ARMISTICE GRANTED AUSTRIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1899, 5 November 1918, Page 3

ARMISTICE GRANTED AUSTRIA.

HOSTILITIES CEASED AS FROM YESTERDAY. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (the Earl of Liverpool) has received an urgent message from Mr Lloyd George that an armistice has been signed with Austria. It takes effect at 3 p.m. to-day (Monday), London time. ' [3 p.m. Monday, London time, is equivalent to 2.30 a.m., Tuesday, New Zealand time.] Amsterdam, Nov. 3. Advices from Vienna state that an armistice has been concluded on the Italia)! front, and that hostilities have ceased. London, Novemb. 2. It is officially announced that Austrian officers from the General Staff arrived at Italian Headquarters, under a flag of truce, and requested an armistice. General Diaz transmitted the request to Signor Orlando (the Premier), who is now at Versailles. The inter-Allied Conference at Versailles drew up the Austrian armistice conditions, which General Diaz commnnicatei'l to the Austrian envoys. The conditions will render the enemy's resumption of the war impossible, and also prevent him from profiting by the armistice and extricating himself from his present bad military position. New York, Nov. 2. It is intimated from a high quarter that Hie Hungarian leaders told the authorities in Vienna that they would demand the immediate recall of the Hungarian troops from the Italian front, and would negotiate for a separate peace. This forced Austria to ask Italy for an armistice. The New Zealand High Commissioner reports: — Loudon, Nov. 3. An official Austrian emummique accuses Italy of prolonging hostilities when plenipotentiaries had presented themselves in the Italian lines on the 30th. Loudon, Nov. 2. An Imperiul proclamation at Vienna announces that the AustroHungarian Navy has been handed over to the Southern Slav National Council. Herne, Nov. 2. The Vienna newspapers state that (he Austrian military situation is hopeless. Twenty-three divisions, composed of various nationalities, have mutinied and left the Italian front, and are lighting among themselves. 'fhe deserters have formed themselves into so-ealled “Green Guards," They have already reached Klageufiu’t and Veldes. It is feared that the Entente Powers will soon occupy German Austria and even Vienna. Throughout- Slavonia and Croatia (here are violent outbreaks against the Germans and Magyars, whoso property is being pillaged. The German quarters at Poziga is in flames. Esseg and Pocrak have been almost destroyed. The Czechs at Prague compelled the German businesses and hanks to display (he French colours, London. Nov. 1. Supreme disorder reigns in Vienna, and molts are plundering and murdering. A Soviet has been formed, as well as a Republican Government. The Emperor has (led to the royal chateau at Godollo. Tim mobs are endeavouring to release Dr. .Adler (who was imprisoned on charges of treasonable conduct in the Trentino). Amsterdam, Nov. 2. A Vienna telegram stales (hat: Boris of Bulgaria (who succeeded Ferdinand when Bulgaria capitulated) has abdicated. A peasant named Stambulencki, with an army of 40,000 is heading a republican movement. Diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Germany have been severed. HAS THE KAISER ABDICATED? “ONLY A MATTE!? OF DAYS." London, Nov. 2. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against the Kaiser. The .general belief is (bat Ins abdication is only a ' matter of days. The Kaiser has been avoiding all appearance in public for some time, .and slipped off to Imperial Headquarters in the dead of night. Amsterdam, Nov. 2. The Leipseiger Volkszeitnng staffs that the Independent Socialists in Germany are starling an agitation throughout the country to secure (ho fall of the Kaiser, and the dismissal of von Hindenbnrg, the Crown Prince, and Prince Rnprecbt from their Army commands. New York, Nov. 2. The Paris newspaper Le Temps announces the abdication of the Kaiser. Other reports state that the Kaiser, refusing (o abdicate, has taken refuge at General Headquarters. The Bavarian Royal Family claims the Gorman throne in the event of the Kaisers abdication. New York, Nov. 3. Mr A. Dosch Fleurot, writing to (lie New York World from Copenhagen, says there is talk of the abdication of the Kaiser on every band. The newspapers arc openly discussing the question. The New Zealand High Commissioner reports:— London, Nov. 3, 3.50 p.m. An unofficial report states (bat the Kaiser signed an act of abdication at an assembly of the Confederated Princes on Wednesday. Its acceptance was postponed for fear of the effect on the Allied armistice conditions. London, Nov. 3. It is reported in Paris that the Kaiser signed unmet of abdication

on Wednesday. Publication, Avas ■withheld for fear of the effect on the. public morale, pending the receipt of the armistice conditions. Copenhagen, Noa% 3. The National Tidende’s Berlin correspondent states that the German people will probably be asked to declare their wishes as to the Kaiser’s future. The Germania says: The Kaiser is pledged to the most drastic domestic reforms, and his powers are analogous to those of King George. His abdication would imperil Germany's unity.