UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16970, 2 October 1918, Page 7

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

GERMAN CHANCELLOR RESIGNS MESSINES RIDGE RECOVERED Bulgaria has accepted the allied terms unconditionally, an ornastice having been signed on Sunday, and hostilities terminated at noon on Monday. The Central News Agency reports that the terms include immediate demobilisation, the surrender of all means of transport, including railways and vessels, free passage for allied troops, and allied control of the navigation of the Danube. The resignation of Baron von Hertling, the German Chan. seller, has been accepted by the Kaiser. A leading Berlin paper states that Herr von Hintze, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has also resigned. The Belgians in Flanders have taken the whole of the formidable heights east of Ypres, while the British Second Army, acting in conjunction with them, has regained the Mesjines-Wytschaete Ridge In the face of considerable resistance. The Belgians have captured Dixmude and are attacking the Menin.Roulers road, at one point touching, it 2} miles south of Roulers. The advance has reached a general depth of fiTe-ari?es, but is eight miles at the furthest point. Id two days more ground has been gained than in the whole Messines and Pwischendaefe offensives from June to November last year. The advance is a distinct menace to the whole system of com« BKiiiications affecting the Belgian coast. Continuous progress was made on the whole battlefront north of St. Quttntin on Sunday, In spite of heavy resistance, ground was gained and many prisoners taken, At two points heavy German counter-attacks were met and resulted in tem. porary checks. The Junction of the Arras-Cambrai and Bapanme-Cambrai roads was seized and the northern suburbs of Cambrai entered. Heavy rain fell at night, Heavy German counter-attacks were made on Sunday night op the newly.won French positions at Urvillers, south of St. Qnci»tto, all of which were repulsed. There was no infantry action in the Champagne on Sunday night, bat the battle was rammed on Monday morning.