Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
|USTRIAN TROOP
I'm OPEN REVOLT
Fol 8 h e TX Propaganda
Among Returned Prison.
ers Blamed for Mutinies
POLITICAL CRISIS NEAR
Covernment Under Seydler
Planning Policy of Repres.
sion to Crush Rebellion
Special Cable to Erening Public Ledger


B Copsrioh,. 1918. by Nctc York Times Go.
Zurich. June II.
Once again the Austrian frontier has
< tten closed and news Of the internal
4 state of affairs in that empire arrives
only by roundabout ways.
Two Munich papers simultaneously
print kilograms from their Vienna cor
fespondents which suggest one highly
probable reason for the Austrian Gov
ornment's disinclination to let the whole
ruth appear According to the Munch-
ner Neueste Nachrichten, BolsheviK
prcpaganda among the Austrian prison.
s ers now returned to their own country
has been successful to the extent of
producing a highly mutinous feeling
which Is not confined to any portion of
the dual monarchy. The Munchncr
sAugsberger Abend Zeitung says that
mutinies are actually occurring. especi-
ally among Slav units commanded by
German officers.
battalion of the Seventh Infantry
Regiment, consisting of Slovcnes. went
on a strike at Oudenburg, shot their
officers and committed excesses in the
town. The mutiny was only suppressed
after several days of systematic trench
warfare.
Boieheviki Propaganda Blamed
This was followed by a muuity at
8umburg. where Czech soldiers revolted
and fought a pitched battle before being
crushed. Some escaped into SaXony and
there surrendered.
Lastly a regiment of Hungarian Serbs
munitied at Funfkirchen, but details are
not known, All these cases are ascribed
- Bolshevik propaganda. and the ques-
ton of refusing to continue the ex-
change of prisoners is being considered
In all three cases German officers We're
the first and principal victims.
The political crisis in Austria is rap
idly developing. on June . and 10, the
Polish representatives in the Rechstrath
held a conference at Cracow and decided
70 ask the Government for certain guar
antees. Galicia must not be partitioned,
and the Polish districts annexed from
Russia must be placed under Polish pro-
tection and not German. Further. as
Van Seydler. the Premier, is unfavorable
to such measures. his resignation was
demRnde1 and the Reichsrath must be
gummoned forthwith.
i The last two points contain the sum
0f the situation. They mean that the
Polish deputies now definitely pass into
the opposition. together with the other
Diav parties already aligning with the
8pcialist opposition in the Vienna parla-
ment
S A majority of the deputies are now
.4efinitely against the Government, but
the Government can hardly call a gen.
>9eei election Just now, as it would be
spo&tting disaster, nor can the Govern
'@Bent accede to the Polish demands. as
{ apparently a secret clause in the treaty
u Austria Hungary with the Ukraine
makes the latter subsequently the master
~ eastern Galicia
Mailed Fist Government
Although yet unratified. the treaty has
olfeady been signed. Austria cannot
Urotect Poland against Germany The
94ly solution of the difficulty. in Seyd-
ler's opinion is government without
Dafltament and with the mailed fist.
II we bear in mind the fact that Aus
Qta and Hungary are having little
Quarrel apart on the question where
0oes Hungary come in on the Austro-
kolfph arrangement. IT will be realized
'that the position of the Austrian Gov
1tqment is very uncertain. Everything
lofnts to the beginning of a new period
~ repression and repression has a habit
~ urging the government which prac-
uees 1t down steep place to a sudden
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