BALKAN PEACE WOULD HASTEN AUSTRIAN COLLAPSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16969, 1 October 1918, Page 6

BALKAN PEACE WOULD HASTEN AUSTRIAN COLLAPSE.

NO CHANCE OF DEFENDING EXTENDED e^onmr. Australian and H.Z, C&blo Association. ' LONDON, Sept- 29. '; The Manchester Guardian gays Presumably the Allies will readily grant Bulgaria an armistice on terms, but cannot at this stage m&ie • Infinite pence, as the necessary .territorial adjustments mst- .mit I f a general;]-aropean The / 'ties might guaraut. >'- : «, > . as a territorial minimum her 1914 frontiers, conditional on. Bulgaria 'x ';' demobilising; handing oug'her artillery, arrao, and ammunition, and p/' allowing the Allies the free use of Bulgarian territories for operations against Turkey and Austria-Hungary, enabling the Allies to launoh ;.■?■ - afreet/atikck against Caastantiaople, ■which the Turks would be '■■■o unable to withstand and would request an armistice. ; C : Austria-Hungary is not prepared to defend a new froni extending - . the whole length of'the northern'and, western frontiers of Servia, specially as the Slavs inhabiting the adjoining Austrian and Huni::garian territories are in a state of semi-revolt. Austria-Hungary would ' soon collapse under the additional strain, and there is .little wonder .. ; that Dr. MalinoS's action has aroused intense emotion in Germany. ■"■ '■■,■■ s> _' .. 'wi, i l ■'". —"—