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War and Political Upheaval
Wrecking Empire.
SURRENDER TO ITALY NEAR
Revolution Success in Hungary
and Government Control
Taken Over.
VIENNA HAS BIG UPHEAVAL
Emperor Charles Flees Capital.
Count Tisza Assassin
ated by Soldier.
LONDON, Nov. 1. Out of the
clouds of the military and political
storm, which is carrying the Austro
Hungarian empire down to ruins, the
following news developments stood
out conspicuously today:
General Diaz, the Italian Commander-in-Chief,
handed the armistice
terms to the Austrian commander to
day. Fighting on that front may stop
at any time.
' Count Tisza, former Hungarian
Premier, who has been charged with
having a direct part in precipitating
the war, has been assassinated by a
soldier.
Emperor Charles is reported to have
fled Vienna.
A successful revolution led by Count
Karolyi has been carried out at Buda
pest. Austrian Republic Launched.
The formation of an Austrian re
public, apparently under Socialist
leadership, has been announced at
Viepna.
According to an imperial proclama
tion the AUstro-Hungarian navy has
been handed over to the South Slav
National Council, sitting in Agram.
PARIS, Nov. 1. The Austro-Hun-garian
commander on the Italian iront,
in asking General Diaz for an immedi
ate armistice, argued that under such
an arrangement Venetia would be
evacuated without damage to the cul
tivated areas, according to a Buda
pest dispatch to LTnformation.
COPENHAGEN7Nov. 1. (By the
Associated Press.) A successful revo
lution has taken place in Budapest
and the Hungarian National Council
has taken over the government, ac
cording to a message sent by Count
Michael Karolyi to the Berlin Tage
blatt. Karolyi Announces Success.
The message from Count Karolyi,
who is head of the Hungarian Inde
pendent party, reads:
"Revolution in Budapest and Na
tional Council took over government.
Military police acknowledge National
Council completely. Inhabitants re
joicing. "KAROLYI,
"President National Council."
BASEL, Switzerland, No. 1. Offi
cial announcement has been made in
Budapest, says a telegram from the
Hungarian capital today, of the forma
tion of a ministry under Count Karolyi.
LONDON, Nov. 1. After the proc
lamation in Budapest, Archduke
Joseph, the representative of the Em
peror, left the city, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Zurich.
Charles Leaves Vienna.
Emperor Charles, the dispatch adds,
before leaving Vienna personally gave
orders that all conflict with the popu
lation be avoided. He instructed the
authorities to yield without resistance
to the new power.
COPENHAGEn7Nov. 1. A dis
patch from Vienna printed in the
Tageblatt, of Berlin, says:
"The National Assembly met at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. A vast crowd
had assembled before the Diet and
frantically cheered the red flag which
was displayed by laborers from the
suburbs of Vienna.
Socialist Speaker Cheered.
"Socialist members of the Diet were
cheered when they addressed , the
crowd in favor of a republic.
"Mayor Weisskirchner tried vainly
to get a hearing, but he was greeted
with hisses.
"Meanwhile the National Assembly
(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.)
Progress of the War.
Br the Amiociated Presfl.
FROM the mountain regions of North
ern Italy to the plain of Venetia
and on salient sectors in Belgium and
France the Teutonic armies are being
violently attacked by troops of the
entente.
In Italy, except on several sectors in
the hill country, the enemy is fast be
ing: overwhelmed; in both Belgriuro and
France additional splendid gains have
been recorded in favor of the entente,
in the achievement of which Americans
took a goodly part.
The Austrians and Germans are fast
making their way out of Serbia, many
of them already having crossed the
Danube. French end Serbian cavalry
have reached Belgrade, from where a
fast turning movement westward along
the Save River Is likely to work havoc
with enemy forces coming northward
in Western Serbia and those struggling
northward through Albania.
So far as Turkey is concerned, her
capitulation is an abject one, and the
Ottoman no longer Is to prove a factor
in the world war.
