El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-15

T ONDON England. Sect. Is.
Saxon Mills, writing in q London
- newspaper, interestingly mar
rates the plans OF premier Pasitch OF
Servia for creating a great new nation
Of Jueoslavs tSouthern Slavs) in
the Balkans and southeastern Aus
tria. He says
The Jugoslavs are that branch OF
the Slavonic family consisting OF
Serbs, Croats and SIovenes. who in
habit the southern provinces Of Aus
tria and Hungary as well as Servia
proper Bosnia herzegovina and
Montenegro Ike settlement OF 1915
drove the Austrian frontier right
through the middle Of these people.
who in tradition. blood and language
form truly one nation. For so years
Austria and Hungary have depressed
and oppressed these subject SlaVs. re-
garding them. especially in later
years, as the one great obstacle in the
way OF Germanic advance down the
valley Of the MOrava and the Nardar
TO Salonica-
The determination TO get rid Of
SerVia and remove the barrier once
for all was perhaps the main cause
Of the present war And let US not
forget that behind the dual monarchy
has been the German empire working
and pushing southwark and east
ward to the Aegean. COnstantinOple
and Asia Minor beyond.
IF we are TO resist this movemeu+
we must oppose to 10 somethf1f
stronger than the courageous little
kingdom Of Servic. And this is what
interests the allied powers in the
union Of the twelve millions Of Jugo-
slavs
England has an interesting guest at
present in the person Of NJ Pasitch,
the prime minister OF Servia. He is q
venerable figure and with a patiar-
chal white lard and an expression
which is at once stern and benevolent.
, His nation is now in exile. but he
VIII no doubt live to see il fully re-
stored and avenged
No Faith In Austria.
M. Pasitch has no faith in the olive
branches which Charles HapsburE (as
the Austrian emperor is sometimes
called has been offering to the ma
tionalties under his sway. He re-
CARDS them as the result of necessity
and embarrassment to be recalled as
soon as circumstances allow.
In any case. he said TO me. the
control of the army and Of foreign
politics would always be kept In the
hands Of the German and the Magyar.
the two dominating races The dual
monarchy. as AT present constituted,
will continue TO be the servant OF the
German empire. We have had too long
an experience TO trust Austro- Hun
garian promises. The whole game
viii begin again. Even If the con-
cessioHs are granted the government
viii do its utmost to cause disputes
and differences among its subject Deo-
pies on the good old principle Of d.
vide and cOnquer.'
But I asked, is there no chance
OF reconstitutinE the empire on a
freer basis and substituting "trialism'
FOR "dualism2"'
BI-a One Solution.
That is simply n device for saving
what is now quite past salvation
There is only one solution of this
problem which can be final and en-
during-that the AustrO- Hungarian
empire should go into liquidation
You must remember that the nom
German and non-MaEyar races. the
oppressed nationahties OF that aru-
fetal empire. constitute q large ma
jOrity Of the population If the empire
is liquidated Germany would gam
about eight million Germans now Nv
ing in Austria But she would lose
elsewhere. in SchieswiE. Poland. Al
SAGE and Lorraine, an equal mum Der