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United Press
War Summary


Vienna.
A Zurich dispatch today declared
that before leaving Vienna for his
thorties to Yield without resistance
to the new regime.
The Austrian government appears
to be dlsntegrated, according to all
/ reports today, and the socialists are
evidently In power.
Dispatches from Copenhagen an
nounced that provisional workmen's
and soldiers council had been form.
! ed In VIenna-such as was organized
| to handle the Russian government
after the revolution. karl's action IS
believed to have meant the turning
over Of the government to this coun-
oil.
| Kari ls reported to have taken the
same action In Hungary through his
| cousin, Arch Duke Joseph at euda-
pest.
The provisional workmen's and SOL
diers' council in Vienna Is under
stood to be drawing up plans for re-
public.
trIan armies In Italy continues.
|
| IL impossible to estimate the total.
| The swiftly moving political events
1 At home and the overwhelming vic
tories of the allies have reduced the
status Of the Austrian armies In italy
and the Balkans to that OF a disor-
ganized mob.
With armistice negotiations report
ed to be going on behind the Italian
lines. the Austrans' power OF resist
ance appears to be utterly broken
and their organization completely de-
moraIized.
!, After splitting the Austrian armies
east of the Piave the allies have torn
the enemy defenses in the mountain
region wide open. !
The situation In the Balkans 10
scarcely less dangerous with the Aus
trians scrambing across the run
oarian forntier and the allies on their
heels.
Even the Austrian navy has been
rendered ineffective through the re-
ported seizure of the main fleet at
Poia by marines, who turned the
ships over to the Hunsarians and
Jugo-Slavs.
At least four independent states
) are reported to have formed from the
wreckaae OF what was once the AUS
tro-Hungarian empires. These IN
ciude tentative republics in Austria
and Hungary and two independens
states In Bohemia-one formed oy
the Gees, the other by German
spea eakine Austrans. In addition, the
Croats have begun move FOR mae
pendence. -.
; The allies were at war with Aus,
, tria-Hungary. But there is no longer
any Austria-Hungary, save In name.
|. The armies opposing the allies IN
Italy and the Balkans thus are ''ttle
more than mob, though they will
continue to exist as Austro-Hun
uarian forces until these independent
states have been formally recognized
Il by the allied governments.
An armistice may be effected with
the field commanders with the enemy
armies, who will act for them in slsp
iro an actual peace pact, however, Is
question. Karl apparently is with
out real power. His new foreign
minister. Count Andrassy, evidently
has been succeeded by the socialist
Adler.
Germany May Gobb'e Austria.
rBy ]. w. T. Mason, United Press Wal
Expert.l
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The annex
alton of Austria to the German empire
because of its Teuuonic racial pre-
!, dominance is beginning to appear ;
possibility to the statesmen Of Berlin
The breakup of the Austro-Hungar
ian monarchy may thus become th
: most important feature at the peac'
, conference through encouraging TIL
Germans to intrigue for territoria
expansion. The subtle hand of Ger
man statecraft Is already apparen
IN the creation Of an independent re
n1Iblic by the German element mtns
: led with the Czecho-Slovak popula
: ton of bohemia.
II IS presumably Germany's inter
ton to use the phrase "self-determin
alton" for the purpose of THROWN
confusion into the peace plans or th
{ democratic nations and thereby wiz
ming a Hohenzollern victory at tn
+ peace table. II Austro-Hungar
crumbles and the different nattonaf
9 Ties form Independent states. one G
/ tha new states viii be Austria. whic
is as Germanic as any OF the k1ns
dons and dukedoms in the Germa
empire.
Austria standing alone would b
I weak and disgruntled If, by tn
/ terms of peace, italian ambitions ar
> so realized as to deprive Austria
$ ports on the Adriatic, the little Hap.
= burg kingdom would become an IL
d land state. Under these conditions
t movement to unite with hhe Gcrna
empire under announcement frof
e berlin. mieht spread rapidly anon
e the Austrian people. But. insisttn
j. Of the peace conference upon All
3 tria's right to self-determine he
q future the Hohenzollern plenipotel