers seemed disintegrating under pressure from within and without. with-out. Marsha) Koch Is continuing his pressure pres-sure along the west front from Holland Hol-land to the Meuee. with the Huns giving giv-ing ground at ImjiortaM point. IHs-enuraged IHs-enuraged murmurings aeep out from Germany as Von Hindenhurg's whole scheme of retreat Is Imperiled. BERLIN ANXIOUS. Berlin Is hanging on the words which will emanate from Versailles. She will not have to wait long, aa a few days st most, sre deemed sufficient, one the formal sittings are under way. Koch and the silted generals are believed be-lieved to be resdy with the purely military mil-itary demands which will be necessary if Germany gete an armistice. Austria-Hungary Is considered aa already al-ready having ceased to exist as she was known before the war. Turkey is merely waiting to see what Germany will do before taking action. Germany herself ia In a political, condition con-dition scarcely lets chaotic than that ; of her two allies, i MOMENT IS COME.' j "Th allies' moment aas come." a ! high personage said to th .U nited Prss today , "Whether th war end In the neat few weeks or Is prolonged Indefinitely depends upon how tho ait ua turn ia bandied ban-died today. "Absolute unity is more important ,now than over, and every atom of strength -must be put Into our next blow, both political and military.' " |