French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-11-07
EurODean

European
The Austro-Hungarian navy has
been handed over to the south SlaV
national council sitting in Agram.
An allied attack on Germany from
the east is foreshadOwed by George
Nicoll Barnet, member of the Brit
ish war cabinet, who recently address
! ed the American Army Officers Club
in London.
It is stated that the British have
been assembling ships at the mouth OF
the Dardanelles for some time, and
it is understood hat some Of the YES
sells have already started through the
straits. -
Ten thousand Finnish revOlutiOna'
! ries have been granted amnesty. All
persons sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment or less will be released.
Turkey, which has now been grant
ed an armistice, entered the war in
November, 1914, when she severed dl-
plomatic relations with Great Britain,
France and Russia. Military opera
lions began against Turkey on No,
vember 5, and Great Britain annexed
the island of Cyprus -rgS'
For several weeks after the United
States declared wal on Germany Tur,
key took no action, but on April q,
1917, she severed diplomatic relations.
However, there has been a dec
laration Of war either by the United
States or Turkey. i%
Turkeys war activities under the
leadership Of Germanophile Turks like
Enver Pasha has been marked by the
severity with which the Turks have
treated the subject nationalities in
their power.
An armistice between the allies and
Turkey was signed al Mudros on the
Island of Lemnos in the Aegean sea.
General Townshend, the British
commander captured at Kut-eIAmara,
was liberated several days ago by the
ish admiral in command in the Aegean.
that the Turkish government asked
that negotiations be opened immedi-
ately for an armistice.
/, The terms of the Turkish armistice
include the free passage Of the Darda-
nelles to the allied fleet.
The war had not arisen from the
faults of individuals, but from the
whole. political. historical and eco
Cohn, Independent Socialist, speaking
inr the Geman reichstag. Declaration
of, wal on France was officially based
on a French airman's attack on MI
remberg. This was a lie out of the.
whole cloth and invented by the mill
tary party. -
AS a condition of the armistice dur
ing which peace negotiations shall be
begun, you in your note to Germany
demanded the evacuation of. occupied
territories. We are ready, Mr.. Pres!-
dent, to conclude an armistice on this
condition and request you to inform
US when you intend to withdraw your
troops from the Thurman, Archangel
and Siberia? Thus telegraphs the
Russian foreign minister to President
Wilson.
Insurgents are running riot in Mon
tenegro. The Austro-Hungarians are
III z OAS uu44y " SSCrOuI. montenegro
was formerly lined up in the war with
the allies.
Military insurerctions are reported
both in Vienna and Budapest, the for
mer the capital of Austria, and the lat
ter the capital of Hungary.
The city Of Fiume has been ahan-
doned by the Austrian authorities to
the Croatian troops and the town has
been bedecked with Italian colors.
Only a small fraction Of refugees
from Belgian Flanders have gone to
Holland. 1t had been expected that
not less than twenty-five thousand
would retire into Holland.
For the time being there has been d
cessation Of U-boat ATTACKS on passen-
gel steamers, it has been announced
in the British house. of commons But
there have been attacks on other
steamers, ii, - added.
Many lives are reported - have been
lest in Budapest IS a rea,:t Of riot
ing.
AS a Fart of the f~~~,3 Of the ar
mistice it is urd~~t~~i the allied ma
ticns rT'li insist u-cn the surrender Of
TIC Ga1~an fleet, Including all the
CA. uonaarines, and upon the oc.
~cu~atio2 by allied forces Of all the
fortified towns on the Rhine.