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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal
VOLUME XX.
HUNS IN BIG RETREAT BEFORE ITALIANS
EVACUATE SHOD
ON WIDE FRONT TO
TJKE DP NEW LINE
Retreat Is Sequel to Brilliant
French Victory at Monte
Tomba. Making Positions
Untenable
ITALIAN ARMY HEALHI CARTERS
IN NORTHERN ITALY. Wednesday,
Jan 23. —• B' the Associated Press.) —
The enemy has evacuated territory on
ttie northern mountain trout behind
Monte Tcin*a. extending from the Piave
river westward Their defense lines
■lave n«»w been moved back to Monte
Spine nc-ia
Italian patrols making reconnaissances
in the last few days found that the
enemy patrols and sentinels had been
withdrawn and later discovered that
the enemy had abandoned the entire
region.
This retreat is a sequel to the br.l
licnt victory French troops recently
obtained on Monte Tomba, inasmuch
as the enemy's position thereafter be
came untenable
The retirement of the enetny is im
portant as showing that he has even
up his effort to force a passage to the
Venetian plains byway of Monte Tomba
and the west bank of the Piave. at least
;or the present. He is now constructing
defensive works in the rear.
Heavy Artillery Believed
Prelude to Big Battles
NEW YORK. Jan. 34.—« Summary of
European Cables.! —On the western
tor.t in France and Belgium and on
the Italian front, where the contending
armies es the chief belligerents in the
aorld war have displaced little activity
tor som< time, official reports announce
a i esumption of hostilities ot unusual
activity for winter months. While the
operations mentioned in the statements
from the various army headquarters are
of little consequence from a military
view, yet the general extent of the ac
tivity indicates that developments of
considerable magnitude are in immedi
ate prospective
Intensity of the artillery tire has in
creased all along the western front and
raiding parties and air lighting have
ooen resumed under more favorable con
ditions. The success of a German raid
on British trenches west of La Bassee
ts announced by the Brt’.sh official com
munication. which claims, however, that
another hostile party was dispersed
west of Villers Guillain- In the Nieu
port sector the French war office an
nounces the recapture of ground gained
by the enemy* in a raid Wednesday morn
ing. The French statement also says
that the artillery is active in the
‘’haurae wood front and in the sector
of Hill 344 and claims the failure o£
an enemy attempt at the former place.
During' the period from January 17
to 20. ten German airplanes were
brougth down by the French.
More intense artillery firing between
the Adige and Brenta valleys is re
ported in the Italian official statement,
which also tells of small engagements
on the right bank of the Piave and on
the southeastern slopes of Monte Spl
noncia.
King Albert in his reply to Pope
Benedict’s peace note declares that Bel
gium will consent to peace only upon
the guarantee of absolute political, eco
nomic and territorial independence. The
note of the Belgian government con
■ ludes with the declaration that the re
plies of the central empires to the
pope’s note have failed to make mert
tion of the ••undisputed rights of Bel
gium that his holiness has not ceased
to recognize’ami proclaim.’’
French Take Prisoners
In New Successful Raid
PARIS, Jan 24.—A successful raid
east of Auberive in which a few prison
ers were taken, was reported in today’s
official statement.
Italians Are Successful
In Small Surprise Attack
ROME, Jan 24.—A small party of
Italians made a successful surprise at
tack at Capo Site, driving back the
enemy from an advanced post and
barge a quantity of arms and ammuni
tion. today's official statement asserted, j
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AUSTRIAN REVOLT REPORTED
MTIONWIOE CAMPAIGN
OS MOONSHINERS BEGUN
Govern ment Co-operating
With States to Stamp Out
Illicit Distilleries
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.—Discovery
that manufacture of moonshine whisky
is increasing rapidly in "bone dry”
states and that quantities have been
sold illicitly to -soldiers in southern
eamps, caused Internal Revenue Com
missioner Roper to announce today a
nation-wide campaign against illegal
distillation in co-operation with state
governors.
