New Britain herald., 1916-07-15
ELIMINATION 0F
 AUSTRIA FROM WAR
Deep-Seated Feeling Germany Is
 Using Monarchy As Tool

London, July 15.-The early elini- 1 regarded as so certain that the chief
 subject of debate in the newspapers
 of the allied countries is the policy of Germany in relation to it. That Ger
 many has discounted the surrender Of Austria is regarded as evident.
 The recriminations in the German press against the allied empire have become so open and pointed that the
 motive for their tolerance by the
 German censorship is freely discussed.
 The fact that newspapers which, like sidered as semi-of1cial organs of the German foreign office should indulge in continuous criticisms of Austria, and even in cynical gibes at her, hardly can be without a political motive
 The most interesting feature of the situation is that there is not merely an cutburst of sharp comment against Austria in the German press but that in the Austro-Hungarian empire there are open and acrimonious disputes be- tween the Austrian and the Hungarian sections. These disputes are seeming iy being fostered by the same semi official organs in Germany, and this circumstance is considered as ex tremely significant
 The conclusion drawn among the Allies is that, with the Austrian "debacle" admitted as imminent, ar rangem ents already are being made in Germany to draw the greatest profit il om it. With the collapse of the Austro- German empire Germany all most inevitably would make gains which would largely compensate her even for the loss of the war.
 With Austrian and Magyar pitted against each other and, reconciliation exceedingly difficult, return to the status quo ante bellum in the Dual Kingdom is believed impossible. The more Warlike Magyar would dominate such a situation
 It is believed that Austria, or at least the German part of it, may be drawn into the German Empire if conditions arise which will make the llVlng of Austrian and Hungarian in political union impossible
 Eliminates Turks and BuIgars.
 General Verraux, the noted French military author, says in the Oeuvre that 1t is inevitable that Austria will be put out of the war, and that the one condition for this, besides the direct pressure on Austria. will be the holding by the Russians of the front from Riga to the Pripet Marshes against the Germans and the holding by the Franco British Belgian forces on the western front, so as to prevent the Germans from bringing help to their allies. With Austria beaten. he suggests that the value of Bulgaria, and Turkey as allies for Germany would be gone.
 The Swiss military expert, Colonel Feyler, says that the disaster which is befalling the Austrians is not with out certain consolation for the Ger mans.
 ''The German General Staff,' he says in a dispatch from Lasanne to the Paris Journal, Twill explain to the German public, which will not ask anything better than to believe it, that once more the cause of the ill., success of the war falls on the Aus trians. Theirs already was the fault if, in the autumn of 1914, the Rus sians were not contained and if, be- fore the Germans had time to finish with the Allies in the west, the Ger man General Staff was obliged to at tend to making good the insufficiency of the Austro- ro-Hungarian army
 "Now while the German troons have held firm at Dvinsk before the Russian offensive, the Austrian troons show themselves power]ess in Galicia. Everywhere, even on the sea, the Ger mans declare that they win victories which are without precedent in his tory, but everywhere the Austrians make them lose the profit from them. One will have reason to be surprised If this argument is not soon adopted as that of the German military au- thorities."
 With regard to the newspaper dis cusslons apologies and excuses from vienna are responded to from Ger many with sharp reprimands. Thus l the Tag of Vienna said:
 In BukoWina our troops have been forced back on both wings, to the south after fights, to the north with out battle. In order to explain the slow development of these gigantic fights, and to reply to the stupid state- ments of outside newspapers. we would remark that our soldiers and the German troops struggling by their side know, as we'll as do the soldiers of the Czar, that never hitherto has any one been able to resist attacks delivered with such power as these The Russians have thrown into the fields of battle colossal masses"
 Zeitung's Sharp Reply.
 The Frankfurter Zeitung sharply replies:
 ''The Austrian General Staff is right in abandoning unfavorable po- sitions, but, then, why did it announce continuous victories and why did it give to the public illusions which it is now obliged to take away? In the pawSpoperc of pa1tro1 couptr;oc tboro