The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-31
AUST RIA ASKS PEACE
ON ALL CONDITIONS
Prescribed in President Wilson s.
Answer
GERMANY ASKS THE TERMS
Which the Allies Will Impose in
Granting an Armistice. Mean
time, Allied Armies Press For
ward on All Fronts. -. ...... .....

Austria Hungary has accepted
the conditions of an armistice pre-
llmlnafy to peace negotiations,
which were given in President
Wilson s answer to a note recently
received from that government.
Austria wishes to begin negotia-
tions at once.
The German government, hav-
ing received President Wilson'S
last answer to DR.. Solf's commun-
ication, is now seeking to learn
the terms upon which the Allied
military leaders will agree to an
armistice.
1t is believed that definite de-
cision upon all peace propositions
will be reached within the coming
week.
Meantime, the Allied armies on
all fronts continue making vigor-
Gus and successful assaults upon
all enemy propositions.
And in all the battlezones the
allies are meeting with marked
success. In France the German
battleline is slowly disintegrating
under the violence Of the allied Of
fensive. In northern Italy the,
Austro-Hungarians are b eing g
forced back by the British,
French and Italians, with heavy
losses in men killed, wounded or
made prisoner; near the shores of
the Adriatic, in Albania, the Ital-
ians are driving the Austrians to-
ward the Montenegro frontier,
while in Asiatic Turkey, both in
Syria and Mesopotamia, the Brit
ish are fast clearing the Turks
from their former strongholds.
Although the Germans in
France and Flanders still are
strenuously resisting the allied at
tempts to break their line, they
are giving away steadily under
1.-THE force of the attacks. In the
other disposition to offer stubborn
denial of the right-of-way except
possibly in the mountain region of
Italy, where an attempt is being
made by the allied forces to open
the back door to Austria.
South Of Valenciennes. in
France, Field Marshal Haig's
forces, notwithstanding stiff oppo-
sition, have advanced their line in
the general operation which has in
view the capttse of Valenciennes.
and are pressing on toward Mons
and Maubeuge, in the general con-
verging movement that is going
on between Belgium and the reg
ion north of Verdun.
Further south from the Disc
river to the region of Rethel, the
French have gained a signal vic
tory by forcing retreat of the
enemy in the big salient north of
Laon, and are threatening to
cause the collapse of the entire
German line eastward through a
fast turning movement. Ameri-
can troops have been thrown in to
the line near Rethel and have ad-
vaneed nearly mile and taken
numerous prisoners. The German
war Office admits the success of
the thrust of the French between
the Disc and Serre rivers, saying
that the German lines were with
drawn Sunday night to a front
west of Guise, and east of Crecy.
In connection with this general
the Americans north
west Of Verdun have begun on op-
GRAFTON which possibly may have
results. For the first
time since the Americans entered
the war, they have opened fire
against the back lines Of the enc
NY with their n@v loltg range
guns and are heavily ~ ubardine
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