Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-09

anad the government was the some
what unwelcome guest of King Con-
stantine. The losses of three wars
and the typhus epidemic had cut
down the population; the starvation.
executions, and deportations which
accompanied Bulgaria and Magyar rule
reduced it still more. Nearly half OF
the population of the Serbia of July.
1914, is dead. There was some plausi-
bilty in the argument of the Bulgarian
premier who said last summer that
Serbia had ceased to exist. Serbia.
however, survived with entente aid
(which was too long withheld and
greater Serbia seems assured.
Despite a growing disposition on the
part of Austria to bubble over the in,
depreciation to be placed on the ar
mistice terms, these questions I'M
questionably shear from her every
vestige of military power which could
in any way be used against the entente
nations They do not specifically men
ton the occupation of any part or
Austria, such as the Austro-German
boundary But they do provide for oc-
cupation on this line or any other
which they may deem necessary In or
der>to conduct military operations. In
other words, provision is made for the
right to operate against Germany thru
Austria, and thereby cut in behind the
defenses of the Rhine should Germany
attempt to fall back of the river and
defy us to push further eastward.
It must be recognized. however. that
the men we now have on the Austrian
front are not Immediately available for
service elsewhere. They can not un-
der any circumstances be shifted
to the more northern theater. The task
of carrying out such an armistice ana
of seeing that it Is lived up to is a stag
gering one. and will probably require
for some time the full military frees
now in the field.
Not that there will be any attempt
on the part of the Austrians at organ
lied resistance. Austria has passed the
stage where resistance is possible Her
armies, before the armistice was agreed
upon, were soundly beaten and their
total defeat was but question OF
short time. To this extent the armistice
was but the recognition of an existent
state Of facts rather than the imposl-
ton of terms. But In the territory from
which Austria is to be excluded there
arc millions of men under arms. some
of whom have to withdraw for many
miles and demobilize-itself tremen-
dous operation. Others, the allies con-
s,sting Of Italians, French. British, ana
Americans, must advance to the !iae
mentioned in the, armistice, must go
even further to certain strategic points
and must move up to them great
stores Of supplies and guns in prepara-
tion for an attack against Germany,
should the latter power decline to ac-
ccpt the terms which have already
been submitted to her Certainly at
this stage Of the war. when the allies
have the whole situation in their hands.
they are not going to take any chances
of a slipup in the case Of Germany.
The dual monarchy OF Austria Hun
gary will be completely dissolved when
the final chapter in the world war is
written. The Hungarians have set UP
a government Of their own, free from
the yoke of Austria. The Czecho-Slo-
axis and various other groups have
handed together to cooperate IN OBJ
tanning freedom Here are the nation
alities in Austria and Hungary and
their populations: