UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 6

UNITED STATES.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. OF GENERAL WAR POSITION'. New York, Oct. as. It is reported from Amsterdam that the Austrian reply to President Wilson accepts all the conditions and states that Austria is ready to negotiate an immediate armistice and peace. The French have forced the Germans to abandon the Oise-Aisne line. American guns are firing on Longuyon. British troops in Italy captured SGOO prisoners and 29 guns. The Aleppo railway junction has been captured. The British have cut the ShergetMosnl road. The Turks arc retreating towards Mosul. POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP. ALLEGED AGAINST PRESIDENT WILSON. New York, Oct. 2S. In the United States Senate, Senator Knox attacked President Wilson because ho was seeking to make peace 011 his own terms and not 011 terms representative of American opinion. The Senate ought to take into its own hands the consideration of the peace treaty. The President was guilty of political partisanship. It is not expected that the President will reply to the latest. German note, which is regarded merely as en indication of Berlin's urgent desire to learn the Allies' terms.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. Washington, Oct. 28. Senator Knox, referring to President ideas of peace being scattered through various addresses, said that' whether right or wrong they ought -not to be the President's ideas alone, but iiniiiiiiiblifiiiilifilfr r e f e -~