The military camps where moonshine
liquor lias been sold most, in spite ot
precautions by military and civil au
thorities, are Camps Wadsworth, at
Spartanburg, S. C.; Sevier, at Green
ville, S. Jackson, at Columbia. S. C.,
and Oglethorpe, at Chattanooga
Investigations about these and other
camps still are underway. The cam
paign already has resulted in arrests
of hundreds of moonshiners in southern
dry states. State laws forbidding im
portation and the federal tax ot $3.20
a gallon have driven the price of crude
Corr. liquor about many camps to $8
and sl2 a quart, according to evidence
by revenue agents.
Commissioner Roper has obtained
from many governors rpeciiic indorse
ment of the antl-liquor campaign. Some
state executives and local officials, how
ever. wer? reluctant to furnish the start
agents required for the work.
To Clean Out Stills
Special efforts will be made to clean
out stills in the dry states where condi
tions are reported worst. Illegal manu
facture is thriving best in Virginia,
North Carolina. South Carolina, Geor
gia, Tennessee. Arkansas, according'to
reports of revenue agents. State agents
already are at work vigorously in some
of these states
To a lesser degree the traffic in "moun
tain dew' is reported from Florida. Ala
bama, Mississippi. Kentucky. Oklahoma
and a number of other states. Officials
have gathered evidence that in Kansas,
lowa and Oregon illegal manufactory Is
on the increase.
The campaign now planned is the re
sult of a special canvass of dry states
started several monthse ago by direction
of Commissioner Roper. An experienced
revenue agent was sent to confer with
the governors of dry states and to gath
er evidence of uncurbed liquor manu
facture in those states. The governors
were told that the force of federal in
spectors is inadequate to ferrets «out the
thousands of hidden stills and obtain
evidence on which to base prosecutions.
The task is made particularly difficult
because the scheme of giving bonuses to
informants on illicit stills has been
abandoned. The government has ceased
to have a revenue interest in dry states,
it was explained, and the burden of
Georgian Befuses
Officials pointed out today that moon
shiners in dry states now are breaking
not pnly feedral revenue and state pro
hibition laws, but also the food act for
bidding use of grain and fruits in man
ufacture of liquor.
The open refusal or ill-coneea’.ed re
luctance of mlny sheriffs and other lo
cal officials to assist government agents
in running down moonshiners was a fac
tor in causing Commissioner Roper to
anonunce the open campaign. The case
of a north* Georgia sheriff who refused
to aid on the ground that the county
officers were "in favor of whisky" was
cited in this connection.
A report presented today to Commis
sioner Roper by Chief Revenue Agent
Nutt shows that nearly 80 per cent of
the illegal stills seized recently in Vir
ginia were in Patrick. Wise. Franklin.
Pittsylvania. Halifax and Henry coun
ties. Conditions have been found to be
bad in Mecklenberg. Floyd. Carroll
Grayson. Nelson. Amherst. Madison,
Greeia Dickinson and Buchanan coun
ties.
In North Carolina, 54 of the 100
counties are known as “good moonshine
territory" and nearly 700 stills have
been seized and destroyed in a year,
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I GERMANY SEETHES
WITH DISCONTENT
ON EVE OF SPEECH
Chancellor Hertling to Address
Reichstag in • Atmosphere
Surcharged With Ominous
Mutterings at Home
LONDON, Jan. 24.—The impressions
conveyed in today's dispatches
from Switzerland and Holland regard
ing the internal situation in Germany
on the eve of Chancellor von Hertling’s
expected address before the reichstag
is one of discontent among the masses
suppressed the triumphant hand of
the military party.
Efforts of the German censorship to
prevent public knowledge ol the Aus
trian strikes and peace demands suc
ceeded for a time, but the news leaked
through gradually and Austrian events
seem now to be widely known by Ger*
man workers.
The Austrian hope that the latter
would follow their lead has not, how
ever, materialized, while German news
papers , which ventured to hold out a
hand to the Austrian proletariat have
been suppressed. Nevertheless, accord
ing, to the Post's Amsterdam dispatches,
the rebellious sentiments of German
workers, especially Independent social
ists, are becoming stronger. This is
partly attributable to the altitude of the
German delegates at the Brest-Litovsk
conference which caused widespread dis
content as was manifested by the tu
multuous scenes at numerous meetings
Os the fatherland party.
