Emperor Karl ready to abdicate

November 5, 1918

The latest bulletins from the New York Times and other media provide details of "further evidence of discord and turmoil" in Austria-Hungary, as the "Czech National Committee, which the aid of Czech troops, is disarming German-Austrian and Hungarian troops in the Czech towns of Bohemia and Moravia."  This report is based on a dispatch from Prague to the Lokal-Anzeiger, a Berlin newspaper.  The Czechs are also occupying several German towns.\
The Associated Press has issued the following dispatch from Basle regarding the status of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor:  "Emperor  Charles of Austria-Hungary is determined to abdicate and will retire to Switzerland, German newspapers say.
"The Emperor made this announcement, it is stated, during a conference on Saturday with the new Austrian Government and other influential leaders in the Dual Monarchy."
This report, however, contrast a "sign of submergence of the monarchy, " according to a Berne dispatch to the Associated Press.
"The Croatian Diet, meeting at Agram, had adopted unanimously a resolution calling for the re-establishment of the Austrian kingdom and uniting Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia with independent Austria."
According to a dispatch sent from Budapest to Amsterdam, Archduke Josef of Austria and his son, Archduke Josef Franz, have taken an oath to "submit unconditionally to the orders of the National Council of Hungary and to support it in all its decrees."