The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918. REVOLUTION IN AUSTRIA

Taihape Daily Times, 26 January 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918. REVOLUTION IN AUSTRIA

(With which is incorporated The Tai hapo Post and Waimarino News).

The Kaiser is now looking with increasing terror upon his handiwork in Europe. He .sees, not only Russia, but also the empire of his bosom friend in infamy, Carl of Austria, in the throes of red revolution, and he is shu’dcring at the spectacle, for he realises to the full that his own head may yet have a price put upon it. He has demonstrated how small a thing his German cultur is; that the faith he put in it to secure for him a dictatorship of the world, has led him through the most infamous labyrinth of crimes ever known or conceived by mankind. The democratic spirit, he set out to crush with’German cultur, he, by arrant folly and insatiable .pride, has made his master. The anAT.chy he essayed to nail down with the sword of cultur he has reared into a mighty, uncontrollable power, and the rapier of the red revolutionist he would have shattered is now a verit-

able Sword of Damocles suspended over him, likely at any moment to do its bloody work in...bringing about a poetic justice which man never better merited. The supremacy of militarism he lusted for, democracy has condemned, and he and his cultur are sinking with it_ He sought to make himself a king of kings and .he has shaken the very foundations of kingship, and there are strong indications that its fall throughout the world Is imminent. This human abortion has appealed to the most detestable passions mankind is cursed with, and has spread mournings and lamentations throughout the world besides -having scotched progress in civilisation for a century He broadcasted the seeds of revolution to destroy Russia, and some fell upon fertile ground in Austria, and even amongst German eultur. The whole Austrian Empire is reverberating with the people’s shouts of “Down with Prussianism,” and he stands appalled. He sowed the wind and is being dragged into the vortex of a mighty whirlwind in which he secs millions of his dead victims, those he has starved and rendered homeless and friendless; the Lusitanias and the hospital ships; the German Empire and the other empires he forced into his mad, devilish schemes. The Duke of Alva will henceforth figure in history as humane and kind compared with this Hohenzollern, who beggars all efforts to describe the curse of his existence. The end of his power is near; the intrigue he used to destroy others has rebounded with no uncertain stroke in Central Europe > Foiled or beaten at every point, only the acts of a desperado are now left him to choose amongst, will his desperation find vent in the sacrifice of a few hundred thousand more lives on the West front and in risking the destruction of the great naval machine he so proudly built up? Whatever the German people may permit him to do in the death struggles of militarism his fate has been sealed and brought near by the outbreak of revolution in Austria. Millions are'shouting, or framing with their lips “Down with Prussianism,” and few prayers are likely to be more fully and quickly answered than it Is.