AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.
SERIOUSNESS OF SLAV MOVEMENT. A GREEN ARMY FORMED. SLAVS DESERTING TO ITALY. Received 9.55 a.m. LONDON, June 11. The Daily News' Geneva correspondent reports that a semi-official statement issued in Vienna warns people against agitation by leaders of the smaller nations. The iron censorship on news concerning the Czech Jugoslav movement . indicates official nervousness and the delicacy of the internal situation* Newspapers in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague have been forbidden to. publish Mr. Lansing's recent statement on the decision of the Versailles Council. Various newspapers violently accuse England of being behind the new menace. Mysterious allusions to a socalled Green Army crop up in speeches of Austrian pan-Germans, the Government to crush the movement mercilessly. It is understood the Green Army consists of 60,000 ly-equipped Slav soldiers filled witr» the spirit of revolt. Many. Slavs are deserting the Austrian Army on the Italian front and are joining the Green Army.
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Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 4
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152AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 4
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