The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-12
turkey HURR!ES
HER EFFORT FOR
/ QUITTING FIGHT
AS Allies Drive Ahead, She Is
+ Ready To Give Up.
As BeIIigerent Her Position Be-
comes More Dangerous.
LONDON SEES AUSTRIA'S END
Germany Tries To Keep Her
Ally in Line.
Turk Governor Now in Athens
After Terms.
As Belligerent Her Position Be.
comes More Dangerous.
LONDON SEES AUSTRIA'S END
Germany Tries To Keep Her
Ally in Line.

Washington, Oct. 12.-With the al
lied armies driving ahead in the neal
east to re-establish their front on the
Danube river. Turkey is acceleratine
her efforts to withdraw from the war
Appeal to Wilson.
Following tentative negotiations
with the allies, reported for the last
few days. Turkey is now said to be
sending an appeal to President Will
son-probably similar to that of Bull
garia-urgfng his aid in obtaining for
Turkey an armistice and her retire
ment as a Teutor' ally.
Her position as a belligerent is be-
coming more and more dangerous and
her surrender is expected momentar-
lily, to prevent complete disaster. Cen
.eral Allenby has wrecked Turkey
armies and once the allies re-establish
the Danube front, Turkey will be cut
off from all hope of aid from Ger
many
When the allies get this waterway
under fire of their guns, barges bear
Ing munitions to Turkey via the Black
sea must cease their operations and
the Ottoman empire will be wiped out
of the war.
Open the DartlaneiIcs.
This accomplished. the Dardanelles
will be thrown open to the allied fleet,
Odessa opened as a base for recon-
struction of an eastern front in Russia
land the plight of Austria will be-
come increasingly serious.
1t is possible therefore that Ger
many is exerting every pressure to
hold her ally in line. or engineer Tur-
keys exit in such fashion as to get
what salvage she can out of the ruins.
For that reason, officials here are
withholding comment on the latest re-
ported Turk maneuver until official
adYices are at hand.
: Rahmy Pasha, governor of SMYRNA,
is now in Athens seeking a separate
peace with allied representatives
there Tho he is a young Turk, he is
ianti-German and has steadfastly re-
fused to yield to the pro-German En-
Yer and his vassals at Constantinople
He is ambitious to be independent of
Turkey proper and is dickering on
that basis with allied leader at Athens,
,advices say.
Greek Premier Venizelos entering
devastated sections of Macedonian
Greece. cabled details to the Greek
legation here today.
reduced from $4,000 to 5000, Ven
izelos reported.
Condition Indescrfbable.
1.-THE condition in which he found
the city is so appalling that no words
can describe the horrors and atrocities
committed by the Bulgarians.' the Of
ficial statement from the Greek lega-
ton declared. The remaining inhab-
itants look more like ghosts than
human beings. The German atrocities
In Belgium could be considered
child's play compared to what the
miserable Greek population of east
Macedonia have experienced"
The Greek government is urging al
lied and neutral governments to send
representatives to witness the damage
done to Greek territory. Preparation
viii be asked at the peace conference.
London Sees Surrender.
. London, Oct. 12.-Austria-H Hungary
and Turkey are expected Immediately
TO announce acceptance of President
Wilson's armistice terms, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Berlin received by way of Amsterdam.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says that Austria Hungary
and Turkey have informed Germany
they will accept Wilson's terms.
The Express declares the allies have
agreed on a common policy in regard
to peace negotiations.