AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.

AUSTRIAN PEACE STRIKES.

FAILURE AT BEEST LITOVSK.

MEANS AUSTEIA’S DEFECTION.

LONDON, January 24. The “Daily News” correspondent at Geneva reports that the strikes in Bohemia and Croatia, continue, 'hut that elsewhere wor kis being generally resumed. It is becoming hourly more apparent that the w r orkers have gained a remarkable triumph. The Government restored only by capitulating to the strikers. If the Brest Litovsk negotiations result in a Russian peace, the Austrian workers will remain quiet, but failure of the negotiations will lead to events of tremendous importance. Berlin realises that a breakdown of the negotiations -will mean Austria’s defection. There was a remarkable procession of ten thousand women in Vienna, carrying peace banners, on Monday afr ternoon. Violent anti-German speeches were made at fourteen 1 great peace meetings that night-.-

CZECHO SLOVAK DEMANDS,

PREMIER HOWLED DOWN,

COPENHAGEN, January 24.

Davon Seilder’s reply in the Austrian ■Eeiehsrath, in which he rejected the

e Czech resolution in favour of an inti dependent, Czecho-Slovak State, pro- . voked with scenes. The Czech violently gesticulating,' surrounded Dr &voril<Beidler>- shouting, ‘Lair! Resign! ■ and;iinally compelled 1 the abandon- .; meat of Ms speech/ Dr. von Seidler in- : dicaded that he had the- Emperor’s authority to state that every Austrian Government would resist by all the means in their power any attempt to establish home rule for the Czechs. He said that the resolution aimed at de- ... stroying the foundations of the State.

REPORT OF REVOLUTION NOT CONFIRMED.

BELIEVED TO BE PROBABLE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24,

Thdre is no 'Confirmation of the Vienna revolution, but the news is Widely credited, as the State Department has been receiving daily reports that the Austrian situation is growing more critical. It is believed that Austria is becoming another Russia.

STRIKES STILL CONTINUE.

y, MANY STRIKERS OUT.

Received 11 a.m

AMSTERDAM, January 25,

Forty per cent, of the Austro-Hun-garian strikers have not yet resumed. Strikes continue in many industrial centres in Bohemia.