The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-17
Success of Russian Revolution
ArOuses German People.
Chancellor and Emperor Carl
Ealk 1t Over at Vienna.
SEE KAISER'S PLAN DEFEATED
Russia Stronger Instead OF
Weaker Thru Revolt.
Socialist Deputy Throws Prus-
sian Diet Into Tumult.

Berlin. March lf.-GerlilahS 10
profoundly impressed by the Russian
revolution.
Newspapers today pointed to the
conference of officials in Vienna as of
extreme Importance in view of the
Developments at Petersburg (Petro-
EradD.
In this conference will be the EN-
peror Carl of Austria the Imperial
German Chancellor Won Bethmann-
lIollweg. Prince Conrad Won Hohen-
lobe. formerly minister of finance,
Count Czernin. Premier Clam Martini
itz and Count Tisza.
Fear Anti-Gcrman Move.
Amsterdam. March 17.-Unrest in
'0ermany against military repression
of the people has been violently ac-
celebrated by the success of the Rus
sion people in casting off the yoke OF
centuries.
Even these elements of the Ger
man people who favor autocratlc con
troll of the fatherland have been al
fectcd by the news from PetroSrad,
seeing therein the failure of German
plans and the certainty that instead
of Russia growing weaker as the war
progresses, she is likely TO grow
stronger with a new government ami
mated by united determination to do
its best against Germany.
German neNSpape COHtdlllLh6 hllC
.chancellor's speech of Wednesday aft
ernoon carry the impression among
observers OF German affairs here that
the German government itself is APP
prehensiVe of this unrest among the
Teutonic people.
= Dispatches from Vienna today de-
clared the Russian revolution had
created "a profound impression there
That the government did not regard
this impression as one favorable to
fit.t1 Of hD mill a ~
was indicated in the return to the Aus
trian capital of the emperor and the
departure from Berlin for Vienna OF
imperial German Chancellor Won
Bethmann- Hollweg.
Socialist DenounccS Royalty.
Meanwhile German newspapers hail
the chancellor's speech as one of the
most momentouS in German history.
Additional details printed in these ar
ticles indicated a dramatic scene in
the Prussian diet on this occasion.
Socialist speakers bitterly denounced
the government and the sins of those
in power" "Absolutism," was one of
the targets of their attack. Several
speakers declared the time was COM
ing when the nation would arise and
sweep 'junkerism" away.
we are no longer serfs whom the
king can buy or sell" declared the
Socialist Deputy Leinert or order
us to bleed to death at his command"
Rich Corner Food.
The Hague, March Tine keel
nische Zeitung's account OF the sen
sational debate in the Prussian dlet
Thursday adds details to the speech
of the Socialist leader, Adolph Hoff-
mann, for which he was voted into 81
Ience. The paper says that Hoffman,,
amid noisy interruptions accused nigh
~ placed functionarles or cornerinS
food while the poorer classes of North
Germany were falling ready victims to
small police on account of enteebled
vitality.
The Socialist deputy went on to de-
clare that Germany was mourning the
execration of the world thru policy
of senseless proVocation. The tumuIt
Increased when he denounced any
idea of annexation as senseless and
criminal and the climax was reached
when he stigmatized submarine war
fare as a crime against international
law. At this point he was shouted
down and the house voted he be no
longer heard.
Fails To Weaken Russia.
4 Copenhagen, March 1.-THE Ger
man view of the Russian revolution so
far as it can be made out from the
press comments telegraphed here and
from utterances in informed German
1circles, is that the revolution by no
means presages weakening of the
Russian conduct of the war for the
time being. No hopes of a change in
.Russia's determination to continue the
struggle or of overtures for a separate
.pcace are expressed. On the contrary,
it seems to be believed that the new
regime will prove even more of a gov
.ernment than it's predecessor. There
seems to be a disposition in certain
quarters under whose inspiration Ger
many has maintained a quarters at
Stockholm under the guidance of a
Hamburg banker as a hot bed for Gull
.ffyating sentiment for separate
tDeace, that the day of Emperor Mich
.oias' abdicatiOn may be celebrated as
the birthday of peace. This idea
however, finds little favor in what are
Believed to be the best informed Ger
1afian circles
These circles seemingly anticipate
Sthat the new Russian ministry al
tho il probs bly, is united in determin-
fation to prosecute the war with vigor,
may later find itself in difficulties
which ultimately will help the cause
of the central empire.
s. Revolution Spirit Will Grow.
~ The government, they predict, will
mot only be faced by the open opposi-
ton of the ousted faction, but will be
seNposed to attacks of thousands of
.revolutionists released from prison and
Returned from exile who have been
+br I'd upon the spirit of revolt against
all government and disposed to fight
-the bourgeois class no less than the
-Sutocracy.
Little direct news from Petrograd is
available here and the columns of the
newspapers are filled mainly with de-
tails received by way of London, which
seems for the moment to have a mo-
nopoIy on the cables from Petrograd,
md with tales of travellers arriving in
Sweden. A dispatch from Vienna re-
lports that the news of the revolution
was greeted by the Russian soldiers in
the trenches with an outburst of cheer
ing.