DARDANELLES NOW OPEN
ALLIED FLEET THROUGH THE STRAITS . AUSTRIAN PEACE POURPARLERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD These are days of great events, and great expectations, To-day's budget of. news from the war zone includes announcements of the uncondi- ' tiorial surrender of Turkey, the opening of'the Dardanelles to the Allied fleet,-the.-abdication of William Hohenzollern of Germany, and, the ad- , rent of peace 'parlementaries on the Austro-Italian battlefield. The Al- • lied''Grand Council at Versailles is expected to make known the result of its deliberations at the end of the present week, which moans that the news.irill probably not-reach New Zealand till Monday at tho earliest. The Counoil"has -difficult problems to settle, and its sessions have been protracted. Meanwhile, on the battl efronts, increasing pressure is the rule. The British-Italian captures of prisoners have reached the total of 55,000, with many hundreds of guns of .all calibres. The whols front from the Trentino to the Piave is ablaze, and the enemy is in full retreat. In the/West the Allies .have launched a fresh attack oy the German line ip. the'direction'of Ghent, while on the French and American fronts the tnem.y is being pushed steadily back.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 33, 2 November 1918, Page 7
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190DARDANELLES NOW OPEN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 33, 2 November 1918, Page 7
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