The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-11-07

Press today.
Wash:r' -ov. 1.-The next AZ
to 90 expected to write
drama n the closing pages
or the ending developments
are rap. ..ng to a head. With
in the mex few days. 1t is deemed
possible In official quarters here that:
Austria will submit to armistice
terms, equivalent to unconditional
surrender.
2-The Versailles council will finish
Its armistice task and send surrender
terms forward to Germany.
Tina the kaiser may abdicate.
President Wilson labored late last
night and was astir early today on
the information from the Versailles
conference. There was reason to be-
Neve that armistice terms fully safe
guarding A~merican-allied supremacy
had about been framed.
Germany Cannot Choose.
That Germany cannot choose but
to accept them Is the thought here.
Though Htndenburg Is quoted as
having said Germany will never sur
render, President Wilson is working
n has been working for some time
past on the theory that she would
crumble and take what h was
handed.
The Austrian armistice situation 10
rapidly crystallizing. The outburst Of
popular uprising within the dual mon
archy plus the Italian offensive have
long since assured that Austria will
yield fully. Her acceptance Of armis-
tice terms is only a matter Of a brief
time.
AS for the kaiser's abdication in the
next few days, there Is some uncer-
tainty. The matter has been discussed
freely both officially and among the
people OF Germany. according to press
reports. The kaiser appears. however.
to be clinging to the last forelorn hopes.
hough 1t is foreseen here that he must
go ere long.
End Coming Fast.
The state and war departments and
the White House still maintained sill
ence as to what is actually developing
at Versailles There is a prospect that
this silence will be shattered. however,
either at Versailles or here before Mon
day night.
Now that affairs are coming to a head
1t may be said that the president and
his closest advisers have foreseen ever
since Germany started peace overtures
that the end was coming fast. Turkish
and Austrian disappearance from the
war in exactly the manner as now
recorded. was anticipated. 1t may be-
added that the president acted with
this practical certainty in mind and
with the prospect that Germany, thus
deserted would have to yield to the
allied American terms Of surrender.
P~rolonsation Not Expected.
The reaction Of the nation to the
German proposals made the presidents
negotiations rather more circuitous
than they might have otherwise have
been, but as authorities here sense the
situation. the world Is now adjusting
itself to the idea Of an early peace with
punishment for Germany. not proloE-
CATION Of the struggle for evenge.
There Is, Of course. a possibility that
Germany will attempt a desperate
eleventh hour renewment OF the war.
But it is held here that the German
people expectant Of peace and deserted
by their allies, will see to it that peace
Is obtained quickly. 1t Is felt there
| "a be no railying Of Germany at this
stage.
The naval section Of the armistice
| terms to be given. Germany was in pos
| session Of this government today. No
announcement Of their contents was
| made but assurance was given by high
| officials hat every safeguard had
been taken in these terms and that
they would meet the requirements of
every prudent man" so that travel
| will be safe On all the seas.
Whether occupation Of the German
| fleet was made q temporary or perma-
nent condition was not stated. But 1t
| was suggested that a question such as
final possession Of the submarine or
| grand fleet would rest with the peace
conference.