The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-30
Conditions in Austria Are Explained
Dual Monarchy Is Subject Of Comment

in the field. Hungary lacks trained
troops. Within ten days. say the
military observers, the Cossacks and
Servian cavalry will meet on the
plains of Hungary to march upon
Budapest. Austria has been Of no
help to Germany in the war she
wished on Germany"
The Syracuse Herald finds it
easy to believe the rumor that Aus
tra- Hungary Is lin the throes Of
financial panic" since "her finan-
cial affairs were In a deplorable
condition when the war broke out"
Austria Is 1.-The forlornest Of all
nations in the war" remarks the
Atlanta Journal. which goes on to
say:
Her armies are staggered, her
navy. never Of formidable strength,
Is hopelessly locked in, her ports
are blockaded. her harvests ungath-
cred. her food-supply desperately
short, her industry and business
paralyzed, her financial resources
at an end every sinew Of the great
numbering Empire Is strained to
the snapping-point and every nerve
tingling with alarm.
THE expedition that was to be
hurled against Servia and crush the
little Kingdom forthwith is appar
emily abandoned. Instead, the Serbs
and Montenegrins are overrunning
Austrian provinces. The armies
that were to deal death-blows to
the Muscovites in a brief campaign.
and then sweep westward to aid the
~
Lemberg has fallen. Galicia is In
Russia's grasp. Vienna itself is
looking anxiously to It's defense"
Both Vienna and Budapest, &C
cording to the Providence Journal,
were without Notifications when the
war began. Another handicap. the
same paper points out, is the fact
that "Austria-Hungary entered the
war with third OF its population
Slavs of doubtful loyalty" And in
the Detroit News we read:
The principal weakness OF this
polyglot Empire is that her people
are not, like the Germans, Of one
mind as to the war and eager to
make any sacrifice for the father
land. The elements Of Austria are
naturally discordant, and only the
most expert management has serv-
ed to keep them a united people in
times of peace. The cement Of the
political bond is chiefly commercial
advantage and opportunity. War,
and especially war that shows
disastrous beginning and threatens
more disastrous finish, must create
deep discomfort bordering upon mu
tiny among people who at best had
but half-hearted interest in the
conflict and who looked with strong
disfavor upon the provocation."
The idea, however, that the in
ternal unrest in Austria-Hungary
borders on rebellion is - declared
false by a writer in Fair Play, who
says:
"Whatever of it may exist is due
to the economic conditions. While
the Slavs of Austria and of Hun
gary are constantly fighting for the
purpose of gaining advantages for
their race, they fight in the same
manner as the different political
parties of this country fight each
other, not for THE purpose of dis
for political advantages, pure and
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for instance the case Of the Croa-
tians and Slavonians: they are the
same race as the Servians, but if
the Croat hates anybody in the
world it is the Servian. and he would
rather see his county swept from
the face Of the globe than to be in
corporated in a greater Servian en-
pire or in the holy Russian autocracy,
at the head Of which is the semi
idiotic Nicholas. The same can be
said Of the Czechs, Of the Poles,
OF the Slovaks, and of all other
Slavic nationalities OF Austria and
Hungary. =.
1.-THE Austro- Hungarian monarchy
has Is million Germans, 10 million
Magyars, and 3h millions of Rou
manians and about 20 millions of
Slavs, the large majority of whom
are either loyal to the Austrian or
loyal to the Hungarian crown"
An Austrian collapse might easily