Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-09
AUsTR1A's OUTLOOK AS GERMAN vAssAL OR DEREL

grandisement Gernanys. With the entente allies Vctor,
Austria Hungary than any other nation Will
pay the bitter penalty of defeat Even though the aged
I'm fanes joseph may not ad th the rest Oh
Repeated renewal of the suggestion of separate peace
TOR Austria leads to well defined suspicion tat even ne Aus
sibility the dual empire reap reward commensurate
with the sacrifices eXacted from Austria Hun
Victorious '''''''
In the event of the triumph Teutonic the Ger
man Emperor becomes the dominant ruler IN Europe Aus
ra which applied the torch responsible for the present t
chain of States No military glory will to Aus;
tria. You cannot prominent Austrian general
Mackensen Hindenburg and other German generals
AS Austria declared war against little serbia ony Wnen
Kaiser r9' 'N''''~'
Austria in is paying terrible price for helping to
pull the chestnuts of the European conagraon for
Germany. Internal conditions in the dual empire
ected by the announcement that thrythree members OF
the Austrian Rechsrah have been imprisoned for
ing sympathy with the peace movement while newspapers
INDUCING in similar sentiments have been suppressed and
their editors thrown into prison.
It only by turning to- exterior conditions surround
means that country. With Russia pounding through
Gaca repeatedly and with Italy slowly but surely gaining
including Trieste and other Austrian possessions inhabited
largely by Italians have vivid prophetic picture of
ALL With Austria defeated Hungary is
make another determined effort to regain its separate exist
and the allies for prudential be inclined
to regard such outcome with favor
On the other hand Germany has every reason for bank
of weakness Germany strategicaly than Bull
gara and Turkey is to attack from many direc
tons Italy had grievance against Germany and has not
yet declared against the Kaiser The Italians
were named solely against the of the Italian
a Italy has kept busy along the frontier hundreds of thou
sands of Austrian soldiers who otherwise would have added
strength to the German forces along the different battle
When the Russians pressing through Gaicia and
raising the push to Vienna the Kaiser forced
to divert host the aid of the Austrians else Hun
gary drop out of the dual empire with all that would have
neutrality. The allies the western front then not
prepared and this extra German host. acting flying
wedge could have forced the western lines Just Grant
in Civil War often forced almost impossible positions
against the Confeeates through mere superiority Of mum
at the outset thus gradually became of weakness to
the Kaisers
to show for all she has lost and must continue to lose? She
has punished little Serbia for the assassination of her heir
the German Rehsag took the lions share of the credit to
Germany for avengng in the Serbian drive the assassina
In the uncertain event of Teutonic victory, Austria
would secure large portion of Serbia and she would also
gain undoubtedly additional territory the eastern shore
of the Aratc Austrian expansion in the event of de-
feat of the allies is rendered somewhat uncertain factor
however by the Kaisers declaration that Austrian German
and Russian Poland would be erected into great autono
Gus state under German protection.
No territory Austria is likely to gain will serve,
however, her for the loss OF hun
dreds of thousands of lives including much of her best
blood Austria is half ready for she
hope to the issue until England ready to the
enormous indemnity promised the central powers by
In all human probability, therefore, Austria figures up
the certainty of being obliged to bear large share of
her great debt herself The longer the struggle
tnues the greater must become this financial burden which
will constitute mortgage many succeeding generations
of Austrian and daughters.
Under all the circumstances it is hardly strange that
Austrians anxious for separate at this time
If the struggle continues the Italians will push the
still further into Austrian territory English determination
to the struggle to the bitter end eliminates any
hope aid from the outside for Austrian the Alpine
region Continuation of the struggle cannot add to the
fruits of victory for Austria in event. She has every
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Every of the entente allies the other hand has
abundant for desiring opportunity to take advantage
of beaed preparations and push back the Teutons from ter
tory and vantage points occupied by the Kaisers hosts
This determination of the allies tremendous addi
tional sacrifice for Austria.
This being the situation the Kaiser from this time
will be forced to dominate and the Austrian
He cannot afford to let Austria fall out by the
way To do would be to hoist the signal of distress In
the future the Kaiser must additional hosts to
meet the Russian drive against Gaca Austrian Po
land well the Russian invasion of Bulgaria, and also
be prepared to hold the Cars armies the Baltic region at
the north The Kaiser must also to it that Austria is
aided against the little Balkan powers still hanging her
anks he does not send renorceents to the Ital
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