Although the new smashes of the
British, French and Americans in Bel
gium and France have been markedly
successful toward ridding French and
Belgian soil of the invaders, it is still
the Italian theater on which the eyes
of the world are centered. Internal
strife in Germany and Austro-Hungary
and continued pleadings from the dual
monarchy for an armistice and a ces
sation of hostilities have received scant
notice when compared with the im
pression that the wonderful drive of
the Italians and their allies against
the Austro-Hungarians has made upon
the world at large.
Everywhere the enemy is being de
feated in Italy. In the Alpine region,
where the natural barriers had acted
as bastions of defense, the enemy line
has been broken at salient points and
the foe compelled to retreat to fur
ther mountain strongholds. On the
plains the retrograde movement toward
the Tagliamento River is .virtually a
complete rout, with allied airplanes
violently attacking with machine guna
the throngs of the enemy hurrying
eastward, with the cavalry cutting to
pieces the stragglers and the infantry
and machine gunners taking a heavy
toll in killed or wounded.
Great numbers of the Austro-Hungarians
still continue to be winnowed
back of the line to the prison cages.
Large quantities of stores are still fall
ing into the hands of the entente forces
and numerous additional towns are
being liberated. More than 700 guns
already have been added to the store
of other trophies.
In Belgium along the Scheldt from
Berchem to Gavere, King -Albert's men
have pressed forward in the general di
rection of Ghent and at last accounts
were standing on the western 'side of
the canal which the Germans had hoped
before the concentrated attack was be
gun would prove a strong point in their
northern defensive system.
To the south, below Valenciennes,
English and Canadians have driven the
German line farther eastward over a
front of six miles, inflicting exception
ally heavy casualties and drawing
their line almost to the outskirts -f
Southern Valenciennes. Several thou
sand prisoners were taken in the enter
prise. On the southern part 6fthe front the
French and Americans are driving
northward over wide fronts, clearing
the enemy from the territory which it
is essential for him to hold if his line
from Belgium to the Meuse is to be
retained intact.
RAILROAD FUND HALF GONE
Two-thirds of Money Advanced Went
to Seven Systems.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. The half bit
lion dollars revolving fund provided
originally for Government administra
tion of railroads is about one-half ex
pended. The Railroad Administration
reported today that $222,741,000 hs
been disbursed from the fund of cer
tain roads, making $363,116,000 total ad
vances to the railroads. Payments to
car and locomotive builders of $58,-
433,000 raises the total disbursements
of the Railroad Administration for
these purposes to $421,550,000.
Nearly two-thirds of all money ad
vanced has gone to seven systems:
Pennsylvania, $56,620,000; New York
Central, $55,320,000; New Haven, '$50,-
000,000; Baltimore & Ohio, $22,260,000
St. Paul, $16,925,000; Illinois Central,
$15,475,000, and Erie. $12,900,000.
SMOKING CAR HAS FRIEND
Secretary McAdoo Opposes Removal
of Comfortable Equipment.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1. W. G. McAdoo,
director-general of railways, today In
Chicago, where smoking cars and
compartments have been removed from
street railway equipment at the direc
tion of health authorities during the
influenza epidemic, expressed himself
as "a friend of the smoking car where
a man may enjoy his ride in comfort."
"Personally," said Mr. McAdoo, "I be
lieve one can get influenza as easily in
a parlor car as in a smoker. )t seems
to me smokers should not be taken off
trains unless it is shown they con
tribute to the spread of the Influenza
epidemic. In case any move is made
to abolish the smoker, I will be guided
largely by the recommendations of the
public health experts in my depart
ment." ALLIES REACH BELGRADE
Serbian and French Cavalry
at
City's Outer Defenses.
SALONIKI. Nov. 1. French and Serb
ian cavalry have reached the outer de
fenses of Belgrade, capital of Serbia,
says a French official communication
issued this evening. '
BERLIN, VIA LONDON, Nov. 1. Ger
man troops which had been operating in
Northern Serbia have been withdrawn
to thenorth bank of the river Danube
in the region of Belgrade, the German
war office announced today.