Wilson Sowed Seeds
The Dutch Catholic journal Tyd prints
an article received through an indirect
channel from its correspondent in Ger
many in which he says that “events
at Brest-Litovsk and President Wilson's
new peace formula, which in wide cir
cles is considered a suitable basis for
the regulation of society of the future,
have prepared the ground for the Bol
sheviki tendency."
"It is recognized in educated circles,"
says the writer, "that the wooden horse
has been .brought In at Brest-Litovsk
and there is anxiety lest the German
attitude in the negotiations may lead to
a division among the people. The
masses turned away from the veiled
annexationist lust of power formulated
by General Hoffman.” ‘
Continuing tire writer speaks of the
rebellious temper of the factory popula
tion ’tn the industrial centers and adds:,
“No wonder fear fs expressed here
and there that the people, disgusted wjth
the postponed suffrage reform, furious
with the pan-Germans, exhausted in
body and fortune, and deprived of the
hope of the restoration of national and
individual happiness will itself take
the settlement of Its lot into its own
hands if any great military setback is
suffered. The failure of separate peace I
with Russia would also give the signal
for an incalculable reaction at a mo
ment when the nervous strain is well ,
nigh unbearable."
Imoprtant Conferences
An incident in the Saxon lower house i
on Monday, the Tyd correspondent says
is indicative of the popular sentiment. ,
The king of Saxony recently sent a tele
gram to the fatherland v party advocat
ing a "safe peace.” This was sharply
censured by the Socialists in the cham
ber. The Socialist vice president,
Frassedorf, said that the king was hazi
ly misinformed and badly advised by
his ministers and declared that the peo
ple took quite a different standpoint
from the fatherland party.
It is in such an atmosphere, if re
ports quoted are accurate, that Chancel
lor von Hertling meets the reichstag to
speak to his own eountryment and the
world. His newspaper supporters say
that the chancellor is in no wise shaken
by the recent politicaJ crisis, but on the
contrary he has the emperor’s full con
fidence. Important conferences are re
ported to have been renewed on Mon
day. Tuesday end Wednesday wherein
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, General
von Ludendorff. Chancellor von Hertling
and Dr. von Kuehlmann, secretary for
foreign affairs, participated with the
emperor.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918.
fl (HIED, » HURT
DURING BIDE 111 MOSCOW
Hun Delegates to Peace Con
ference Deliver Ultimatum
to Russians
PETROGRAD, Jan. 24.—Forty per
sons were killed and 200 wounded in
riots at Moscow on Tuesday during a
demonstration at anniversary celebra
tion of "bloody Sunday."
Hoffman Insists on
Annexation Terms
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 33.
Russia must give up Courland and all
the Baltic provinces or the Germans
will resume miltary operations and oc
cupy Reval within a week, the German
delegation at the Brest-Litovsk nego
tiations, informed the Russian repre
sentatives at the last session of the con
ferees. An adjournment was taken un
til January 29 to permit the Russians
to consider the German terms.
Reports of the session indicate that
the Germans took a definite stand and .
most frankly outlined demands upon
which they are insistent. The secre
tary of the Ukrainian delegation gave
out an account of the meeting. It says
the Russians put a question to the dele
gates of the central powers as to what
were their final peace terms.
General Hoffman, one of the German
delegates, replied by opening a map and
pointing out the following line, which
they insisted should constitute the fu
ture frontier of Russia:
From the shores of the Gulf of Fin
land to the east of the Moon Sound
islands to Valk, to the west of Minsk,
to Brest-Litovsk.
This completely eliminates Courland
and all the Baltic provinces.
The Russians asked the terms of the
central powers in regard to the terri
tory south of Brest-Litovsk. General
Hoffman replied that was a question
which they would discuss only with
Ukraine. M- Kameneff, a member of
the Russian delegation, asked:
“Supposing we do not agree to such
conditions, what are you going to do?"
General Hoffman's answer is reported
to have been:
"Within a week then we would occupy
Reval.”
The Russian then asked for a recess
which was granted reluctantly. The
Germans declared it was the last post
ponement to which they would consent.
