Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-10-31
peace negotiations.
Disposal of Navy Unsettled


The article dealing with The DISPOSE.
ton of the German navy apparently
has not been completed and is still the
subject of discussion in the supreme
war council. The only suggestion con-
tanned in the tentative terms, reaching
the Mediterranean must be surrendered
and that one of every type of subma.
'rine now in the Teutonic navieS shall
be delivered over.
Great Britain is said to be insistent
that Germany shall be required to sur
render practically her entire high seas
fleet, and this is the proposal now be.
ing debated in the war council at Yer
saiiles. The attitude of presidnt Will
son toward this proposition never has
been disclosed.
There is no mention of TTelgoland or
the kiel canal in the terms SO far for.
warded, although it has been suggest.
s~trongholds should be delivered to the
allies as q guaranty against the re-.
newal of hostilities by the Huns
and as an earnest of good faith in
carrying out peace terms.
President in Close Touch
Inasmuch, however, as the terms re.
ceiyed in Washington are not repre-.
scented as complete and are outlined as
merely tentative. pending the receipt
or the opinion thereon of President
Wilson, 1t is expected the conditions of
an armistice eventually presented TO
Germany viii be much more compre
hensive.
The president has been in almost
constant cable communication with
Colonel House for the last 60 hours
terms between the allies and the Unit
ed States is rapidly coming to a head.
There is every reason to believe the
allies will be in position to commune
cate the armistice terms to Germany
within the next few days. unless Il
~postponement should be deemed adj
visable in view of considerations now.
Beginning to develop.
Austrian Plight Desperate
These considerations pertain to the
situation of Austria-Hungary and Tur-
key. n ottoman government is re,
ported to have asked eparate peace
terms from the allies; and Vienna, in
the note to the state department yes
terday clearly indicates a desire to get
out of the war as soon as possible,
independent of whatever course Berlin
may elect to pursue
The Austrians now are in a des,
parate plight, with the Italians de-
molishing their armies and taking
prisoners in, unprecedented numbers
while the Dual Monarchy is being con
sumed within by the daily mounting
flames of insurrection and revolution.
Some administrator officials are of
the opinion the president will send an
other note to Austria Of the character
he dispatched to Berlin when he re-
ferred 70 Teutonic peace proposals to
the allies. Iii any event, he will refer
the Austrian appeal for an immediate
and independent armistice to the allies,
including the Cze%cho-Slovaks council
and the Jugo-Slav committee, in con
fornlity with his notice to Vienna that
the Austrian subject n~ationalities must
be given independence.
1,00O,0 900 Allied Troops Released
With Austria and Turkey out of the
war, Germany will confront the choice |
of accepting the allied armistice terms,
however severe they nay be, or con-
tinuing the battle a while longer hem.
med in by enemies and amidst over
whelming odds. 1t is not doubted
h a peace terms imposed upon Austria
will provide for operation of allied
in that country against the
Germans. Peace with Turkey and
would release more than 1000.
900 allied troops, which could be mass
ed in Austria against Germany. In
such a situation Germany, it is believ-
ed, would hasten to capitulate.
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