1TUHKEY BOWS TO
ALL ALLIED TERMS
Surrender Complete and
Unconditional.
SECRET AGREEMENT DENIED
Lord Robert Cecil and Foreign
Officer Issue Statement.
ARMISTICE DETAILS GIVEN
Dardanelles and Bosphorns to Be
Opened ; Allies Will Do Po
licing in Armenia.
LONDON, Nov. 1. The armistice ac
cepted by Turkey amounts to "com
plete. and unconditional surrender."
This statement was made by Lord
Robert Cecil, Assistant Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, to the Asso
ciated Press tonight.
Lord Robert emphasized the state
ment of the Foreign Office to the As
sociated Press by saying that "no se
cret undertakings or engagements
have been made with Turkey as far
as the British government is con
cerned. Pan-Germans losing.
He added that the armistice had been
signed by Great Britain on behalf of
all the allies.
Discussing conditions In Germany.
Lord Robert said the Indications of the
last day or two were that the Pan
Germans were losing their hold. He
declared that no Bolshevism has been
reported in Germany, but that it was
spreading In parts of Austria.
With reference to rumors circulating
here to the effect that the armistice
with Turkey includes clauses by which
Turkey would retain sovereignty over
Armenia and other provinces, the For
eign Office authorizes the statement
that there is no truth in the sugges
tion that any secret political agree
ment is annexed to the armistice with
Turkey.
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Armistice Terms Gives
The terms of the armistice granted
by the allied powers to Turkey follow:
First The opening of the Darda
nelles and the Bosphorus and access
to the Black Sea. Allied occupation of
the Dardanelles and Bosphorus forts.
Prisoners to Be Released.
Second The positions of all mine
fields, torpedo tubes and other obstruc
tions in Turkish waters are to be In
dicated and assistance given to sweep
or remove them, as may be required.
Third All available information con
cerning mines in the Black Sea is to
be communicated.
Fourth All allied prisoners of war
and Armenian interned persons and
prisoners are to be collected in Con
stantinople and handed over uncondi
tionally to the allies.
Fifth Immediate demobilization of
the Turkish army, except such troops
as are require", for surveillance on the
frontiers and for maintenance of In-
(Concluded on Pace 3, Column 2.)
TERMS-OF ARMISTICE
FINALLY AGREED UPON
GERMAN FLEET IT IS PROPOSED
TO RENDER HARMLESS.
Six Points to Be Drafted to Safe
guard Allies From Future
Maritime Operations.
LONDON, Nov. 2. The Versailles con
ference finally agreed late yesterday
on the armistice terms governing the
maritime powers of the central em
pires. The proposals contain six points
which are believed to throw every safe
guard around the German fleet, so far
as future operations against the allies
are concerned.
The armistice terms to be submitted
to Germany will be confined strictly
to military requirements except that it
will be brought out clearly that they
are conditioned generally upon Presi
dent Wilson's principles, with some def
initeness. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1. Prince Maxi
milian, the Imperial German Chancel
lor, has gone to general headquarters,
according to advices received here.
LONDON. Nov. 1. Lat tonight the
government had received no news as
to the reported signature of the Austro
Italian arrriiKtice.
CAR STRIKE IS SETTLED
Discharged fnion Men Will Be Re
Instated by Company.
NEW YORK. Nov. 2. Announcement
was made early today that the strike
of motormen and switchmen on the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company lines
had been settled. The men will return
to work this morning. The company
has agreed to reinstate 29 discharged
union employes.
It was the refusal of the corporation
to accede to this demand which re
sulted In the strike.
OREtOHAM ELECTIOV IVKWS.
