Evening journal., 1918-11-08
TERROR LOOSED BY
KAISER SPREADING
Fire OF Revolution Engulfs
Central Powers,
Refugees Say
HUN FINANCES
ARE WRECKED
BY FREDERICK NJ KERRY.

!
financed the Russian revolution, then
the Bolshevlk are now repaying the
debt with compound interest.
This is what the political refugees
from Russia and the central empires
temporarily cOlonized on The lower
east side Of New York are saying today.
Having silently, though confidently,
waited for months for the rising Of the
people OF the Teutonic powers against
their military oppressors, all the pent
up feelings now have been loosed and
they are celebrating the downfall OF
the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns.
] have spent the day talking with
men who have kept in touch with the
underground revolutionary govern
ments that have been developing in
Vienna and Budapest. found them
in the offices OF 'Novy Mir" "Elora"
and the dlngy back rooms where other
revolutionary socialist weekly and
monthly foreign language papers are
produced. / have been in the Hun
Second avenue, where the latest reyO-
luton is being openly discussed.
Last spring when reports of the
Vienna strikes came over the cables
Zader Szabades, editor of "Elora," the
Hungarian socialist daily newspaper,
told me that the revolution was a mat
ter OF few months at the most; that
II would probably start in Budapest,
and that the propaganda sent into Aus
tria-Hungary underground by the Boil
sheviki would touch the match TO the
powder What he said then has come
true Now through the east side. /
find the feeling Is overwhelming that
the revolutionary government in the
central empires will eliminate in Boil
shevism.
A steady stream of propaganda has
been poured into Germany and Austria
from the Bolsheviki in Russia. The
German troops facing the Russians
were so infected with Bolsheviki propa-
ganda that they had to be Withdrawn,
sent to the western front and replaced
by new divisions before the treacher-
Gus invasion OF the Baltic states and
the capture OF Riga could be attempted
by Germany.
Since Brest-Litovsk and the rape Of
the border Russian states, the Russian
Bolsheviki have carried on an unceas-
ing campaign Of propaganda, both in
these occupied territories and with Aus
tria-Hungary, Germany and the sub
iect Czech and Slav and the great states
Of Austria. The Lenine-Trotzky regime
has always prOfessed 10 believe that
4, - oufa
revolution within the central empires
This propaganda--if reports that
have reached this side can be believed
,-has infected tremendous portion OF
the German and Austrian soldiers and
wOrkingmen.
With the release OF Liebknecht, the
Independent socialists have gathered
strength and the Underground swell Of
Bolshevism has been growing more
menacing RevolutiOnists here point |
out that the conditions are ripe. Ger
many and Austria together have lost |
100000 men killed and millions more |
wounded and prisopers. The people |
are near starvation. Vienna is without |
food TO the east Russia is In worse
condition. The German and Austrian
soldiers will scome home beaten and
destitute.s
Germany's financial system has been
wrecked by the Junkers--it is on
paper basis-and Austria is worse off.
German paper currency is as valuable
as Russian paper roubles. The fOrma-
ton OF workmen's and soldiers cOun-
ellis is almost a certainty. Conditions
are ripe for revolution Of the most ex-
treme type.
My informants say that the abdlca-
tion OF the two kaisers viii be followed
by the setting up Of republics cores
ponding to the Miloukoff regime in Rus
sia. The formation Of all-soclalist gov
ernments may be expected to follow
demands by the workers and returned
soldiers which cannot be met. Wheth-