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PIPPI PLL LDP DLL LPL ALP AAP PPL LPL LPP PPL PLP PP PRADA The Seattle Sta NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN. SEATTLE THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST . Por Year, oy Mall, $690 to $9.00 Botered ws Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattie, Wa ab. under the Act of Congress March §, 1679, HUN WAR COUNCIL ASKS KAISER’S ABDICATION IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR, THE STAR IS FOR IT a 7reaesate?t?o TT SCeonrtrTe FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918. VOLUME 20. NO, 210 REDS’ RULE AUSTRIA COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE N EWSPAPER NTERPRIS Weather Forecast: ASSOCIATION Tonight and & gentle # ALLIED TERMS ARE ON WAY TO BERLIN AUSTRIA CHIEF BEGS ITALTANS | FOR ARMISTICE Foe Chief Begs for Armistice ited Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star NA (Via London), Oct. 31.—- (Night.)—Austrian military officials have been within the Italian lines SURRENDER “OF ENEMY - SEEMS DUE Civilization Forcing Central Powers on to Complete Submission to discuss preliminaries, it was an United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star | nounced by the war office tonight. || day to day. “The high command early Ture WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—That armistice terms) 4» established communication with completed and are probably now en route! diplomatic “ report probably based upon of Turkey to the it is regarded as probable Austrians will be required to lay down their arms to and the Germans to the ‘The conference was again shifted lief” here today. It terms of the! | from the foreign office to Col./ | House's residence. A more formal the Italian command.” the state- ment said. “Every effort is to be made for the avoidance of further useless sacrifice of blood, the cessation of hoatilities and for the conclusion of an armistice. "The Italian high command at first assumed an attitude of unmix takable refasal, and it was only yeaterday (Wednesday) evening that, GERMANY FACES TERROR By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The #tar WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—Com- session was to be held at Versailles |in accord with the Italian high com. | this afternoon, | | All the conferees appear to be op- | timistic, and the absence of worried | looks is accepted as complete con-| firmation of House's staternent that | | with complete justice, Marshal Foch's ideas are predom!- ] nating. | The collapse of the Turks, it is | generally considered, will further ex: ' pedite the work of the council. FLU APPEARS TO BE ON DECL Spanish influenza appeared to ‘on the decline Friday after. as city officials prepared enforce their latest order which will close tight dozens of and retail stores, and of offices Saturday. But three additional! deaths and Rew cases were reported to the department Friday morning. the total toll of the last %4 hours to nine deaths and 271 These figures were be to the 17 deaths and cases of the 24 hours pre as a basis for the assumption the sweeping regulations now @fect are tending to stamp out the pandemic There will be no shopping permit. te@ even by telephone on Saturday, Kt was definitely stated at both the Gity hall and the health department Officials of the latter office declared that many houses in the city were Making preparations to accept tele Phone orders from customers on ®aturday, but that this practice Must not be allowed. ‘The sense of the order, having as tte object the keeping of people at would be defeated if the Stores brought corps of employes @own to work Saturday, it was ex: Diained. Telephone shopping will not be Permitted after 3 p. m. Friday, either, health officials declared Mayor's Secretary Conklin and Miss Ingraham, the mayor's stenog Fapher, were kept working in relays Thursday afternoon and Friday an Swering the flood of “Must I close?” inquiries which kept pouring in over the mayor's phones “T believe that fully 85 per cent Of the stores in the city have called Sp about the regulations,” said Conklin. In addition to the stipulation that One elevator must run in buildings Where physicians have offices, it Was stated Wriday that another ex feption to the elevator operation dict had to be made on the request PROPERTY The real estate situa- tion is such in this town that no man should neg- leet buying an anchor- age for future develop- Ment or immediate im- Provernent. Read care- fully the “buys” appear- in the Classified col- mns of The Star from % nothing to report elsewhere. INE FRIDAY | of the war department. | Blevators will run after 3 p. m Friday and on Saturday in buildings where draft boards have their quar |ters. This was agreed to by the | city authorities, when fear was ex pressed that the work of the boards would be made difficult if draftees, physicians and board members were required to climb long flights of stairs. } Only atx Thursday. deaths were reported This is a marked de cline. The number of new cases was about the average—314 new cases being reported. Merchants closed their stores at p. m. Thursday, and did not reoper until 10 a m. Friday. All stores and establishments, with the excep tions of drug and food stores, close (Continued on Page Four) \Britishers Attack Valenciennes Line LONDON, Nov. 1-—The British suddenly attacked south of Valen- clennes this morning, ft was an- nounced by Field Marshal Haig. “Good progress” was reported. “In successful enterprises which small parties carried out in the neigh |norhood of Le Quesnoy yesterday, a number of prisoners were taken,” the statement said. “The operation we have undertak len south of Valenciennes this inorn: | ing is reported to be making good progress.” |Woman Asks $2,250 Damage for Kick Annie E. Leehey ia accused of vio lently Kicking Mary BE. MeGovern in| an assault complaint, claiming $2,25 damages, that has been filed in the superior court. It is alleged that the plaintiff was so seriously injured that she had to be taken to the Co- lumbus sanitarium by Maurice D. husband of the defendant. Austrian Marines Seize Warships: COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1.