The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-16
Turkey Is Granted an Armistice
on Terms That Mean Her
Absolute Surrender.
GERMANY is IN same FIX
lnter-AIlled War Council Determines
Conditions on Which She May
Cease Flehting-Austria, Bad
Iy Whipped on the Piave
Front, Begs for Peace.
BY EDWARD w. PiCKARD.
Turkey has given up.


Turkey has given up.
Not waiting for the result of armis-
tice and peace proposals made to the
entente allies through President Will
son, she made peace proposals to the
British government early in the week
which were considered in London as
tantamount to unconditional surren-
der. The armistice went into effect at
noon Thursday.
The request for an armistice was
carried to Admiral Calthorpe at Mu-
dros by General Townshend, released
by the Turks for the purpose. Regu-
larry accredited plenipotentiaries fol-
lowed, and after three days parleys
the armistice was signed. 1t Is both
military and naval In character, and
while the terms were not at once made
public, it was known that they includ-
ed free passage of the allied fleets
through the Dardanelles, occupation of
the Bosporus and the Dardanelles
forts, the immediate release and re-
turn of all allied prisoners of war,
and concessions that give the allies
complete military domination over
Turkey. The opening up Of the Oar
danelles leads to the expectation Of
an early battle between the allied
fleets and the German Black sea fleet
The latter includes a number Of pow
erful vessels of various types stolen
from Russia.
Turkey could not do much else than
surrender. She had fought her fight
and was really all done. General AL
lenby's great victories in Palestine and
the recent big advances of the British
expedition in Mesopotamia, together
with the collapse Of Bulgaria which
isolated her from her allies left her no
other course than complete submits
sion. The Greeks were on edge to be
permitted to march on Constantinople,
and the Bulgarians wanted to join in
such an enterprise, and there was riot
ing and threats of revolution in the
Turkish capital.
Latest news from Mesopotamia tells
of the capture of the entire Turkish
army on the Tigris.
The United States was not at war
with Turkey and so neminally has no
part in the peace negotiations; but 1t
has been taken for granted that this
country will at least be consulted in
the matter. Probably Colonel House,
now personally representing the presl-
dent at the councils at Versailles,
knows what Mr.. Wilson thinks about
Turkey, as well as about the rest of
the world and can tell the representa-
tives Of the entente governments. 1t
may be that in this matter the senate
will have no voice, as it intends to
have in making peace treaties with the
nations with which America is at war.
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The German government having sig
nified its full acceptance Of the allied
terms as basis of arrangements for a
cessation of hostilities, the inter-allied
supreme war tOullCll III fSISdllltS
spent most of the week settling upon
the terms of armistice that should be
imposed on the Huns. It was agreed
that these would be exceedingly dras-
tic. There was not the slightest dispo-
sition to leave to the Germans any
means of renewing hostilities If the
subsequent peace negotiations should
fall through. 1t was believed that the
terms would include evacuation of all
invaded territory within fixed
period; surrender Of all ordnance and
ammunition; withdrawal Of German
forces beyond the Rhine, and their de-
mobilization; surrender Of the frontier
fortresses; release of all allied prison
ers of war, German prisoners being
held to help in restoration Of devas-
tated territory; surrender of at least
q number of U-boats.