OCR Text |
Show jZ? . jZ? JZ? JZ? JZ? J& JZ? & TDRKESDRRENDERS --UNGGNDfflGNALI-AND--ARMI STI eETlB SIGN E D DARDANELLES OPEN TO ALLIED FLEETS; ENEMY FORTS TO BE OCCUPIED By AuociaUd Prus. . LONDON, Oct. 31 (Via Montreal). Turkey has surrendered unconditionally. uncon-ditionally. By Auociilid Pras. LONDON, Oct. 31, 3:15 p. m. The Turkish armistice took effect at I noon today. " " " " v Th entir. Turkuh fore, which ha btoi opposing th British on th Tigris, ksu been captured, it was officially announced today, r By UniUd Pru. LONDON, Oct. 31. British representatives concluded an armistice with Turkey at Saloniki at noon today, accordinf to authoritative informati3n received here. The terms are said to include free passage of the Dardanelles and to be such that it will be impossible im-possible for Turkey to resume hostilities. Turkey ia thus definitely out of the war. Turkey had an army of 1.929.71 S men. In its navy were 39.000 men and 929 officers, giving a totaTliiilitary and naval strength of 1,969,645 men, . . By UniUd rm. LONDON, Oct. 31, 1:10 p. m. The Dardanelles are reported to have been opened at C:3o this morning. TERMS OF ARMISTICE ' v ' By United Preaa. -PAKIS. Oct. 31, 6:15 p. m. Terms of the Turkiah armiitke signed last night, include the following, it was officially announced this afternoon: Free passage of the Dardanelles for the allies fleets as far a! the Black sea. Occupation of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles forts. Immediate release of all allied war prisoners. -V ' By United Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. London cables that Turkey had agnj eiL to an armistice confirmed the general view here that she wouiy appeal direct to the allies and take what she was given provided the United States did not hurry its reply to the original note. TURKEY OUT; AUSTRIA NEXT. ' By United Preaa. Turkey la out of tha war. An armistice, which la a Id to effectually prevent Turkey from resamlnaT hoetlJitlea, waa concluded with British representatives in ftaJoptki at noon today. Auatrla-Hunftary, already tentatively split up into aeveral' Independent atataa ' by eerlea of revolutions and with anarchy spreading hourly throughout tha country. Is frantically aaek in peace. The A us trie ns officially declare they are voluntarily withdrawing their armla from occupied territories In Italy and the Balkans. With the Austrlrfn defenses split on a wide front et of the Piave, and Italian. British, Krnch and American troope pouring through tha gap, tha entire 176-mile front from Hwltzerland to tha Adriatic ta reported to have blaaed Into action today. Official reports state Austrian prisoners mow total ii.QM and that 306 guna have been captured. j Armistice With i Turks Is Signed j Sy Units a" Press. I-ONOO.V. Oct. It. Kir George Care, home secretary, announced In tha houae of' commons thia afternoon that Turkish plenipotentiaries arrived at stud roe eurly thia week and that Admiral Ad-miral ("althorpe alaned an armistice last night oa behalf of the allies. Muriros la a village on the island of Iemnoe. fifty miles west of the entrance en-trance to tha Dardanelles. Resume of Turks9 t i Activities in War j I Sy Associated Freest j Turkey, which now has been 1 j granted an armlntice, entered the war j in November. 1914. when she severed diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Brit-ain. Franca and K use la-Military la-Military opera t lone began agsinat Turkey on November ft. and Great Britain annexed the Island of Cyprua. Tur-key entered the war only a few daya afer the Germaa wars hi pa J Hrealau and Coeben had sought shelter In the Dardanelles, which waa at once blockaded by the allied fleet. In April, lata, allied troops were landed on the Gat If poll peninsula, but the campaign failed and the allied troops were withdrawn in December of the aame year. The Rrttlah began a campaign along the Tigria and Euphratea tivera In November. 