The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
bULCAR RULER
FLEES TO VIENNA:
TURKS ASK TRUCE
Ferdinand Said to Be Ready to
Abdicate in Favor of
Son Boris.
RI0T|NG IN TWO CAPITALS

0SiIH1 anu SoHStantinople-6ui9
Armistice Includes Surren-
der of Everything Of
Military Value.
Amsterdam, Oct 2.-The VossIche
Zeitung sums up the probable conse-
quences Of BuIearia's surrender as
| follows:
Turkey will follow suit.
! Rounania will rejoin the allies.
The southern SIavs will be aided by
the allies against Austria.
Austra's capituIation is likely.
| London, Oct. 2.-Bulgaria, during
tie discussion over the armistice at
Saloniki, indicated that she was not
averse to attacking Turkey, according
To reliable information received here.
Turkey Sends UItimatum.
London, Oct. 2.-Turkey has sent an
ultimatum to Germany to the effect
that the latter must keep the Black
sea open, grant new loans, and send
reserves to Palestine and MesopOtamia.
News Of the ultimatum was tele-
grsphed to the Daily Express by its
Geneva correspondent.
Unless Turkeys demands are
promptly and fully granted, Turkey
will follow Bulgaria's example and sue
for peace, the ultimatum is said to de-
clare.
Copenhagen, st. 2.-King Ferdi-
nend of Bulgaria has arrived at Essen
| thai CASTLE outside Vienna. according
TO the Frankfprtes Aeitung.
Riots are reported In Constantine
J PIE.
| This is the first news that Ferdi-
nand has again left Bulgaria. 1t may
mean that the reported revolutionary
movement in his country is gaining
ground. This summer he spent several
| weeks in Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary, and was said to be suffering
form a nervous breakdown.
Turks Ask Armistice7
London, Oct. 2.--Turkey has asked
| for an armistice. according to re-
lcrt reaching London from The Hague.
| A dispatch from Paris says Car Fer
| dinand Of Bulgaria is about to abdi-
cate in favor Of his son, Prince Boris,
| following his country's unconditional
| surrender to the allies and the begin
aing of disarmament of his forces.
Peace Demonstration in Berlin.
A peace demonstration took place
| n Berlin Saturday according to news
received here The cheering crowd
| assembled in front of the Bulgarian
| legation at the German capital, neces-
stating police Intervention. The riot
ers are said to have got the upper hand
| of the authorities and committed
number of excesses. Several statues
we're destroyed.
| Final Defeat Before Peace Comes.
IN the region east Of Veles Serbian
troops Sunday severely defeated the
Bulgarians near Charevo, six miles
| from the Bulgarian frontier. The
Serbian official statement of Monday
reports that the Bulgarian forces were
cut into two parts.
| (The Serbian victory was won be-
| fore the agreement was signed ending
hostilities.)
| Asks Blood and Wealth.
! Emperor William, in a message to
the fatherland party, is quoted In an
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange
| Telegraph company as saying:
'I have the confident hope that the
whole German people in these most
serious times will resolutely gather
around me and give their blood and
wealth until the last breath for the
defense of the fatherland against the
shameful enemy plans. Such an unan-
| imous resolve to exist will and must,
with Gods help, succeed In bringing
| he enemy's will to war to an end and
secure for the fatherland the peace
that it is worthy Of among the peo-
PIE of the world"
| All reports indicate decided cleav-
age between the junker and conserva-
tive classes and the class represented
by the socialist and radicals who on
| this occasion have the support of some
| centrists and even national liberals.
| Emperor Williams belated anxiety
| for the people to cooperate In the gov
ernment evidently will be distasteful
| TO the junkers, one of whose foremost
! newspapers, the Kreuz Zeitung, de-
cares that dictatorship Is the only
| russible alternative.
Want to Choose Cabinet.
| On the other hand the popular par
r;es are for a popularity elective cabi-
| net
The effect of the designations of
Chancellor Won Hertling and Foreign
Secretary Won Hintze on the public
| agitation is not yet reported and moth
Ing is known as to how the terms of
the Bulgarian surrender have affected
the German people If they have been
! Lermitted to know the terms.