L'nless the ban on assembling
of crowds is lifted by next Tues
day, election day. The Oregonlan
will not flash bulletins of the re
turns that night; as has been Its
custom. For the same reason vis
itors will not be admitted that
night to The Oregonlan's edi
torial rooms. The Oregonlan re
grets these restrictions, but they
are unavoidable In the present
unusual circumstances.
- The Pacifio TrlophoTie c Tele
graph Company has requested the
public not to telephone for elec
tion news, as the Influenza epi
demic has cut down its working
force and all available facilities
are required under present con
ditions for emergency calls. As
regards the Home Telephone Com
pany, the situation Is different,
because of its automatic service,
and The Oregonlan will give out
election news on the Home sys
tem. In case The Oregonlan
trunks are busy when you call,
try A63, the Information number
of the telephone company. As
the polls do not close until 8
P. M., It is unlikely that any
figures on the results in Portland
will be available before 9:30
o'clock. Returns from the state
at large will not be received be
fore 11 o'clock.
"THE WORLD .DO MOVE" FASTER AND
- wI j
J MEN DRIVE
IN BELGIUM
Coast Troops With British
Gain Over 5 Miles.
MACHINE GUN FIRE IS FIERCE
Boys Storm Through Deadly
Barrage of Bullets.
BLAZING HOUSES CONFUSE
Huns Set Fire to Belgian Buildings
and From Every Point of Shel
ter Vainly Oppose Allies.
LONDON. Nov. 1. Today' attack in
Flanders was rewarded with an ad
vance of more than - five miles on a
10-mile front. It brought the allies to
the Scheldt from Berchem to Uavere. 10
miles south of Ghent. This advance
probably will enable the Belgians to
push- the enemy over the Derivation
Canal to the Terneuze Canal.
Advanee Is 1'we Mllra.
South of Valenciennes the attack re
sulted in an advance of two miles on
a four-mile front and the capture of
Aulnoy and Preseau. thus reaching the
southern edge of Valenciennes, which
is flooded.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Nov. I. 2 P.
M. (By the Associated Press.) Valen
ciennes today was bottled up as the
result of a lignlnlng blow by the Brit
ish on both sides of "the city. Only
immediate retirement from the place,
or something in the nature of a miracle,
can save the German troops, who at
noon had only a narrow gateway open
to them for retreat toward the East.
Ceast Boys Continue Drive.
Meantime the French and British and
Americans from the Pacific Coast and
Ohio, along the Deynze-Avelghem front
in Belgium continued successfully the
advance begun yesterday morning. The
heavy enemy resistance encountered on
this sector yesterday died out during
the night.
The main attack at Valenciennes was
south of the city, just above Famars.
The Canadians, who engineered the
drive, were supported by one of the
heaviest artillery bombardments of the
war. The gunfire was terrific and this
made the going easy for the overseas
Infantry which followed.
- Opposition Is Cruafced.
The Idea of the Canadians in using
this great barrage was to crush the
resistance as quickly as possible so as
to ye allied lives. The bombardment
had the desired effect, for the oppo
sition offered by the enemy was not
strong and the Canadians pushed rap
idly through to their objectives, which
gave them the whole railway running
south from Valenciennes.
The enemy's casualties were heavy
and the Rhonelle River was lined with
German dead. About noon the enemy
massed for counter attacks from Saul-
n'oncludetl on Prngg 2. Column 4.)
FASTER.
0
RESPONSE IS NEARLY
BILLION ABOVE MARK
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN' TOTAL
$6,866,116,300.
Oversubscriptions Ranging From 6
to 2 6 Per Cent Reported in
All Districts of Nation.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. Despite peace
talk and influenza, American citizens
have responded for a fourth time to
the Government's appeal for war loans
with more than was asked.
Total subscriptions of 6.?S. 116.300
from more than 1.000.000 Individuals
Is the record of the fourth liberty loan
as announced today by the Treasury,
based on careful estimates by the 12
Federal reserve banks. The entire
SS6S.416.a00 oversubscription will be
accepted and applied to reducing the
size of the fifth loan, to be offered in
the Spring.
