FLEET HANDED OVER TO SLAV COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 34, 4 November 1918, Page 5

FLEET HANDED OVER TO SLAV COUNCIL

REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED AT BUDAPEST BIG BLOW IN THE WEST THREE BIG OFFENSIVES . ALLIES AT BELGRADE Wellington yesterday was brimming with rumours of Austria's capitulation. The cabled news to-day contains nothing official to confirm these, but the evidence in the reports suggests that capitulation is but a matter of hoars. The ruin of the Dual Monarchy is by all accounts complete. From tho ashes of war new republics are rising, new political parties emerging, with rival armies. Count Karolyi announces the formation of a republican State in Hungary, but there appears to ba some doubt whether Karolyi or the Bolshevik element is the stronger. Anarchy is spreading. Soldiers are deserting in large bodies aid pillaging in the interior. Count Ti6za has been assassinated. Ihe Government has handed over the Austro-Hnngarian, fleet to the Southern Slav Council. At the front the military debacle is spreading, right along the line froin the Trentino to the PiaTe. The total number of prisoners taken by the British and Italians stated to be now over 80,000, with enormous booty, the value of which runs into milliards. The Allies are pressing the retreating enemy hard, and the Italian cavalry is advancing on the Tagliamentd River. In'the West the'A Hies are at present developing three important offensives on a large scale. Tho Canadians have tg&en A alenciennes. In Serbia the Allies have reached Belgrade, and the Germans have recalled, their troops to the north bank of the Danube. The situation in Germany is one of intense anxiety. "Vorwaerts" says that Germany will have to swallow the Allies' terms, however hard they may be. The agitation against the Kaiser is spreading all over the country. Dr. Liebkuecht, the Socialist leader (recently released from prison), evoked thunderous * cheerfi from an enormous crowd in reply to his challenge: "Down with, the Hohenzollerns!"