SIMMERING FIRES AND RED REVOLUTION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2637, 7 December 1915, Page 5

SIMMERING FIRES AND RED REVOLUTION

AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS' MANIFESTO. Bj. Tolecraph—Frees Association—Oopyrlcbl Geneva, December 5. The Austrian Socialist party . has secretly distributed a manifesto in this country, stating; "The truth has been hidden in Austria. We have not had liberty in Austria. The regime has now become terrible, and since the war .there has been neither a Constitution nor justice, and the executioners will have much/ work. The cilivised world will shiver with" horror when it knowß what is being done in Austria.We oan only speak of the death penalties passedon citizen whose only crime was tho exchange of social ideas. Herr Lapger was hanged ' because ho published a book asking for peace. This is how the Austrian Governjnent acts, while pretending to fight barbarism.' This is why we are asking internationals to save us before we become slaved, and he compelled to be enthusiastic Czechs or Italian Slavians. We liavo been' forced to make manifestations of patriotism "and subscribe to loans. We do not want Austria to be victorious; we want hor defeat. Austria declared war on the pretext that she was delivering Poland; now she wants to subject her to a Hapsburg dictatorship. If a real Parliament existed, Austria's shameful ultimatum to Sew.a would never have been sent. We will now begin to fight for a republic. We want revolution, not war. After tho war we shall imitate the French Revolution. Austria can only live by the ruin of the Hapsburgs." The manifesto declares that tho annexation of Belgian and French territory is a crime, and 'concludes:—"Austria is suffering terribly by tho war, and will be first to bo ruined thereby."