Final figures may send the fourth
loan total even higher. Owing to long
delay by banks In tabulating their
pledges, reserve banks were instructed
by the Treasury to report conservative
estimates of their sales arftt subscrib
ers, making these too low rather than
too high. For this reason some revision
of the totals will be made within a
meek or 10 days.
All dl'.trlcts reported oversubscrip
tions, ranging from 26 per cent for P.os
ton to a little less than 6 per cent for
San Francisco. The aggregate over
subscription was 14 44 per cent.
ARGENTINA NOT UPHELD
Nation's Foreign I'olicy Cauvc of
Strife at Home.
BL'ENOS AIRES. Argentina. Nov. 1.
News dispatches have quoted the Span
ish Ambassador to Argentina, on his re
turn to Madrid recently, as giving ex
pression to his views regarding Argen
tina, in the course if which he said the
Argentine people had approved the In
ternational policies of their govern'
mrnt. The Junta de la Juventud. or
Young Argentines, last nlaht decided
to protest to the Spanish government
over this reported utterance, declaring
tije statement untrue and that the Ar
gentine people are not in sympathy
'lth Argentina's foreign policy, es
pecially ns regards the war.
The Committ-'e of Young Argentines
is an Important political organization.
QUICK PAYMENT PROMISED
Delay at Allotments to Dependents
to lie Remedied.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. Senator
McNary had a conference with officials
of the War Rick Bureau today to pre
sent complaints of delay in payment of
allotments to dependents. lie was as
sured that arrangements have been
made by whlfch allotments concerning
which there Is no question will here
after be paid in from 12 to 15 days.
FEDERAL LAWS VIOLATED
Chicago Union linslncss Agents
Found Guilty of Calling Strikes.
CHICAGO. Nov. 1. James Lynch, for
mer business agent of the Coal Team
sters' Local Union, and Michael Norris.
of the Limestone and Sandstone Driv
ers' Union, were tonight found guilty
by a Federal Jury of interfering with
Interstate commerce by calling strikes.
Penalty Is Imprisonment for a year or
fine of $5000, or both.
Wilson Indorses O'Shaughnessy.
PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Nov. 1. Presi
dent Wilson telegraphed tonight to. ex
Governor Higgtns, of Rhode Island, ad
vocating the election of Representa
tive O'Shaunessy. the Democratic can
didate for the United States Senate,
whose opponent is the present United
States Senator Colt.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Th Weather.
TESTE RDATF Maximum temperature. 56
degreea; minimum, 5 degree.
TODAY'S Generally fair; southwesterly
winds.
War.
Allies prepare arm Ik tic terma regarding
Herman fleet. Pace 1.
Ore con boys drv forward In Belgium.
Ill 1.
At.atr.ra arm lea otter tr smashed. Fare 1.
Hun line broken by Franco-Yanka. Pif 4.
Foretgm.
Aottrla-Hungary nesr compltn ruin. Pace I.
Turkey surrenders unconditionally. Pas 1.
Oermanjr open to new attack. Pa a 4.
Katser quit Berlin for army headquarters.
Pago 5.
Domeatlr.
German property seizures la V. S. near
billion mark:. Pare R
Hundred pertnh in Coney Island train wreck.
Pas 5.
Swift prosecution of accused aircraft off! cere
tn prospect. Par S.
National.
New Tork World. Wilson champion, mildly
repudiates President, Pas; 2.
Oversubscription to fourth liberty loan
nearly billion. Pajt 1.
Pacific Northwest.
CUIvena In all parts of state predict Gover
nor's re-elect ion. rage 9.
Snorts.
Vancouver sportsmen to a hoot In New York
carnival. Pace lO.
Two big football fames scheduled today.
Page lO.
Commercial and Marine.
Larger movement of Oregon applea to East
ern markets. Page 15.
War news and crop estimates glv Chicago
corn setback. Pas 15.