The request was njade by Leon Trotzky,
head of the Russian delegation, who said
'he desired an opportunity to lay the
German peace terms before the council |
of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates.
The negotiations between the Ukrai
nians and the central powers are pro
ceeding amicably. The Austrians of
fered to cede Cholmtchlna to the Ukrai
nian republic but only on condition that
the Ukrainians send grain and other
foodstuffs to the central powers imme-
I diately on tiie conclusion of peace.
GM GIGS CAPTURED
: iii com counit
Officer Cates Arrests Last of
• Three Escaped Convicts
From Utoy Camp
After a three-day chase, Dan Carr, ,
the last of the four convicts who es
caped from the Utoy camp early Mon
day morning, was captured about 6
o'clock Wednesday night in Coweta
county by County Officer C. L. Cates.
The fugitive was taken at a point ■
about ten miles from Palmetto and
some eight miles from the Atlanta and
West Point railroad line, toward which
it is thought he was making his way.
He had secured civilian clothes in
some manner and was wearing an over
coat when arrested by the officer. When
and how he disposed of his stripes he
refused to reveal. Carr also carried a
razor, but with this exception was
without weapons.
Officer Cates, who, by the way, cap
tured Carr when he attempted to escape
a few months ago, had gone on ahead
of the pursuing posse and dogs and cut
in on a road where Carr might be ex
pected to pass. He soon caught sight of
the convict, who refused to halt at the
command of Officer Cates, but continued
running in a new direction. Cates fired
four times and Carr finally threw up
his hands, begging the officer not tc
kill him. County Officer C. E. Lyle
came up at this juncture and Carr was
taken back to the Utoy camp.
Carr, J. P. Keel, Lunsford and
Lloyd Brewer escaped from the Utoy
camp before daybreak Monday, sawing
their chains and smashing the lock on
the guardroom door while the guards
were in the kitchen. Brewer was re
captured within a few hours, while
! Lunsford was overtaken Monday after-
I noon. Keel was arrested Tuesday
• night while attempting to steal an au
’ tomobile on the Campbellton road.
SI,OOO From Sale of
i Sugar Seized at Illicit
Stills Declared Forfeited
_
Approximately SI,OOO obtained
i through the sale of sugar seized by fed
eral agents at illicit stills was declared
forfeited Wednesday afternoon to the
I United States government by Judge
William T. Newman, in the United
■ States district court.
The sugar was seized September 14. |
' last year, at Henry McKee’s barn in j
IvUinpkin county, by deputy collectors of
i internal revenue and deputy United |
; States marshals. The property was
i claimed by M. M. Anderson, a merchant
of Dawsonville.
I Tn a similar case the court Friday ’
morning forfeited to the government
money obtained as a result of the sale i
of 1,400 pounds of sugar claimed by >
John Anderson, brother of M. M. An- :
| derson.
Sen. Chamberlain Answers
Wilson in Senate Speech
Declares President Is Ignorant
of True Situation and In
efficiency of War Depart
ment Officials
WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.—Standing
firmly by his charge that America’s mil
itary establishment is enmeshed in in
efficiency, Senator Chamberlain, of Ore
gon. chairman of the military commit
tee, replied in the senate today to Presi
dent Wilson’s denunciation of his recent
New York speech, by repeating the
statement which drew the president’s
fire, and declaring that the president
himself does not know the truth.
Senator Chamberlain read a letter re
ceived from President Wilson opposing
the creation of a minister of munitions.
; He said he did this to counteract the
I president’s charge that he had not been
consulted regarding proposed legisla
tion.
After speaking nearly three hours.
Senator Chamberlain concluded with a
plea that he was only doing his duty
in arousing the country to its danger,
and that he would support the presi
dent although "grossly maligned.” Sen
ator Kirby, of Arkansas, a Democrat,
took up the reply.
Senator Chamberlain declared he would
show that the deaths of the hundreds
and thousands of men at cantonments
and camps were due to the war depart
ment and “that all epidemics could have
been prevented if the war department
had been effective.”
Six thousand people clamored for ad
mittance to senate galleries which hold
fewer than 1,000. Not since the presi
dent’s war declaration message has
there been such excitement at the cap
itol as developed today.