— Aus- trian marines have revolted, seizing the warships at Pola and placing them at the disposal of the Hun garians and the Jugo-Slava, it was reported today FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN RAISED $6,866,416,300, WASHINGTON, Nov. 1,—-Total| subseriptiona to the Fourth Liberty | Loan were $6,866,416,300, the treas- | ury department announced today. lhe number of subscribers is esti mated in excess of 21,000,000. GUNS ROAR NEAR GUISE PARIS, Nov. 1—During the} night there were violent artillery | actions in the Guise region and west | lof St. Fergeux,” the French war of-| \fiee announced today, “There is : i | Slovaks, | Lenhove. lof Sacile, on the mand, Qen. Von Weber, accompa nied by a deputation, was permitted to croms the line for preliminary GERMANY NOW BEING OPENED LONDON, Nov. 1 (British Ad- miralty Wireless).—The effect of the Austrian break upon the war will be immense, said the London Daily News today It is obvious would consent which did not cane of Bulgaria, unhindered pamage of their and the prosecution on Austrian sofl of war against Germany. Even if Austria were disposed to refuse that demand, she would be powerless to resist it Her constituent peoples in revolt against her and the Czecho- Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs have been recognized by the entente as allied belligerents. That is enough in itself to se- cure the allies an entrance to and thru what has hitherto enemy territory. The im ~ of that ts not its efi Austria but its effect on Ger- the allies armistice as in that to no provide, for troops are teen bur oat upon many. It means that her back door Is forced. Bohemia, now passing rap- idly into the hands of the Czecho- adjoins Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria and the eastern fron- tiers of pone of these states ts or- ganized for defense Without moving a man from the West front, the allies could draw from their southern and eastern fronts a force more than sufficient to drive a way into Saxony or Ba- varia—and that without taking into account the support the new inde- pendent Slay races might render. Against that fatal encirclement Ger- many cannot struggle. BRITISH NEAR AUDENARDE LINE BY LOWELL MELLET (United Press Correspondent) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Nov. 1.—Britiah troops advanced in today's fighting to with arde, They passed Anseghem, Linge: straat, Gaester, Rougge, Tregan and T | face the world alone. How long she will hold out f* a matter af conjec ture, but authorities here believe not more than six months. Germany, these avuthorities say, must be weighing thoughtfully the consequences of the debacle of her allies as she waits the call for sur- render from the Versailles confer ence. Austria's exit from the war, thorities here point out, will expose the entire southern German frontier. where morale is the weakest, and where feeling against Prussia is most bitter. Bavaria, Saxony and Silewia would the first points of contact with Munich, Dresden ading south German the first feeling Austrian , Debts Haunt Kaiser Debts are now haunting the Ger. mans Already the Hohenzollerns face the probability of having to re. pudiate nme debt at home in order to square its debts to the world. | ‘This or vast taxation measures to meet the outstanding bonds of $40, 000,000,000, and payments which the peace table will force for territories be would be drive from the the gov at's devastated by the Germans, appears | officials may repudiation of its ple, officials here say people's power su- The Krupps, for example, millions of marks invested in t securities, would be re n. would m preme with nme au y Billions Stolen Estimates of the damage done by the Germans in Belgium place a load of approximately $4,000,000,000 on Germany (Continued on page 4) au) to a position where no longer would constitute a This has grown up Wil helm Must Quit Very Soon | By United Press Lea’ Wire | I Direct to The Btar } COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1—The Vossinche Zeitung says the war cabinet Is discussing abdication of the kalser and that Dr. Del Bruck, chief of the privy coun- cil, will present the abdication document to Wilhelm. PARIS, Nov. 1.—411:25 a. m.) —Members of the inter-allied diplomatic couneil believe the Mapsburg dynasty ts ended and | that an Austrian republic ts like ly to be formed, ‘The kaiser’s abdication also is con sidered to be inevitable, the date only being uncertain Confidential advices to the confer. | ence suggest that the German in ternal situation is momentarily Uke | ly to force his abdication, COPENHAGEN, Nov, 1-—While/ the Tagliamento, pursued by, the “+ | couneis Raiser persiat, no official confirma- tion has been received, according to a dispatch filed in Berlin at mid- night, which was received here to BOHEMIA HAS TWO REPUBLICS AMSTERDAM, Nov. 1.