Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-29
Pan : Germans Denounce
Austrian Premier For
Peace Views; Bread Riots
and Unrest Continue in
Dual Monarchy.
IN GERMANY
WIDELY SEPARATED


Zurich, Jan. 2s.-Three thousand
persons took part in a riot in suburb
of Prague on Friday against reduction
of the flour rations, Vienna dispatch
says. Shop windows we're smashed
and the mob had begun to plunder
the stocks when the police interfer:
ed. The rioters were dispersed with
difficulty.
/ Count Czernin's speech on Austrian
war aims and the statement that it
was sent in advance to President Will.
son has aroused the Pan-Germans and
their newspapers are bitter in their
foreign minister.
ALLIANCE SPLIT FORECAST.
1t is declared that the counts ac-
ton means a break in the Austro-Ger-
man alliance and one Pan-German
newspaper has been suppressed for
suggesting that Germany abandon her
foremost ally.
While the workmen in Austria ap-
parently have returned to work, re-
ports have been received in Holland
Of disturbances in the industrial dis
trict along the Rhine in Germany. Few
details have been obtained but it Is
Stated that troops with machine guns
have been sent to Mulheim, a manu-.
featuring town on the Rhine opposite
Cologne.
FACTIONS WIDELY SEPARATED.
Meanwhile pan-Germaa attacks or
the leading poNticians ccntinue IN.
Guiding even the emperor, and have
spread to criticism of Count Won Roe.
dern, the imperial treasurer, who Is
said to have told the emperor that
Germany is not in proper financial
condition for offensive operations. DR..
Won Kuehlmann. the foreign minister,
has defended his course in the Rus
sian parleys by assailing the bolshe.
vik government and its purposes. His
efforts have failed to check socialist
attacks on the governments peace al.
titude toward Russia.
U. S. MAY NOTICE SITUATION.
Washington. d. c., Jan. 2S.- AL
though there is no official announce
ment to bear it out, there is rumor
in Washington today that the visit
Colonel E. NJ. House is making with
President Wilson may have bearing
on the Austrian situation. There is
a report that the president may read
message to congress soon which
can be taken as an answer to Count
Czernin's peace speech.
Surprise was expressed at the state
department today. however. at news
dispatches saying that Count Ger.
min had forwarded President Wilson
a copy Of his speech before he deliv
cred it.
Secretary Lansing declared no copy
had been received in advance of pub
lication nor since.
HARDEN FLAWS MILITARIsTs.
London. Jan. 2S.-Maxmilan Harden
devotes thirteen closely printed pages
in the latest issue of Die Zukunft to
"the real texts" of the
recent speeches of President Wilson
and Premier Lloyd-George. He says
and conscientious mon
should read the speeches entirely and
without prejudice. and criticizes in
outspoken fashion Ger
attitude toward Austria on the
conduct of Russian negotiations.
Herr Harden virtually accuses Ger
many Of forcing Austria Hungary into
the war and says that peace might
have been obtained the first week at
Brest-Litovsk if the Germans had not
posed as conQuerors and had not de.
manded territory.
PLEADS FOR PEACE.
Referring to President Wilson's
speech Herr Harden says.
"Belief still is firm that peace is
possible and that the cleavage be-
tween the two fighting groups no long.
er is so wide that it can be filled only
by new heaps Of corpses. II will,
however. widen into an unbridgeable
gulf If the people again refuse to
acknowledge a changed world"
He pleads for sanity in treaties,
reduction of ornaments and the right
10 self determination of nations, and
favors a reconsideration of the ques.
ton OF Alsace-Lorraine.
czERNIN OFF FOR PARLEY.
Amsterdam. Jan. 2S.-Count Czernin.
the Austro Hungarian foreign min
ister, left Sunday for Brest-Litovsk
where the negotiations with the Rus
sions are taking place, according to