In beginning his address, Senator
Chamberlain said the president had at
tacked both his veracity and integrity,
heretofore unchallenged, but that in re
plying he did so without any personal
feeling against the president.
"For twenty-four years.” Senator
Chamberlain said, “I have served the
public in my state to the best of my
ability and in all that time I have never
had by veracity called in question nor
my integrity Impeached, and I have
passed through some -bitter campaigns.
llt is, therefore, with some feeing of
humiliation and also sadness that I rise
to a question of pers’onaJ privilege when
my veracity has been called in question,
not by an ordinary citizen; not by one
of my colleagues but by a very distin
guished gentleman who has the love
and admiration ofthe people and who
by their suffrage occupies the highest
place in the gift of the people and, I
may say, the highest place of any man
in the world.
"It is therefore with much feeling
that I rise to address myself to the at
tack made upon me and I do so without
any feeling of unkindness."
Country Involved • *■
"These personal charges against me
amount to nothing to |he American peo
ple but affect policies which may in
volve the future of this country if not
th® entire world.”
Senator Chamberlain said he had been
invited to speak before the National
Security league, accepted on short no
tice and without time to prepare an
address. He recalled that on the dais
with him were Alton B. Parker, Theo
dore Roosevelt and Julius Kahn and
that the audience was "a representative
body that for patriotism can not be ex
celled by any like body in the United
States.” He then reiterated that he as
symed responsibility for the speech as
reported by newspapers and had read
to the senate a verbatim report pub
lished in the New York Times.
Senator Chamberlain, after having
read to the senate a verbatim copy of
the speech for which the president de
nounced him, declared that he adhered
to what he had said.
Press Reports Accurate
Upon his return to Washington. Sena
tor Chamberlain said he received a letter
from President Wilson containing a quo
tation from the New York World and
asking if the quotation was correct. The
president wrote that he did not like to
comment on the statement until he knew
positively that the senator had actually
made them.
The letter was received too late for
a reply Sunday, Senator Chamberlain
continued, "but in a letter sent to the
White House the following day, he re
plied that he had been quoted substan
tially correct in the World, but asked
the president to read the entire speech
as printed in the Times instead of only
a part of it.
Senator Chamberlain's letter added
that he was discussing only the policy
"or lack of policy” of the military es
tablishment. After stating his exper
ience in the military affairs and testi
mony in the committee’s investigations,
the senator’s letter continued:
"I believe I know something about
the deficiencies m the military establish-
I ment. deficiencies which are clearly rec
ognized and proven in a system
that ought to be remodeled for the prop
er prosecution of the war and
have these disjointed and unco-ordinat
ed defects weeded out.”
Received No Reply
In his letter the senator also offered
to go over the whole situation with the
president, but said he received no reply
; and on the following day the president's
statement criticizing him was published.
wh>?h statement 1 adhere and repeat
i before this body.
"The people of this country may not
see this as I do. but as chairman of the
! military committee, as an American
citizen and a member of this distin
' guished body I felt that I should say
; the things that are in me and if 1
succeed in making a rift in the clouds
through which the American people may
: see I w|l feel that my efforts have
I not been in vain.”
"Now that my truthfulness lias been
questioned," Senator Chamberlain co:i
--| tinued. "1 feel it my duty to tell the
j country something I might not have
told It under ordinary circumstances.
GOYEIMMENT CDNTROL
MB ENIERGEKCI MOIE
Administration Bill Modified
So as to Remove Fear of
Ultimate Ownership
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. —The admin
istration railroad bill has been modified
to stipulate expressly that federal op
eration is undertaken as a war emer
gency measure, and shall not prejudice
the future policy of the government to
ward ownership of the roads. No specific
time, however, is fixed for turning the
roads back to private owners.
I do it as a man who loves his country
best of all and who would willingly give
his life for it 1 do it fearlessly in an
American citizen who desires to help
and not to hinder.”
