The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-02
AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT.


Beset by Enemies both within and
without, Austria's position is being
painted in colors far from roseate.
Cable dispatches, whose hostile
sources necessitate several grains of
salt, have it that Bohemia and Hun
gary are disaffected and contemplate
proclamations of independence, that
there is serious food shortage
throughout the Dual Monarchy. and
that the army has entirely failed in
the face Of the enemy both Seryian
and Russian. These reports may be
exaggerated, but an intimation that all
is not running as smoothly as might
be is seen by some in the fact that the
Emperor Francis Joseph has chosen
this apparently inauspicious moment
to replace Count Won Berchtold. in the
Austrian Premiership, by Baron Ste
phan Burian, a Hungarian, who is
bound by the closest ties to Count
Tisza, the Hungarian Premier. This
act of swapping horses while cross
ing the stream" is regarded by the
London Times as highly significant,
as it thinks that something has snap
ped in the fabric of the Dual Mon
archy,' and regards this appointment
as a measure to placate Hungarian
opinion:
Since the Magyars have evidently
grown FESTIVE under the prospects of
invasion by Russian armies. the au-
thorities in Berlin doubtless feel it
necessary that Hungary should be
more adequately represented in the
councils of the Monarchy than was
| POSSIBLE so long as Count Berchtold
remained at the Ballplatz"
1t is impossible to learn anything
from the Austro-Hungarian press,
which is admittedly muzzled by an
iron censorship. The most influential
paper in Vienna, the Neue Freie
Presse, complains bitterly about this
condition, and, in apologiZing to it's
readers for appearing with SO many
blank columns in certain issue, says .
"In more important cases We have
repeatedly closed up white blanks in
our paper in order not to disturb our
readers by such intrusions on the part
of the censor. Nevertheless we must
acquaint our readers with the sup
preston of our articles on the events
in the southern theater of war to
avoid being reproached by them with
neglect of duty"
In the freer atmosphere of the for
eign press, many distinguished citi-
zens of the empire are urging freedom
from the German alliance and the ne
COLLATION. of separate peace. Thus
an Austrian diplomat, writing in the
Gazette de Lausanne, says
'In spite of the state of siege and
the silence imposed upon the press
public opinion, owing to the news
which has filtered through from
abroad, is beginning to be agitated
For me the situation is clear; we
must make peace. If we were victori-
Gus in this war, Germany would ex-
tract from victory all the benefits
would probably try to subjugate us
or, in the best hypothesis, might let us
be lost in the inextricable difficulties
trary, as seems unhappily possible
the Dual Alliance collapses under the
weight of European coalitions, we will
pay the largest part of the costs of the
adventurous policy of the German en-
pire.
The leading organ of German opin-
ion in Budapest, the Poster Lloyd, re-
plies by refusing to believe in the ex-
istence of this Austrian diplomat, and
goes on to say:
Let our opponents understand once
and for all: We are going to hold Gu;
to the end, and we have not for sin.
gle moment meditated separate
peace with any one 1t might be men
toned on this occasion that there Is
not a word of truth in the reports o.
sectionary tendencies on the part o.
all Hungary or single Hungarian par
ties, to whom desires for separate
peace may be ascribed. Literary
Digest.
Private money to loan on city pro.
perty. F. S. Bell Jan. 90 Feb 3;
/ Green ground bone for poultry, al
Modern Packing company. Dec. 8 If
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