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


The articio dealing with the disposi.
ton Of the German navy apparently
has not been completed ana is SIM the
subject OF discussion In the supreme
war council. The only suggestion con.
tanned in the tentative terms, reaching
Washington is that an submarines in
the Mediterranean must be surrendered
s2,d thar one OF every type OF suhma,
r3Ne now IN the rSutanic navics shan
ae SeitvervA ever.
Great Britain is said 10 Ne insistent
that Germany shah he required 10 sur,
render practically her entire higi, seas
gleeE ana this is the proposal now he.
aFG debated IN The war council nj Yer.
%&atileS- The attitude of rresidnt WA,
SON toward this llropo~Iiou never has
been disclosed,
There IS no mention ot Ne}goGtnd or
the NIel canal in the terms SO far for.
w3rded, although 1t has been suggost
ed thar both these German naval
ssrongholds should he delivered 10 the
allies MS = guaranty against the re.
newal OF hesSnities by the Huns
and as an earnest OF good faith in
carrying out peace terms.
President in Close Touch
Inasmuch, however. rs the terms re-
oeived III Washington arc not repre.
scented as complete amt are outlined as
merely tentative, pending the receipt
of h opinion thereon of President
Wilson, it is expected the conditions of
an armistice eventually presented 10
Germany viii De much more compre.
hensive.
The president has been in almost
constant cable COMMUNICATION with
Colonel House for the last 60 hours
and it is believed the discussion OF the
terms between the allies and the Unit.
ed States is rapidly coming 10 a head.
There is every reason to believe the
allies will be III position to communi.
cate the armistice terms TO Germany
within the next few days. unless a
p|ostponement 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. The Ottoman government is re-
ported to have asked separate 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 q des-
parate plight, with the Italians de-
m%olishing 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 Teutontc 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 Czecho- Slovaks council
The Jugo-Slav committee, in con
formity with his notice to Vienna that
the Austrian subject n%ationalities must
be given independence.
100000 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 may be, or CON
tinuing the battle a while longer hem
in by enemies and amidst over
whelming odds. 1t is not doubted
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 1,00O,-
900 allied troops, which could be mass
ed in Austria against Germany. In
such a situation Germany, it is believ-
would hasten to capitulate.
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