—The Ger man. portion of Bohemia been formally constitute! a repub a Vienna announced has lic dispatch tod German members of the Austrian reicharat elected Herr Pacher ical, as president and selected Reich enberg as the capital apparently hemia, one Two separate states have been formed in E other by the Czechs, The latter constitute about 75 per cent of the population of 6,500,000 They have selected Prague, mid way between Vienna and Berlin, as their capital. Reichenberg, a city of 35,000 is located 58 miles northeast of Prague Senpinee Karl Says Yield to New Order ZURICH, Nov. 1 Pamperor Karl, ‘ore leaving Vienna for Godollo, or dered the authorities to yield unre sistingly to the new regime, accord. ing to advices received here today. The emperor also wired Archduke Joseph to take similar action, The latter, who had pre aly been dew lenated by Karl to take steps toward greater independence for Hungary, left Budapest after a republic had | been proclaimed “Vote for Car Line Purchase,” Urges >) | | Chas. A. Reynold | Charles A. Reynolds, former chairman of the state pub- in less than three miles of Auden-|Ji¢ service commission, and the most progressive member a rad) HORDES OF PRISONERS ARE TAKEN Austrian Battle Front Col- | lapses and Flocks of Men Are Nabbed IVICTORY 1S GROWING \ ty United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star | ESR a> calidad | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—The | Italian advance is continuing on | a front of more than 125 miles, despite the Austrian appeals for an immediate armistice, it was | officially reported in = dispatch | from Gen. Diaz to the Italian erabaasy here today. the new regime. EMPEROR KARL FLEES; YIELDS TO NEW REGIME Emperor Karl has practically abandoned his shattered government at Vienna. A Zu- rich dispatch declares that before leaving *! Vienna for his castle at Godollo he ordered ,|the authorities to yield without resistance to The Austrian government appears to be disin- tegrated, according to’all reports today, and the socialists are evidently in power. | Dispatches from Copenhagen announcéd that a pro- |visional workmen’s and soldiers’ council has been formed in Vienna—such as was organized to handle the Russian gov- The Austrians, the dispatch said.‘ ernment after the revolution. Karl's action is believed to have retreated precipitately beyond) have meant the turning over of the government to this | tied forces under Dune d'Aosta. | (Phe, Tagiiamento, which forms the | principal defensive line between the | Plave and the Ixonzo, flown from 20 to 30 miles inside the farthest east etn boundary of Italy.) The Italian Fourth army ts ad vancing in the Grappa region against the Austrians who were cut off by the left wing of the Third army These enemy forces, believed to num ber more than 100,000, are offering heavy resistance. forces have evacuated Udine, abandoning vast quanti- ties of war materials and sup- plies in their hasty flight, a dis- | patch to the Italian embassy to | day reported, It had been used since last No- vember as the headquarters of the enemy government in the oc- cuplied Italian territory. Udine is 45 miles from the Plave Italian border. ROME, Nov. 1.--The Italians are completely overrunning the | Venetian plains, The war of- fice announced today that Ital- jan troops have reached Fadalt, 20 miles beyond the Piave, and are rapidly approaching Belluno and Aviano, both of which are 25 miles from the river. The Austrian front in the Grappa region has completely collapsed. It is impossible number of prisoners, who are com ing down from the mountains in flocks. All the enemy's artillery w | tured. cap- LONDON, Nov. 1.-—The Austrian armies east of the Piave are reported to have been split thru the occupa | tion of Ponte Nell¢ Alpi by Italian | troops. Ponte Nelli Alpi is on the Piave! river, four miles northeast of Bellu no, and its capture represents an ad- vance of about 25 miles. At the same time, the Austrians in the Grappa region are believed to have been cut off by the capture of | the important Vadal pass The night communique of the Ital fan war office said the enemy has been completely routed east of the Piave, and retreating in disorder to- | ward the Taglamento river, 30 miles jeast of the Piave, which is the next Lereat defense line before the Isonzo. "The Taglamento les about midway |between the Piave and the Isonzo. | ‘The attack in the Grap the commission ever had, today came out in favor of the) aiso is progressing well, th \street car line deal, by which the city will take over the) cupying Col Caprilie, Co! Bonato, As- cncaut was crossed at|railway properties here of the Puget Sound Traction, Light) Kerhove, and their gains are being & Power Co., for $15,000,000 utility bonds. | This question will be up to the voters at the election exploited beyond the river, An additional penetration of near- ly two miles has been made, making the total advance, since the attack terday, nearly four miles, and additional prisoners, three guns and have been taken, BRITISH TAKE AUSTRIA POS LONDON, Nov. 1.