The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22
ALARMED AT SPREADING
TROUBLE THROUGHOUT
HIS EMPIRE
Famine Conditions Now
Causes Discomfort
Questioned Whether Trouble Will
Disrupt Nation bat Demand for
Peace is Growing-Papers Defy
the Censorship.

BERNE, Jan. 22.--With strikes
spreading throughout Austria-Hun-
gary and the people wildly demand
ing peace, Emperor Charles has taken
alarm and is reported to have sum
moned a crown council at the Schoen-
brunn castle.
| Information reaching here today
from Vienna and Budapest stated that
the situation has been complicated
still further by the resignation of the
cabinet.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The situa-
tion in Austria-Hungary today was
watched with deepest interest by the
administration. That 1t Is very sert-
GUS, officials admitted. But whether
1t will have the effect of disrupting
the solidarity of the central empires
was questionable.
In fact, the great majority of offic-
ials were OF the opinion that it will
not They say that Emperor Charles
Istill is too much under the domina-
ton of the German emperor to make
any concessions to the opposition.
} And the opposition so far Is too weak
to enforce its will.
The general strikes-political as
J they are and not economic which
now are in progress throughout the
dual empires, again have sharply en-
phasized the war weariness of the
Austro-Hungarian people. All OF the
reports received here from secret
American and neutral sources agree
that the Hungarians and many of the
= Austrians are almost unit in oppos-
} ing further continuation of the war.
r They are honestly for peace without
c lannexatiOns or indemnities. But the
r men close to the emperor hold to the
views of the German military caste
that the central empires should reap
the benefit of their conquests. And
they can be expected to retain their
control of the situation as long as the
army is actively engaged on the Ital-
ian and Russian fronts.
AS very high official of the United
States government today pointed out
/ you cannot start or gain success
u full revolution with women and with
y out arms"
But the discomfort eventually mus
have its effect in view of the fac
that the Austro-German drive in ltal,
L has been checked for the winter a
least The downfall of the Austrian
ministry-undoubted the minor bod,
OF which DR.. Won Zydler is president
although the dispatches on the sub
ject are onflicting-indicates hoy
n quarters.
According to the best information
reaching Washington tie labor lead
ers of Austria have endorsed the n
annexation program originally enun
r ciated by Count Czernin and if thes
now are set aside by the high Austrc
D. German cabal. the beginning of
movement that must inevitably resul
10 in complete revolution in the centrs
empire can be seen.
The resignation of Count Czernir
because of the domination of Par
Germanists in Russian negotiation
he itself indicates a deep seated feelin
s. among many Austrians of the middl
or class.
to Representatives of the Pan German
ee and the militarists are demanding tn;
" Count Czernin be succeeded as foreig
IN minister by man of sterner stuff
i'll But while this demand comes from tt
ne annexationists, the press and publ
he are becoming bolder in their demand
he for immediate peace-"peace at al
'r price'-and relief from the intoler'
IL BILE food situation.
Practically all of the newspapers
is Vienna fell under the ban of the Gel
n sorship because of their outspoken d
he mands, but some of them issue
eW broadsides addressing appeals to Il
lg- working people-men and womt
or alike-to arise and put an end to Il
re- war.
'cs "This struggle said the Arbit
or Zeitung, SIS being waged in the inte
om ests of imperialism entirely. Aris
aid Won workers. and socialists of Ge
20 ynanv and Austria and nut an end
a the ruthless conquest"
al Serious disorders have taken pla
at various points, chiefly in the indu
trial centers of southern Austria.
At Gratz a mass meeting of strike
l. was broken up by the police whi
,ry --
(Cauffnued on r,age n