Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-25
WORM TURNS
. IN AUSTRIA
(By w. Arid Macdona.d.)

San Francisco Cal; Feb 25.-The
same Hun ~frightfulness visited upon
Belgium and Serbia has been prac-
ticed within h iron ring that sur
rounds the central powers.
AUSTRIA must make peace, or she. is
lost. because three-fourths. of he.
people are now arrayed against the
Vienna government. 49,
The Monster of Brutality is &C.
vouring. itself. ri
i. This is the word brought for the
first time to America by loser h Mar
tineck, editor and Socialist; returned
member Of the American delegation
sent to Russia to work for the hides
pendence of Bohemia
Austria" he says, lis today a
seething mass of revolt as a result or
German frightfulness. practiced upon
the peoples OF 'the small nations
! within her borders. So open have be-
come the mutterines in tn .'c -
Bohemia that a garrison of German
soldiers Is quartereu III ever. 90 !.
The workers and the helpless
have grown tired and are rising
against he awful. conditions added
by the war.
STRIKES are everywhere, tenn
porarily crushed by the iron hand Of
German brutality.
only last summer during the great
strike of the munition workers. in
in cold blood by German soldiers.
Then four soldiers were placed on
guard over every striker left and he
was ordered back to work.
"Daszynski, Polish deputy in the
Vienna parliament charged that from
thirty to sixty thousand Czechs have
been made victims of this German
frightfulness.
And it vas admitted by the Wen
ma press, official organ Of the govern
ment, that two thousand men of Bo-
hemia have died on the gallows.
S open has become III opposi-
ton to the government in Bohemia
that an inner blockade is now being
carried on by the Czechs or, Be-
hemians. in refusing to send their
grain into Germany. The kaiser has
warned Emperor Charles that the
Czechs are the most danger u enc
mics of the central powers
when the Vienna parliament was
assembled last July for the first time
since the war, Austria made all dep
uties of h various states swear 10y
atty to the government. The b.
hemian deputies refused. and when
forced, they declared against the gov
eminent.
"In open parliament, last October.
Deputy Udrzal, leader Of the united
Bohemian parties, sensationally chal-
lenged::
1.-The struggle of Czecns is against
Pan-Germanism and in this struggle
we are one with all those OF = this
side and beyond the ocean who do
not want to hear a word about Ger
man world dominion"
The recent utterances Of President
Wilson and Lloyd George have nae
/ n cro~1k 4Ee>~k ,r,&~~ 49, -~S~II
of the Austrian empire, asserted Mar
itineck. go .
"When America declared war
against Germany he resumed great
demonstrations in favor of America
were held in Prague, the capital of
Bohemia. The German papers were
censored, for not a line Of what was
going on in Bohemia appeared in n
of them.
when America also recognized
Austria as an enemy, even greater
demonstrations favoring the cause, of
democracy were held.
1.-The war credits Of Austria at the
last session of the Vienna reichstag
were passed with orr a majority Of
plished by a political. move which
drew h Polish. votes. All Bohemia,
South Slovak and all EermanSspeak-
ing Socialists voted against the war
credits. :. e'ta ~ ~
I'm Russia today over . 10000
Czech prisoners, former soldiers in
the Austrian army, are modified.
drilled and armed to fight against
Austria, with 10000 more in reserve.
Ten thousand also are in France on
the western 'front.'. So "'
by Austria they are regarded Is
traitors and if eve taken prisoners
would be executed. Consequently 1t
is a veritable battle to death with
than, - Hl. ~. o. t.N