—British cupied the important raflway town Livenza river, the war office announced tod The Livenza has been reached on a four-mile front from Sacile south- ward to Brugnera by troops of the Tenth army (with which Americans are brigaded). next Tuesday. Reynolds’ statement follows: BY CHARLES A. REYNOLDS four ambulances | (Former Chairman of the State Public Service Commission.) I’ll not only vote for the traction deal but will do everything I can in its support. | tion company to give us any We can’t expect the trac- better service than they have |been doing. It’s not to their interest to do so, as they may |have to scrap their line when their franchise expires in 1934, jand they’ve. got to make as much profit as they can before in-|that time. If they set out to make any extensions of their |fantry and mounted troops have oc-| lines now they would be losing money. The traction com- pany’s goal is dividends. Under city operation the goal will |be service. And there’s another thing: | The maintenance of the traction company’s lobby at Olympia has been a temptation to our legislators. It has thad an effect on their integrity which will be removed |when the city takes over the traction system, ~ olone, Mont Prassolan, the Solarola Salient and Mont Spinoncta, | More than 50,000 prisoners and 300 guns have been taken The Germans, according to an un | official report, are withdrawing from Austria, Kerensky Cannot Come to America LONDON, Nov. 1.—The United States government, replying to a query from the British government, | stated that Alexander Kerensky, for: |mer Russian premier, would be bar- red from America. Diplomatic Council May End by Sunday PARIS, Nov. 1.—The inter-allied expressed here todap, | was authoritatively reported to have | Karl-is- to have taken the same. action in Hun- t reported |gary, thru his cousin, Archduke Joseph, at Budapest. The provisional workmen’s and_ soldiers’ council in Vienna is understood to be drawing up plans for a republic. Prisoners are being taken so fast at the front it is impossible to estimate the total. Members of the inter-allied diplomatic council at Ver- sailles not only believe the Hapsburg dynasty is ended, and Austrian and Hungarian severance likely, but that abdica- tion of the kaiser is ohly a matter of days, maybe hours. The Berliner Tageblatt says that Gen. Groener, the re- ported successor of Gen. Ludendorff as head of the German armies, was selected in order to be employed “in connection |with the demobilization.” Meanwhile, the allies have again begun to make im- portant gains on the West front. The British are making good progress in the second day of their advance toward Audenarde and Field Marshal Haig began a new attack south of Valenciennes today. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1.—The national council, after by the German population and the and only 12 miles from the Austro-/consultation with a delegation of thousands of soldiers and officers, decided to establish a provisional workmen's and soldiers’ council, and draw up plans for a new non-monarchi- cal state, according to a Vienna dispatch filed at midnight. | Victpr Adler has been named foreign minister; Herr Leutner, war minister, and Herr Renner, minister of social affairs. All are socialists. The revolutionary movement is growing thruout the country. Vienna is reported to be without food. | Thousands of workmen are reported to be parading the » estimate the streets in Vienna shouting, “Down with the Hapsburgs!” They are being joined by throngs of soldiers returning from the front, bearing red flags. Reign of Anarchy Starts in Shattered Hapsburg Empire *— DISPATCH FROM RAYMOND CLAPPER (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The 8tar) WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Austria appears to be de- | veloping Bolshevism. jwhich may rival Russia, |here today. | their deadly work. The’ Austrian army, helpless on the field, is ready to surrender. Railroads are demoralized behind the lines, leaving the soldiers with jout food and ammunition, This, added to the growing hatred of the | Hapsburgs, makes it impossible for | the Austrian commanders to main | tain milite order, reports say. | Disorde? is growing at home. cores of demonstrations are held daily. Czechs, Jugo-Slavs, Poles and Rumanians are organizing every- where and in some places have al |ready seized control of the govern | ment German-Austrians thru with autocracy. The Bohemians have control in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, while the Germans have established themselves in a near-by city. | Civil war between these two gov. ernments may develop shortly, as jrace feeling is extremely bitter, apparently are Allies May Intervene Hungary's position is even worse. The revolutionary movement is sweeping ything before it, and Count Karolyi, who for years has worked for independence from Aus tria, has been brushed aside by the extremist elements Possibility that allied troops will have to go into Austria and estab was seen by diplomats today, | | A reign of anarchy is evident there, according to diplomatic advices Race hatred and revolutionary fire already have started COUNT TISZA IS MURDERED COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1.—Ceunt Tisza, former Hungarian premier and leader of the Hungarian govern: ment party, has been murdered, ac- cording to a dispatch from Vienna today. He opposed Count Karolyi in the establishment of a separate Hungarjar- state, Count Stephen Tisza was as one of the most sins men of the dual monarchy a Germanophile. He exerted strong influence over the late Em- peror Franz Joseph, and has been called the “Iron Man.” Count Tisza is credited with hav- ing written the dictatorial note to Serbia on the murder of the Aus trian arehduke, which started the war, SNHAGEN, Nov, 1.—Count head of the national council, has wired the Tageblatt that the Bu- diplomatic council meetings will not |lish order and act as arbitrators be-|dapest garrison and police have ac- end before Sunday, was the belief |tween the countless factions there 'knowledged the new council govergr ment. The population is jubilant,

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