Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — TO ASK FOR PEACE [ARTICLE]

TO ASK FOR PEACE

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY SEES UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, • • ' '’' ■ ■ ■ ~ ' Panic and Famine Are Driving Countries to Break Away From the Kaiser. Paris, Oct. 25. —Austria-Hungary already Is reconciled to the Idea of unconditional capitulation, says a Viennadispatch to the Frankfort Zeitung, because Vienna is threatened with famine, the authorities are powerless and laws are no longer enforced. » Hungary Intends to apply direct to the allied governments to ascertain on what terms they will grant an armistice and peace to Hungary, It is reported In political circles In Budapest, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal. Emperor William conferred with all the members of the government, talking at length with each individual, and then harangued them in a body, says a dispatch fruui Zurich to the Journal.

Thus far. the German newspapers have printed , nothing concerning the emperor’s speech. The war cabinet held another long meeting Tuesday. The socialist newspapers, the Zurich dispatch continues, are particularly outspoken. The 'Fraenkische Tagespost of Nuremberg, Bavaria, says the emperor must not think the German people are going to war for months to please him. “If the emperor must go,” it adds, “let him go at once.” The correspondent reports that the chancellor and the gan-Gerraans are working actively toward the formation of a national defense government. A proclamation to the people exhorting them to carry on war to the utmost has been drafted, with the help of Gen. eral Ludendorff, and it will be published as soon as President Wilson’s reply has beefivpeceived.