AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1918, Page 3

AUSTRIA INTERNALLY.

'PK» CRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT, j AN INDEPENDENT HUNGARY AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20 Count Karolyi, ex-Hungarian Premier, has introduced in the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, a resolution asking for the separation of Hungary from Austria., eeonomiaelly and militarily, with the right of managing her own foreign politics. Karolyi remarks: "The war is lost and our alliance with Germany must not bo maintained. SOUTHERN SLAY STATE WANTED. LONDON, Oet. 20. ' Reuter learns that a meeting of the Southern Slav Committee in London, representing seven millions of people in Austro-Hungary lias rejected Emperor Karl’s manifesto of Wednesday last, providing for a Slav-State in Austria. The meeting emphasised its determination to sever every tie with the Hapslnirgs. VIEW FROM AUSTRIA. (■Received Tbi, P.n nt ID ffi. i m t NEW YORK, Oct. 20. Frederick Penfiold, formerly United , States Ambassador in Austria, interviewed at an Atlantic city, said' he I strongly approved of Mr Wilson’s reply to Austria. When he left Austria last I spring everybody seemed weary of the war. The last words the Emperor said to him were: " Please tell Mr Wilson that I want peace, peace peace, and will do anything possible to secure peace.”

Mr Penfiold added: “Hungarians in their hearts despise Germany. Probably two-thirds of the people of Hungary approve of Mr Wilson’s attitude and resent being chained to the Kaiser’s chariot.’’