Buying Supplies Prom France
He repeated he had not distorted the
truth in his speech made in New York,
but that owing to the great rush of
business due to the war the president
has probably not been able to ascer
; tain the truth and does not know the
' truth. From the lips of those closest
' to the president, the chief executive can
not learn the truth, not because his ad
' visers desire to misled him, but be
cause they are situated in the same
positjon as he. * •
"The secretary of war, in a general
statement tothe country which was
carefully and ably prepared, tells us
that $3,200,000,000 have been appro
priated for the ordnance department
and that contracts for $1,677,000,000
have been awarded,’’ he continued. "This
is true, but the secretary failed to tell
the country that America failed to
stand prepared"
"France, bled white,” he continued, "is
furnishing America today and the troops
going abroad with heavy ordnance, ma
chine guns and airplanes. If we re
lied on the ordnance department in this
emergency, (and this is a war of ar
tillery) Lis war would be completed
before we ever got enough to the front.
France agreed to deliver this artillery.
To win America? Did she furnish it in
order to invite America?” *
It was improper, he said, to give de
tails cf American purchases of .ordnance
from the aGEes. but referred senators
to the confidential testimony before the
comm ttee by Major General Crozier,
chief of ordnance.
“If the administration had wanted to
be feir to the American people,” he
shouted, “why didn’t the distinguished
secretary of war, and I have the high
est regara fcr him, let the people know
so that the people could assist in get
t’ng leady for this terrible calamity
that confronts-not only America but the
whole world ’
Attacks Ordnance Bureau
Senator Chamberlain charged that the
ordnance bureau failed in 1916 to pre
pare for war when it s*eemed certain.
"There were omens in the sky,” he
continued, "that America couldn’t Veep
out. What was the ordnance department
doing? Nothing. It was lying supinely
on its back, not making gauges for
manufacturing ordnance nor discovering
the possibilities of manufacturing—but
doing nothing, absolutely nothing.”
appropriations for jigs and dies to
make ordnance, he said, had not been
used. I’m not blaming anybody in par
ticular,” the senator continued. "I have
high regard for General Crozier. But
we haven’t been able to do what Eng
land, France and aJI our other allies
have done and that is to retire these
gentlemen who have not proven them
selves up to the mark. We ought not
to dismiss them in disgrace, but in other
countries they have gone into innocuous
desuetude.
"This isn’t a question of personali
ties. This is not a question between
the president of the United States and
myself. It’s a question of America, and
every man ought to make it his whole
purpose to see that America is saved.”
Machine Gun Situation
“Take the machine gun,” said senator
Chamberlain. "It’s an old controversy
and much may be said on both sides. The
Lewis gun has been manufactured here
for the British army and there are 7,000
of them on the battle fronts. Every
British officer I have seen has expressed
approval of that gun. America was pre
pared to produce them but with the
country standing on a seething volcano
the ordnance department was trying to
decide on a gun. The war department
didn’t even adopt a gun until May, and
finally adopted it in June. 1917. I believe,
and then only on paper and it still is a
gun on paper. It never has had a field
test. May be the Browning gun is a
good weapon but the Lewis is doing
good work. Why not manufacture the
Lewis guns?”
The secretary of war testified before
the committee, he recalled, that in Sep
tember the United States had nine
Browning guns "with which to go out
The president’s statement and Sena
tor Chamberlain’s reply then were read
to the senate, and the Oregon senator
observed:
"I do not Know if any reply to my
i lett-y was necessary. I assume that
state-rent is the answer.”
"The statement of the president chai- I
lenses me, of course, for proof of the j
statement in the New York Times ‘p |
against the millions of Germany.” He de-I
nounced the cry that investigation gives
information to the enemy.
People Should Know
"Germany knows more about America
today than the men conected with the
departments,” Senator Chamberlain de
clared. If the government would be
frank with the people, “then we could
rely upon the people to rally to the sup
port of the president and the prosecu
tion of the war,” he added.
Great Britain, he said, did not waste
time manufacturing guns. The United
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NUMBER 35.
WIRELESS PICKED DP i
■ 81 PEffIOGMD TELLS
: OF VIEMIW
’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs irf
I Russia Announces Receipt ofi
Message Telling of Revolu
tion in Austria
; [ GERMANS ABOUT
: AS BAD OFF AS
THE AUSTRIANS
COPENHAGEN, Jan. ”4.——**Ti*e
German government is' playing with
fire; Germany’s situation ts but little
different /from Austria’s.”