1)4. They advanced to, within teas than 104 miles of Bagdad, but were defeated, retreated to Kut el-A mars, where they were later forced to surrender. Early In 117 tha British renewed the offensive in I Mesopotamia, and have continued It successfully ever since until now they are within a few miles of Mosul. Turkey aent armiea against the British In Kgypt and a si net tie ! Rues la ns In the Caucasus. Both campaigns cam-paigns had a, meaaure of eucoeaa at firat, but the all lea aoon drove the Turks hack beyond tha Turkish " 1 frontiers In Palestine tha allied ! drive under General A lien by resulted a few days age in tha capturV .of the important base of Aleppo. The F is- i slaa campaign in the Ca wen sue wit (Continued on ftage k.) " 1 $1J924JS23 WILL BE EXPENDED TO IMPROVE KEARNY y United Pr.ee. WASHINGTON, Oct. . Construction Con-struction of additional build Inn at Camp Kearny, Cal, la oroer to accommodate ac-commodate toos additional men, will be started st ence, the war department announced today. The coat la estimated st II.-114.111. II.-114.111. 1 Four two-atory barracks (or enlisted en-listed men and two barracks (or , . officer will be sdded to Camp , Travis, Tea., st 177,006, and s cold etorase plant le to be Installed at I rnjMArhnrtaJJS2i-M TURKEY AGREES TO SURRENDER TO ALLIES Contlnned from page 1.) rendered fruitless by the rise of the Bolshevik! to power. Kor several weeks after the United Htatw declared war on Uermany, Turkey Tur-key took no action, but oo April 21, 1117. aha severed diplomatic relations. However, there haa never been a declaration of war either by the United .States or Turkey. Berlin Receive Armistice Terms , By Associated Press. LOXIJON. Oct. ai. Marshal Foch's armistice terms arrived tn Berlin Tuesday Tues-day night, the Voaelsche Zeltung says it learns, according to an Kxchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. this year, his fall from power being regarded as a victory for the pan-Germans, pan-Germans, who opposed his "moderate" views regarding the war. Why Did Peace Fail In 1916? Hunt Ask By Aaeeelated Preea. AMSTERDAM. Oct tl. The Inter-parly Inter-parly committee of the relchsUs, the Uokal Anaelser of Berlin Bays it under-etamla, under-etamla, la debating the question of call Ins to account the alateamen reaponal-ble reaponal-ble for the failure of the German peace movementa late In 1910 and st the beginning' be-ginning' of 117. Terms Proposed By French' Deputy y United Praia. - I PARIS. Oct. II. -Deputy Bouaaenot, member of the naval committee of the chamber, urged today that the armistice armis-tice terms Include: Allied control of the U-boats I Removal of all marine mlnea. jccupatUm of Cuxtiaven, Heligoland, Tola and Cattaro, Taking over of all German tonnage In neutral porta aa partial replacement of the 10.000.000 tona of allied ahlpplng sunk by Oerman submarines. I Abdication of Kaiser, Demand y United Preee. j GENEVA, Oct. II. Demonalratione agalnat the kalaer are being ataged dully throughout Germany, according to advices received today. H peak Ine- Hunday at the Schumann rlrrua. lr. Ilaaae, minority Socialist leader, violently aaaalled Wllhelm while his audience wildly cheered. Frequent demanda are made (or abdication abdi-cation of the whole Hohenaollern family. Berlin BoaiU Of Air Victories Sly Aaeeelated Preea. BERLIN. Oct. 11 IVIa Iindon). I The .hooting down of flfly-elght hoi-tile hoi-tile airplanes yeaterday by German forree la reported by Germun army headquartere In today's official statement state-ment on aviation activities. Hun Paper Admits Collapse of Policy j y Associated Press. ! RASKL, Oct Jl. "The rout mental Dollry of the Oerman empire ha. col- i lanaed." says the Vorwaerts of Berlin. Ths Ilamburg-Liagdad line haa been , reduced lo the Jlamburg-Bodenbach road.' f Kuehlmann Hun ' Peace Table Man By United Press. rol'FN'HAfiKN. ct. Jl. Pr. Rich.; ard von Kuelilm-nn, former uerman ; secretary of foreign affairs, will be : one of GermMtiy'a representatives at I (h peace conference, tt ts autnorlta- ! tlvely slated In the Herlln Leok;il An sieger. Von Knehlmsnn heM the rank of anibaaaador to the Netherlands and' Turkey prior to hla appointment, , foreign "secretary In 1SI7. lie re- ; i |