ADVANCE FROM THE PIAVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16996, 1 November 1918, Page 5

ADVANCE FROM THE PIAVE

TOTAL OF 33,000 PRISONERS FERMENT IN CENTRAL EMPIRES CZECH REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED The line of battle in Italy now extends from the Brenta -'Valley to the sea. Italian, British, French, and American troops are engaged. Thirty-three thousand prisoners and a large number of? guns have been taken. The advance east of the Piave continues, a large number of additional towns having been occupied. A Bavarian movement to transfer the centra of the German Empire to Munich Is reported. The Social Democrats are com* bluing with the propaganda drastic demands for the punishment' of the Kaiser and Ludendorff. A movement favouring the abdication of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince is also meeting with active support in Bavaria, particularly in the universities. The Kaiser is reported to have told a delegation from the Reichstag that he was willing to abdicate hat that the time had not yet come to do so. The declaration of a republic at Prague is reported. This condition of ferment continues in Bnda Pesth, where crowds . are parading the streets cheering for a republic. The condition of Austria-Hungary is reacting powerfully upon Germany. The Frankfort Gazette declares the capitulation of the Austrian armies may be expected at any moment, and the Allies will probably occupy the Danube provinces. A general rising by the people oi Montenegro is causing the Austrians to leave the country hastily. The military governor has fled to Vienna. The Italians are rapidly approaching the southern frontier,