Philip Scheidemann, leader of the
German majority socialists so warn
> cd the German authorities in a speech
before the main committee of the
reichstag. reported in the socialist
i organ, Vorwaerts, received here to
day.
’• X—
PETROGRAD, Jan. 24.—-A wireless
message received by he Bolsheviki o
day announced a revoluion in Vienna
The dispatch was received by Smolny
Institue, headquarters of the Trotzgy-
Lenine government.
It decided that the revolutionists e hav»
named a provisional cabinet
i The minister of foreign affairs made
i the message public. He declared the
report as received did not give the
names of the provisional ministry nor
any further details than the bare men
i tion of the revolution.
The message to the Smolny Institute
is the first rumor of an actual revolu
tionary movement in Austria-Hungary.
Dispatches tor the past week have re
ported great social and economic unreat
in the dual empire. The people were re\
ported Incensed at the militarist,
annexationist attitude of Teutonic peace
delegates at Brest-Litovsk. They were
represented as crying out for peace, to
end a war weariness constantly increas
ing and manifest through a general
strike throughout the tdual monarchy.
The Bolsheviki from the very first
have sought unceasingly to overthrow
the Teutonic government by a movement |
of the people—precisely as the Russian I
people overthrew the czar. They went I
a step further than President Wilson K
has urged. Bolshevik’ propagandists be- M
gan sowing the seed of a social uprls- ■
ing immediately after the armistice be- ■
came effective on the northern fronts.
The closest fraternization between
sians and Austrians was noted every- W
where. Russian revolutionary literature W
was spred broadcast.
About ten days ago Swiss reports car
ried rumors of a general striks move- ,
ment gaining headway in Emperor Karl’s
nation. Apparently this started in Hun
gary—which has always been restive
under Austrian domination and whose
people are racially related to th# Rus
sians.
Budapest was the scene of a number
of demonstrations for peace; newspapers
there openlj* denounced German junker
leaders as endangering all hopes of peace
with Russia through their insistence on
annexationist aims.
Vienna apparently joined next in the
general unrest. A number of strikes
were reported nearly a week ago. Food
demonstrations followed. The general
strike movement spread rapidly through
out the nation. Austria immediately
clapped on a rigid censorship. Her
frontiers were ordered closed. But even
through this veil occasional reports sift
ed into Switzerland indicating almost
complete parlysis of Industry in Aus
tria-Hungary.
It is possible that with the Bolsheviki
wish for a revolution in Austria-Hun
gary father to the thought, Smolny in
stitute dispatches may be merely an ex
aggerated report of the general strike
movement. As against this, however, is
the fact that such a message was ac
tually received by wireless—indicating
that some revolutionary force in the
country may have control of this system
of communication.
Dispatches from Washington during
the past two days have expressed the
American government’s warning to all
people that the Teutonic autocrats would
not be above a ’gigantic hoax in spread
ing broadcast the impression that con
ditions in the central empires were
near the breaking point—the scheme be
ing thus to influence Americans to re-*
lax war preparations under the belief
that President Wilson’s plea to the Ger
man peoples to form a democratic gov
ernment had borne fruit.
Russia is peculiarly susceptible
ground for Germanic propaganda at the
present time. It is entirely within the
bounds of conjecture that the Germans
may have “planned” such a wireless
message with the hope that the Bolshe
viki enthusiasts would hurry to accept
the separate peace proposals of Ger
many and her allies on the assumption
that the Germanic peoples were ready
to join with the Russian proletariat.
200.000 Austrian Strikers
Still Holding Out in Vienna
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 24.—Austrian
socialist leaders are “experiencing diffi
culty in controlling the extremists of
their party.” according to delayed mes
sages received today from Vienna.
The dispatches reported 200,000 Vien
nese still striking. At Budapest th*
strike partially continues.
No Confirmation of Revolt
Can Be Had in London
LONDON, Jan. 24.—Up to' 10:15
o’clock today there was no confirmation
here of the Smolny institute wireless
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