FERMENT IN VIENNA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1898, 2 November 1918, Page 4

FERMENT IN VIENNA.

REVOLUTION ARY PLACARDS. A Russian who lias reached a neutral country I'rom KielT, via Vienna. reports that the ferment in the Austrian capital is developing, says the Morning Post. Not only, he says, is revolution talked about and advdeated on all hands, but small revolutionary placards are found stuck on the walls and even inside railway carriages. The Ileichspost of Vienna publishes an article apropos of the negotiations opened at Salzburg in. connect ion with the economic side of the new German Austro-Hungarian Alliance, which doubtless relieds the views held in leading German circles in Austria. These views are exposed so ditinite!y and are so obviously the programme of the Germans in Austria that they will bear literal quotation. The article commences as follows : What is now being done to consolidate and to. develop the alliance of (he Central Powers is more important. limn all the other peace questions. Peace can, only be (he organic outcome of the-alliance. When we have thoroughly consolidated the alliance we shall also have peace. Without the alliance the most: advantageous peace would be of no bench! to ns; it would be based and concluded on sand. The question of individual peace terms loses importance as soon as I he alliance is (irmly established, for onr strength, our security and our welfare in the future will not depend so much on formal terms of peace as upon the internal strength and the independent vital energy of the organic alliance, it is not the gaining of certain external victories, not conquests, and not the (hast met ion of the adversary that arc the essential aims of this world contest, but the strengthening and maintenance of the Central Alliance. Once we have conquered ourselves and arc (irmly united in alliance we shall have attained our chief aim, and everything else will follow, The attempts to reach onr adversaries with offers of peace have proved inelfeetnal. Every peace speech by a Minister, by a Democrat, by a Paeilist, or by a. philanthropist has had no other effect than to postpone peace and to increase the frenzy and determination of our adversaries to continue the war. We have not heen able to impress them with our victories, our conquests, and our readiness to conclude peace; we can im;(re;-> them only with our firm, or- ■ >iiuie alliance, winch will include the axis of the world hy this Central European Alliance with the Orient, an alliance that they, owing 1 to the eccentric and inorganic disunion of the various members of their own’ alliance, cannot imitate.