PEACE OVERTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1918, Page 1

PEACE OVERTURES.

fAUSTRALIAN A N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION] THE AUSTRIAN TERMS. LONDON, Nov. 4. In the" House of Commons, Air. Honor Low said he hoped lo lie able to read to the House the whole of the terms of the Austrian armistice very shortly. Meanwhile he assured the House that it would be satisfied with the terms. TERMS FOR GERMANY. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. It is offiically stated that the Allies have unanimously agreed to the terms to be offered to Germany. If they are accepted, they will mean that Germany will surrender and that there will he an immediate end to the war. Jf Germany accepts the armistice terms, the final terms will lie left to the dictation of the Allies. The authorities here interpret tonight’s official statement as to the armistice terms as meaning that Germany is ready to capitulate. HIRE FOR CAPITULATION. PARIS, Nov. 4th. M. Marcel Hutin, the French critic snvs: General Groener, the German, specialist in railways and victualling, has been summoned to Hindonburg’s side to decide whether Germany lias anything to gain by another month’s resistance. M. Hutin adds: “Enveloped, and deprived of munitions, Germay, with, or without, the Kaiser is ripe for capitulation.” GERMANY HEMMED IN. LONDON, Nov. 4. Commentators continue to find ever so many pressing reasons why Austria’s surrender brings Germany inevitably to iter knees. The Mediterranean has now become an Allied lake, enabling the easy transport of the Palestine armies, and incidentally rohnMilitating the Suez route to Australia. When coal bases are re-established, the shipping position will he generally relieved. The use of the Austrian railways will enable the organisation of Bohemian bases to he effected, for the junction of the friendly Jugo-Slav and Czeoho-Slovak forces, thus not only exposing the German frontiers, hut bringing Berlin within 120 miles. Munich is within 45 miles and Lcipsig within eighty miles of secure Allied aerodromes, whence night bombers would he able to reach the heart of Prussia in eighty minutes. Germany has only circuitous routes, through Poland to her stolen Black Sea, bases. She is deprived of access to the great oilfields of Roumania and Galicia, which undoubtedly will result in hampering her aeroplane and transport work; whilst she also loses her southeastern granary, she depends on this for an early harvest, and it is a serious loss.