The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-29

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program for armistlce terms will be
accepted by the conference. 1t may
be implied then that the conference
will tell the German he must leave
his heavy artillery where It stands
on all fronts. though he may take
home his side arms; he must evacu-
ate all occupied territory. including
Russia. and Rumania; he must sub
NIT to allied control Of German sea-
craft and important munition plants
for the time at least and he must
expect the allies to occupy strategic
points in Germany, including strong
holds in Alsace-Lorraine, so that
there will be no double dealing at the
peace table.
The same terms will apply to the
armistice with Austria-Hungary.
President Wilson is expected to
forward Immediately the Austrian
appeal for peace to the Versailles
conference so that the whole Ques-
ton of terms for Germany, Austria
and Turkey may be discussed at the
same time.
Acceptance by the Teuton powers
Of these terms will mean an end to
hostilities.
The president is represented today
by men in his confidence, as believ-
ing the Germans will knuckle now to
peace dictated by the allies.
The war department, however, 1s
proceeding with the war orders and
war preparations as though no peace
talk were In the air. The draft ma
chinery Is being hurried and every
possible effort is being made to keep
munitions and other Industries at
full pitch Secretary Of War Baker
declared his full sympathy with the
idea that war work must go on with
out hindrance.
Revolt Ia Montenegro.
ZURICH, Oct. pa revolution
has broken out in Montenegro, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Laibach
today.
The revolutionists, which include
Albanian soldiers have seized Cettin-
je, Scutari and Rieka- The Austro-
tIungarians are evacuating the coun-
try.
[Cettinje, the capital of Montene-
gro, is located within two miles Of the
Hungarian frontier. RieEa is six miles
east Of Cettinji. Scutari the principal
city Of northern Albania, is thirty
five miles southeast OF Cetttinje. Lai-
bach is q Hungarian city. tfirty-hve
miles northeast Of Treste.1
Military Coup Defeated.
LONDON, Oct 29.-Colorful reports
mourning into London from The Haig,
quoting Berlin newspapers, expose a
military coup d'etat planned by Gener-
al Ludendorrf and Field Marshal Won
Htndenburg to block concessions to
President Wilson.
The Vorwarts declares the constt
tutional changes were rushed to frus-
trate the coup d'etat Exposure OF the
alleged plot is believed to have forced
the resignination Of Ludendorff and
to have started q movement also to
orlst Won Hindenburg.
Members Of the reichstag and the
socialist press daily demand abd1ca-
ton OF the kaiser.
The yocaler Dusseldorf declares 1t
ia nersistently rumored that the Ger
man armies will retire behind the
Rhine.
German headquarters will be trans
ferred to Dusseldorf, the newspapers
said, where. it is officially admitted,
fha ouartermasters department Is
registering billets.
Civilians are stampeding from the
lower Rhine region and Westphalia.
A Zurich dispatch from Budapest
SAWS the stormiest demonstrations
are being enacted there, similar to
those OF 1846 (the date OF the Hun
garian revolution).
Germany All Alone.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-Austria-
Hungary is virtually out Of the war,
now leaving Germany to fight it out
alone. according to the almost unani-
nous view in diplomatic circles here
today.
Austria wants peace and Intends
TO desert Germany IL the allies Will
let her. This is the Interpretation
diplomats place on her appeal for an
immediate armistice without await
ing the result of other negotiations"
Semi-oficiaI statements here today
disorder and virtual revolu-
tion in Hungary.
Magyar leaders are rousing their
neople to break from Vienna and
pain the freedom from the Hapsburgs
which they tried to get in 1876 when
Austrian arms forced them back into
the empire.
German Bishops Alarmed.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 29.- The
Cologne Volks Zeitung says con-
qress of German bishops has asked
the pope to exercise his influence in
favor of a just peace which will pre-
vent the allies from destroying Ger
many.