The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-01
GERMANY LEFT
TO ISOLATION
BY her ALLIES
Desertion of Teutonic Allies
Shows End of German S
Dream of World Conquest.
(By Associated Press,

The great Teutonic alliance, which
| for four years has carried on the great
est war in history and often seemed
to have almost achieved success, is
tumbiing to pieces. Bulgaria and Tur-
key have surrendered, Austria, with
anarchy reigning throughout the king
dom, is begging for peace. and Ger
| many is awaiting anxiously the terms
of the allied nations before giving up
| the struggle.
In fact, news of the breaking up
of the enemy nations on their home
| fronts Is more momentous than ever;
reports of tremendous events in the
theatres of actual battle
Turkeys has apparently given up
everything, agreed to the opening of
| the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus,
and thrown herself upon the mercy
of the allies arrayed against her. In
| this phase of the war, the United
States is not an active participant
:; This country has not been at war with
the Ottoman empire. Entry of the
Black Sea by British, French and Ital
ian warships may be announced at
any time, with the final act of the
drama In that region of the world but
! a short distance away. Assistance to
Rumania and Intervention in southern
! Russia Is probably matter of but
brief period.
| Austrians Face Disaster
] Austrians armies fighting on Italian
I soil face a great military disaster for
the rush of the troops commanded by
| General Diaz has not been halted by
Austrian appeals. Proposals made by
plenipotentiaries from Vienna have
been referred to the inter-allied war
council by the Italian commander, but
the work Of wiping out the stigma of
the defeat of Caporette has not been
stopped
At home, Austria seems to be
seething hot bed of anarchy. Rail-
roads Of the most vital Importance
have ben cut, rioting of a serious ma
ture has occurred in many Of the larg-
er cities and the imperial authorities
, at Fiume, Prague and possibly other
| cities have given up control to the
! Slavish and Czech national commit
| tees. Germany now seems to be vir-
tually cut off from Austria by the ac-
! ton of the Czchs in Bohemia.
In Germany, the true state of affairs
is, for the most part, unknown, but
i enough has been reported from neu-
! trail countries to indicate a crisis in
the history of the emnire. The abdi-
cation Of Emperor William is said to
be imminent, if it has not already
taken place.
| From Paris comes report that the
terms of the allies viii be made known
| to Berlin today. The shifting of the
sittings of the inter-allied war coun-
Gil from Paris to Versailles, is viewed
as an indication that the official and
possibly the final phase of the mo-
| mentous meetings of entente repre-
sentatives, which has been going on
/ for some days, has been reached.
| BRINGS END NEAR.
| LONDON, Nov. 1.-The complete IS
| olation of Germany as a result of the
desertion and surrender of her allies,
Is commented upon here as the out
standing feature OF the latest devel-
opments in the colossal drama Of
victory The effect of this isolation
upon her armies, coupled with the des-
perate internal conditions in Germany,
Is regarded almost everywhere as
bringing the end Of the war very
near, althoug in some quarters, warn
ing is raised that the German army
and navy is still in existence and in
the hands of desperate men are form
liable and dangerous.
The general tenor Of the comment,
however, indicates a belief that Ger
many must sooner or later accept any
terms the allies impose. There is
considerable speculation at to the ex-
tent Germany will be able to oppose
the carrying out of the terms Turkey
has accepted. 1t is unknown whether
German garrisons still hold the Dar-
danelles for this and other defenses
of Constantinopie, while resistance by
the Germanized Russian Black Sea
| fleet is regarded as a serious possibil-
ity. Even If the forts are evacuated,
passage of the straights may not, it
/ is suggested, be without danger, as
it Is assumed they are still mined,
and must, in any event. be swept be-
fore ships can pass through. The Ex-
press, however, learns that the To-
cations of all the mines is known to
the Turks and that paper believes that
when they undertook to open the
straights the Turks also agreed to
clear the mine fields.
| The immense possibilities following
the Turkish collapse are discussed by
all the newspapers among the hope
full auguries being the rescue of Ru-
mania and the end of Bolshevik rule