The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-10-28
ASKS ALLIES TO :
NAME THE TERMS
Germany, in Note toNWashing-
ton, Ayers Peoples Govern
ment Is in Control.
AUSTRIA CoNcILlAToRY
Gen. Ludendorff Resigns-En
emy Compelled to Abandon
Serre Disc Salient.

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Austria Hungary. close upon the
heels of Germany's request for allied
| armistice terms, replies to President
| Wilson's note Of Oct. 10 and declares
her readiness to negotiate a peace and
an immediate armistice on all the
Austrian fighting fronts.
The Austrian government also says
| 1t accepts all the views expressed by
the president. This would indi cate
that Austria is willing to have the
Czecho- Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs deter
I mine the measure Of independence they
desire fro.a the Hapsburg monarchy
but with the text of the reply not yet
received this point Is not clear.
Germany asks the allies to name the
terms for an armistice. A note to this
effect, the unofficial text Of which was
obtained yesterday by the Associated
Press, is now on its way to Washington
from Berlin, it Is reported. The note
is understood to call attention to the
far reaching changes made In the Ger
man constitutional structure and Is
said to aver that peoples govern
ment, which is in control Of the mill
tary powers of Germany, Is carrying
on the negotiations.
1t is understood the allies have de-
cided upon the terms to b. exacted
before hostilities are suspended, but
that these terms will not be announced
until the German note Is officially
made public.
Austria, too, has replied to President
Wilson. It Is understood thati her note
is couched In thes "mOst conciliatory
terms" but no intimation Of its text
has as yet been made public.
Gen. Ludendorff, who Sed Z, &tserman
armies in the big offensives of the
past spring and summer, has resigned.
German forces holding the sharp
salient between the Serre and the Disc
rivers in France have been compelled
to abandon their positions, which they
have obstinately held for the past
twelve days. The French armies on
either side of this salient launched q
blow on Saturday which flattened out
the angle in the enemy's front and
which may have a very 'efinite effect
on the German line eastward through
Rethel and the Argonne forest to the
Meuse river
1t may be that the Germans have
prepared lines further east on which
,cy are now retiring along the Serre-
Disc front, but they are not apparent
on the map. There are few. If any,
natural positions which will lend
themselves to defensive operations
west Of Vervins, south of which there
Is broken country. To the north Of
Vervins there are extensive forests,
which might be utilized as cover by
the enemy 1t Is reported that the
line is broken near Guise. If
this is a fact, the whole German line
south and north Of that city, Is in
danger.
Collapse of the enemy .ont there
would weaken the lines along the Aisne
1tGr Rethel. where the french ave
,een virtually held up for some time.
II the line of the Aisne gives way, the
Germans further east, around the Ar
yonne forest and nearer the Meuse.
must move their lines. it would seem.
In the neighborhood Of Valenciennes
he British are still fighting their way
ahead but their progress over the re-
tricted front between Normal forest
md the Scheldt is quite slow. Far
her north the enemy seems to have
established himself strongly behind the
and only local successes by
he allies are reported.
Gen. Allenby's forces in Palestine
,ave occupied Aleppo and appear to
,ave virtually completed the destruc-
ion of Turkish power in Syria. The |
way now Is open for a junction be-
ween the army Of Allenby and the one |
moving up the Tigris.