Pea re stocks advance and war shares de
cline In Wall street. I "age 15,
Government asked to approve cost dock.
Pag 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
President's appeal resented by women voters
of Oregon. Psge 12.
Police search city for. robber suspect.
Page 11.
Salmon loss denied by state official. Pag 3.
L-abor "ticket" to be sprung at eleventh
hour, say rumors. Page It.
Epidemic gets worse, late reports show.
Page 16.
Grand Jurv Indict Sherman, fnrmer guard al
Stat Penitentiary. Pag 2.
Portland teachers to get full month's pay.
. Pace 11.
Crowding of cars to b investigated. Page 1.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
AUSTRIAN ARMIES
UTTERLY SMASHED
Prisoners and Booty of
Allies Beyond Count,
ADVANCE GAINS IN - SPEED
Sixty Thousand Italians Are
Freed From Foe's Grip as
Entente Troops Drive On.
ADRIATIC ZONE IS SEIZED
Tagliamento River Neared by
Italians and Mountain
Front Is Pierced.
WASHINGTON', Nov. 1. Rout of
the Austrian armies on the Italian
front continues, said an official dis
patch from Rome. The number of
prisoners is increasing rapidly and
continuously, while more than TOO
captured puns have been counted. The
booty captured already is of enormous
quantity.
The allies are moving forward in
such great leaps that it no longer is
possible to identify towns retaken or
to count prisoners and Runs captursd
or Italians liberated.
Italian Prisoners Set Free.
Sixty thousand Italians held by the
enemy to work on defenses in occu
pied territory already have been re
leased. With the Austrians everywhere in
flight and the Italian armies on. two
wings about to unite, it is said to be
impossible to foresee where the few
enemy divisions that escape will stop
running.
After annihilating the resistance of
the Austrians at the Livenza, Italian
cavalry divisions have pushed forward
and now are nearing the Tagliamento
River. Great numbers of airplanes
preceding the Italian troops are using
their machine guns on the retreating
enemy columns.
Udine Is N'carcd.
The Italians also are fast advancing
in the direction of" Udine and Tor
done already has been taken. The
third army, reinforced by marines, has
occupied the whole intricate rone along
the Adriatic. Belluno has been occu
pied by the 12th army, while at the
extreme eastern sector of the front
Italian marines have occupied Caorle.
"The battle continues all along tha
front, said the dispatch. "The enemy
is strongly maintaining his resistance
from the Stellvio to the Astico, but he
is wavering beyond the Asiago pla
teau and is in utter rout all along the
rest of the front. The greatest de
fense the enemy has is in the natural
obstacles along the road of its retreat.
Our troops are full of enthusiasm and
are following the enemy relentlessly.
The Italian artillery has been rapidly
brought into action and all the cap
tured enemy artillery is being used to
hamper the retreat.
Italian Cavalry Advances.'
"Divisions of Italian cavalry have
annihilated the resistance of the
enemy at the Livenza, have re-established
the communications to make
the passage of the infant" easier and
are already nearing the Tagliamento
River.
"The sixth Italian army went into
action yesterday and has brilliantly
carried on an irresistible action on the
Brenta supported by the Ancona
brigade.
"The fourth army has completed the
occupation of the valley of Fonraso
and the Bologna brigade has occupied
Filtre.
The 12th army, after conquering the
Pass of Quero, has rapidly advanced
south of Belluno, and after brilliantly
rounding the depression of Vadalto,
has advanced on Belluno and occupied
the city.
"The third army, reinforced also by
a regiment of marines, has occupied
the whole intricate zone along the
Adriatic.
Pordone Is Captured.
"In the direction of TJdine the Ital
ian troops are also fast advancing.
Pordone has fallen into our hands. At
the extreme eastern sector of the
front Italian marines have occupied
Caorle.
"Great numbers of airplanes are
preceding our troops and are operat-
il'o&cluded on l'uii 2. Column 2.)
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