Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-31
HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN. SATURDAY, MARCH 81, 1917

fight, pFemature surreadering. TIE
2Stil regiment, composed Of Prague
boys, surrendered 70 a single battalion
Of Russians and the 18th regiment,
| from Pisek In Bohemia, went over 70
the Russians in body with the ex-
/ eeption Of two companies. A special
order OF the day was read to the Car
patbian army calling on the soldiers
/ 10 prove that there were still Bohemi-
ans left loyal to their emperor. But
Shy should Bohemians be loyal to the
man who calls himself a German
prince, who broke his solemn promise
TO be crowned king of Bohemia and
restore the liz critics Of the country
and whose Germanizing regime: was
, growing more oppressive as he was
growing older? Every Bohemian hon
ors the soldiers who would not fight
for the cause which meant the destruc-
Ion OF the Bohemian nation.
At home IN the meantime CZechs
We're made to feel that they were a
disloyal race. Their newspapers were
suppressed IL they dared to give the
slightest indication Of the real feelings
Of the people. The chief political. lead
ers were put in prison; great numbers
of men who reckIessly expressed their
hope that the Allies would win were
executed: even children we're sent to
jail for the crime Of talking as they
heard their parents talk at home. A
reign Of terror prevails in Bohemia
under the new governor, Count Cou.
denhoYe; spies are everywhere, and
military courts require little evidence
before they condemn to death or peni.
Tertiary. The whole population is al
fected BY the scarcity of food and
the Czechs eat now what was former
" fed only TO the pigs and cattle, and
they get no sympathy or assistance
from their rulers.
Bohemians living beyond the limits
or the German-Austrian territories are
of one mind in that they all feryently
pray for the triumph of the Allies. A
number of Bohemians, prominent in
the political life of their people, es,
capped to Switzerland and they en-.
deavor to inform the world OF the real
attitude of the Bohemians. A review
is published in Paris called La Nation
Tcheque," giving authentic and ex
elusive news of the international stu
alton in Austria. Hungary and present.
ing forcefully the claims Of Bohemia
to independence. Bohemians living in
France, England and Russia at the
outbreak of war clamored for admis-
sion as volunteers into the armies OF
the Allies; several hundred of them
have already lost their lives in the
fights north of Arras Bohemians re-
siding in the United States and num-
herring more than three-quarters Of a
million, have organized themselves
into the Bohemian National Alliance
in America" with the purpose Of sup
porting their countrymen in Europe In
their labor for Bohemian independence
and also with the purpose Of combat
ing German influences in the United
States That they are unanimously
against Austria may be seen from this
single fact: The Austrian government
has prohibited the admission into Aus
tria of SO. newspapers published in the
United States in the Bohemian Ian
guage. The list is practically q COM
plete census Of Bohemian publications
In America: II there Is one or two left
out, It is any oversight on the part of
the Austrian officials.
Tragic is the situation of the Bo
hemian race, compelled to fight for
their enemies against their brothers
And a tragieomedy 1t is, when Bo
hemian living abroad, in France, Eng.
land or Canada, is treated as an enemy
because he had the misfortune of be.
IN o. hos.,, q s,,hiocf nf fha Austrian
emperor. But this Misunderstanding
existed only at the beginning Of the
war;sat the present time all Allies an.
derstand the attitude and feelings Of |
Bohemians and regard them as their
friends.
Should the Germans win, which God
forbid, Great Britain, France and Rus
sia would suffer terrible humiliation. |
Immense losses of territory and wealth |
but these free nations are too strong |
to be suppressed and exterminated |
Whereas, to the unfortunate Bohemian /
race standing in the way of German |
expansion to the east would be APP
piled the German war methods and II /
would not be long before the Czechs I
would disappear from the face Of the |
earth and the Bohemian language /
would be counted as one Of the dead
languages. Bohemians have every.
thing to lose in the event Of German
victory; everything to gain In the /
event Of the triumph of the Allies.
Can there be any doubt as to where
the Bohemians stand in the present
WARP