Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-08-18
FIRING THE At -TkiAN
BALLOON.

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'early month ago fhe Italians
and French 10 Albania began a cam
pa rn which mliiau critics assured
us - once could have no objective
J They proved 90 from me map which.
north 0f Dufaglo. showed 200 miles
/ so mountains with The worst Of roads
and almost no railway whatever
| What objective could there be
None. n You lefi out certain millions
81 Ausinaa subject peoples.
And in the iight ~ events nov oc-
curing. We are beginning 20 learn
what that obleciiye S. For AZ least
Two years the Dual Empire has been
like great balloon filled with BOO
fammables. which could Boz reached
neither from above nor from me
sides ln their campaign in Albania
the allies are now seeing ~ thej
| cannot put q match o. IiF feed pipe
Superhcatrd Pipe.
The feed pipe has always been
there. q mperheated. iapor.ng funnel.
OF Cafnlolans and rroatiau- fosn'.
ans. serbians and AlhanIaus. alI iu-
veterale enemies ~ the empire They
lacked arms aud ihoy lacked military
leaders These could ho got 40 them
only by an eSpeditiounu force from
outside
u has always been known that AZ
bania was the opening 10 th" pipe
But. tiil recently. b. vas closed boy ali
ferences between two OF the allies
thems. lveF Serbia and Italy Both
made claims 10 the ssne stretch OF
Adriatic coast Inc. claims apparently
irrecOncilablr until the word went
ont that they must bc recouclied
And the compromise was made ~
April ~ Rome. iu what was called
the con gress OF oppressed nations
we are Informed says the scmi-
of1cial Fromdouhllu of Vienna.
"thot n tthe congrossI Uill in an
probability have serious Cunso.
lguouces. u would appear sn. And
Ne are now beginning to Do able 20
gec rather clearly what They are 20
De- Military campaigns are not pre-
pared over night lut ON July . the
Italians and French struck success
fully above Avloua and they are now
nearly fifty miles to the north uf g.
Toe country so iackiuf in natural
detectives. and so far away from
Trieste and Vienna and budupesth.
what can they actually hope for
First Answers.
We had our first answers within
"a week Albanian troops are In re-
lvolt" said one dispatch They are
massaereing Apstru-llungariau troops
who are retgN-snE toEards Duraz-
20 IN krkbnyevatz, The former
Serbian arsenal the Austria garrison
troops themselves mutin.ed 'Siml-
liar reyolts"--of Czech troops other
dispatches now tell as. ARE taking
place IN Dnlmaila" the upper and
Adriaiic side Of the feed pipe
where the military authorities have
been unable to suppress revolt ot
armed dcserters and escaped Russian
prisoners The official organ the
Hoskische Post makes illusions sur
costing that similar bands are sprin g
Ing mp In Bosnia
BOSNIA is that part ~ the pipe
which. with Montenegro Serbia =
ally. lies Immediately 10 the north Of
Albania When country is ben rD
volt and waiting only for iis De.
liyerers the absence Of roads and
railways Is of concern chiefly 20 o.
! half-belcaguerol garrisons but what
OF that pari OFF our pipe which, as %
widons. opens into Austria its"lf'
! Ne come now f0 Croatia and the hin
scrland OF Fiume and Trieste and
J G0ritlia
Here certain confidential reports
+ issued b, JuE0 slavic printing presses
. w Geneva and Corfu tell the story
b y IS cirDwmst1ntial, with abundant
detail. and 10 DO means anythiuF d
. means that the plrit of pure reyolu
p ton has here gone even further thar
it has to tho south Tho people
l. might have no arms as yet. but the'
2 could speak through great popula
demonstration And. with Austrian
b soldiers ou all .Iles ~ them. evident
% ~ they have been holding thoe
3 demonstration and issued defiance
b with What seems 10 be- almost M
r absolute hC. of fear
n Meet in Styria.
% Ten thousand met az Trbovlle n
h Syria. 1000 ar Rakovnik in lowe
, Caruioa Other meetings. e1uall
r large. took place at St Rupert and
q Lagreb tArnm Seven thousani
D were called out bv the Juroslar clul
2 of Iaihach which Napoleon callet
.he gateway oi Austria We leari
I that everywhere peasants and socia
p democrats fra'ernifed They werl
p oddressel by their labor and socinlis
b leaders. hy their uarish priests an,
j. hy their reichsrat deputies They re
n reiyed reports from delegates sent q,
5 ftend similar r0volutiouarv meet
= ings IN bohemia where Jugoslav bat
talions are In military revolt
Tho tone of these gatherings o
Indicated sufficiently well by theh
watchW0rd "1uElsiavia or death
Throw or The foreign yoke"
D Some idea of 'he weakness n M
rentral government NAV be- formed
. from this Hagin first prohibited
. an such gaiherinrs under the direct
penalties. we soon lind u prohibiiinI
p ONLY The attendance 81 Russian
? Serbian and Italian prisoners OF var
= a. also soldiers in Uniform There
: ARE few balloons even. but have :
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