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Show GREAT TEUTONIC ALLIANCE RAPIDLY FALLING APART Breaking Up of Enemy Nations on Their Home Fronts More j Momentous Than Events in Main Theaters of Actual Battle Colossal Drama of Victory Being Brought to Climax. j (By The Associated Press) The great Teutonic alliance, which for four years has carried on the greatest war in history and often seemed to have almost achieved success, suc-cess, is tumbling to pieces. Bulgaria and Turkey have surrendered, Austria Aus-tria with anarchy reigning throughout tho klndom, is begging for peace, and Germany is anxiously awaiting the terms of the Allied nations. In fact news of the breaking up of tho enemy nations on their homo fronts is more momentous than even reports of the events in tho main theaters the-aters of actual battle. Turkey at Mercy of Allies Turkey has apparently given up everything, ev-erything, agreed to the opening of tho Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and thrown herself upon the mercy of tho Allies. In this phase of tho war the United States is not an active participant. partici-pant. This country has not boon at war with tho Ottoman empire. Entry of tho Black sea by British, French and Italian warships may be announced announc-ed at any time with the final act of the drama in that region of the world ' but a short distance away. Assistance to Rumania and to Russians in southern south-ern Russia is only ti matter of a brief period. Austrians Face Great Defeat Austrian armies fighting on Italian soil face a great military disaster for the rush of troops commanded by General Diaz has not been halted by Austrian military forces. Proposals made by plenipotentiaries from Vienna Vien-na have been referred to the inter-Allied inter-Allied war council by tho Italian commander com-mander but thc work of wiping out the stigma of the defeat of Caporetto has not been stopped. Fifteen Austrian divisions are reported re-ported to be trapped in the mountain sector between tho Brcnta and Piavo rivers, while tho Austrian forces between be-tween the sea and Belluno are In dire jjeril-of-bcinjj annihilated. Over fif- I ty thousand prisoners have been captured cap-tured by the Allies since the drive began. be-gan. - ; Seething Anarchy at Home At home Austria seems to be seething seeth-ing hot bed of anarchy. Railroads of the most vital importance have been cut, rioting of violent nature has oc-1 curred in many of the larger cities , and the imperial authorities at Fiume, j Prague and possibly other cities havo j given up control of the Slavs and Croatlans to the national committees. ! Germany seems to be virtually cut off from Austria by the action of the! Czechs in Bohemia. ) East of Courtrai, in Flanders, British Bri-tish and French forces have lorn asunder the German lines and have advanced on a wido front toward thc Scheldt. This movement threatens to outflank the German troops holding1 ihe canal from Eecloo to Zeebrugge, running to the northwestward ofj Ghent. If thc advance continues the j Germans will be compelled to abandon their positions north of Ghent to the Dutch frontier. I On the St. Fergeaux plateau north 1 of the Aisne and northwest of Ilethel, the French havo again advanced and the danger -to the Gorman lines running run-ning off to tho eastward is increased. East of the Argonnc forest General Pershing's American troops have ad-, vanced north of Grand Pre and have established themselves in the southern ) part of Loges wood. Along this front a heavy artillery duel is now being1 fought. j In Germany Ihe true state of affairs . Is, for the most part, unknown butj enough has been reported from neu- tral countries to indicate a crisis in, the history of the empire. Tho abdication abdi-cation of Emperor William is said to : bo imminent if it has not already taken tak-en place. ! From Paris comes a report that the terms of thc Allies will" bo known to Berlin today. |