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May 29.
Austrian Revolt Is At Hand
Emperor Karl Sitting on a Volcano
Kaiser Gets Busy To Stop It
London. —Disruption of the Austro-
Hungarian dual monarchy is at hand.
Dispatches from Budapest, Vienna and
other points in Austria and Hungary,
as well as from Berlin, indicate clearly
that Emperor Karl is sitting on a vol
cano, which is emitting bursts of flame
and threatens at any moment to break
into full eruption.
Despite all that Kaiser Wilhelm and
the imperial advisers can do to prevent
it, the common people of the dual mon
archy are rapidly approaching the point
where the smallest provocation will bring
about a revolution.
The cabinet changes in Austria and
Hungary, the crown council hastily called
by the kaiser at great headquarters last
week to consider the Austrian problem,
the territorial concessions made by Aus
tria to Hungary and to Germany, all have
for their purpose the prevention at all
costs of the threatened dismemberment
of the monarchy.
But the Slavs of southern Europe are
dying of starvation and penury. They
have suffered nearly four years as the
vassals of Germany without realizing any
of the grandiloquent promises made by
their emperor and Kaiser Wilhelm. They
want freedom. And it is only a question
of days when they will arise and demand
it.
Vienna dispatches admit that the po
litical situation is most desperate. Food
riots are common. Austria cannot feed
her own people, much less the Magyars
of Hungary. She has turned to Germany
for help, asking Berlin to ration some
of the nations of Hungary.
But Berlin, too. is hungry. Where is
the food to come from?
Absolute famine before the first of July
now menaces all of Austria-Hungary. It
is this, together with the threat of revo
lution. that is believed to be delaying the
Austrian offensive against Italy.
In the effort to still the cry for politi
cal reform, Premier Kekerle of Hungary
has announced that the government is
determined to push a franchise reform
measure through parliament. In the face
of the crisis the opposition, headed by
Count Tisza, has agreed to some of the
reforms.
The amendments framed by Wekerle’s
new cabinet provide that citizens who
now lack the right to vote shall obtain
that right by giving .proof of sufficient
education to have passed through four
classes of the national school and to mas
ter the Hungarian language.
Workmeh are also to be given the right
to vote. The government promises that
social, ecnomic and military reform will
follow tho extension of suffrage.
But these concessions have not pacl
.fled the Slavic races. They want to vote
for their own rulers.
The most significant action they have
taken was at a meeting at Agram. Rep
resentatives of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-
Herzeg vonia, Dalmatia. Ist ria and Med
jumurje were present, and "despite police
interference held several sessions.
They passed resolutions demanding the
immediate creation of an independent
state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbians on
a democratic basis, free from entangle
ments such as Germany had forced on
Lithuania and the other "free” Russian
states.
The Jugo-Slav party leaders are active
ly and successfully effecting a concen
tration of their forces in other parts of
the country.
They will have hard sledding. Ger
many is determined to prevent any such
dismemberment of the dual monarchy. It
would embarrass the plans of the pan-
Germanists. It would close the free pass
age to. the sea from the south which has
been their dream. It would prevent, ac
cess to Trieste and the Adriatic.
So, at the instigation of Berlin, Em
peror Karl has made further concessions
to Hungary, which include adding Dal
matia and Crotia to the Hungarian crown
lands. Vienna also proposes to annex
Bosnia and Herzegovina to Hungary.
But the fight for an independent south
ern Slavic state has not been impeded.
One attempt was made by organizing a
Germanophile, anti-Jugo-Slav party at
Sarajevo, Serbia, to combat the move
ment, but it failed almost before it start
ed.
Ask Aid of Allies.
The Slav leaders declare the allies can
help them materially by declaring defi
nitely as one of their war aims for the
termination of the Austro-German alli
ance and the dismemberment of the Aus
trian empire.
They cannot understand how tho Allies
can hope to win the mastery of Europe
so long as Austria remains the connecting
link between Germany and the Balkans.
The Teutonic inhabitants of Austria
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begin to realize that the monarchy is
doomed, and are starting to flutter under
the protecting wings of Germany. At a
congress of Germans in the Austrian
Tyrol, Germany was asked to establish
Germanic state institutions and constitu
tional law in Austria—a step preliminary
to Germanization of the entire empire.
Even into the very imperial palace at
Vienna his troubles have followed Em
peror Karl. Strained relations between
the emperor and the empress have re
sulted from the revelations made by Pre
mier Clemenceau of France, it is said.
The Empress Zita is a Bourbon of
strong French predilections, and it is re
ported that it was she who was respon
sible for the now famous letter Karl
wrote to Prince Sixtus of Bourbon, in
which he suggested tho restoration to
Franace of Alsace and Lorraine.
When the emperor was forced to re
pudiate the letter, the empress, it is de
clared. became very angry.
These are straws which show that the
Austrian wind is blowing much good for
the Entente Allies.
Some Famous Sayings by Famous
Men.
Bill Crowley—Any mail Stockert?
Geo. Feiglie—Me goil still loves me.
Louis Boudon—Shave or a haircut?
Our Three Lieutenants —"Where’s Ad
ams?”
Rhoades—Fall in!
Sergt. Van Patten —Always a good
Word for everybody.
David Peterson—Not a word.
The Whole 601st—Where do we go from
here boys?
Murray Burgold—Hey Rice?
Canaday—"Say Sarg.”
Our Middle Name.
Forward
And
Trounce
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Everything.
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? to shake Foot-Ease in their?
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(your Druggist or Dep’t store to mail to?
>your friends in training camps and ins
(the army and navy. >
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