The Topeka state journal., 1918-10-28
Asks an Immediate Armistice
on All Fronts.
IN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
All OF Terms Set Out by Wilson
Accepted.
German Ally Ready To Forsake
the Fight.

SOH dSCOIOlllS W ISpO1 70 1OdSIl-
ing here, accepts all the views
expressed by the president in his
note of October 10.
The reply declares that Aus
tria is ready without awaiting
the result of other negotiations
to negotiate a peace and an i'm
mediate armistice on all Austro-
Hungarian fronts.
This would indicate that Austria is
willing to have the Czecho- o-Slovaks
and Jugo- -Slavs determine the measure
of independence they desire from the
Hapsburg monarchy, but with the
text of reply not yet received this point
is not clear.
In his reply to Austria Hungary Oc-
tober 10. President Wilson said that
since his speech of January 8, the
fourteen points. which were accepted
By Austria, the United States has rec
ognized the -Slovaks as bel
ligerent and had recognized the aspir-
ations of the Jugo- SlaVS for freedom.
He continued:
The president is therefore no
longer at liberty to accept the mere
autonomy of these peoples as basis
of peace, but is obliged to insist that
they and not he shall be the judges of
what action on the part of the Aus
tro-Hungarian government will satisfy
their aspirations and their conception
of their rights and destiny as men,
bers of the family of nations
In the last few days the Czechs
have been reported in complete con-
trol in Bohemia. 1t also has been re-
ported the Jugo-Slav nations have
taken steps TO throw off the yoke of
Austria and establish a free state.
Unofficial In Washington.
Washington, Oct 2S.-An unofficial
report that Austria's reply to President
Wilson's last note had been sent and
that il contained n suggestion that
Austria be permitted to negotiate a
separate peace with the allies, reached
Washington today.
These adVices said that Austria ac-
cepted all Wilson's propositions as set
forth in his last communication. 1t
was forecasted last week that Austria
would do this.
Austria, it was further reported, ex-
pressed a Willingness to negotiate
peace to apply to her fronts alone.
The state department has as yet
heard nothing and nc official advices
have reached the Swedish minister,
who would probably deliver the Aus
trian note.
London. Oct. 2S.-A revolution is
feared in Vienna. according to adviceS
received here today.
The archdukes have taken refuge in
the castle at Godollo. and Emperor
Karl, it is said, will soon leave for
Dehreczin.
Godollo, fifteen miles northeast of
Budapest. is the site of a royal palace.
Debreczin, 116 miles east of Budapest,
is a manufacturing and commercial
center of about $4,000 population.
There are three archdukes, Franz
Joseph Otto. al ged 6: Robert Karl Lud-
wig. 5; and Felix Friedrich August, 2.
There is also an archduchess, Aldeib,
aged 4.
Revolution in Hungary.
Washington, Oct. 2S.-A peaceful
revolution is believed to have taken
place in Hungary and a national coun-
c.l formed to take control OF the gov
ernment. according to semi-offfcial
dispatch from Berne here today quot
ing kilograms from Berlin.
immediate peace and complete in
dependence of Hungary and a sever
ance of the alliance with Germany are
demanded.
Count Karolyi is apparently heading
the revolution. according TO the cable
which reached the French high COM
mission today.
Delegates of Karolyi's party and of
the radical and Socialist parties met
the nights of October 25 and 26 and
decided upon the formation of a Hun
garian assembly. This assembly issued
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