SIGNS OF PEACE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 31, 31 October 1918, Page 5

SIGNS OF PEACE

DRAMATIC COLLAPSE OF , AUSTRIA ENEMY'S LINE'SMASHED Events in the war zone are marching swiftly to a dramatic climax, ■and (according to the reports to-day it seems to be a question whether our enemies will accept defeat now, and so escape the horrors of another winter campaign, or fight en to certain .and overwhelming defeat later on. ' The Dual Monarchy as an effective unit has collapsed—politically, economically, militarily, .and morally. So rapid has 'been the process of dis- ' ■solution that it has been difficult to get a true perspective of the situation. Count Andrassy Me sent ft supplementary Note to Mr. Lansing,. United States Secretary of State, appealing to him to use his influence with the President to secure an immediate armistice on all fronts. If Austria should fall, Germany, it is said, will find it impossible to canry on. The Allied War Council at Versailles (at present in secret session) will be faced with a difficulty, it is suggested, in dealing with tho problem of settling the affairs of this dismembered Empire. On the battlefronts the Allies are everywhere fighting victoriously. The French armies on the Oise continue to press the enemy hard, and are now engaging him on his new front. The British and Italian forces on the Piave have ' smashed 'the easmy'e line, driven their, thrust well home, and advancing on forty-sis miles of front, have already pressed the enemy back over a stretch of ten miles, capturing many prisoners and guns. The enemy's resistance is weakening, states one of the official reports.