The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-01-24
TEUTON POWERS
FACING BREACH.
100000 Austrian Workers
Strike as Protest Against
Fighting for German
Annexationists.
WAR PARTY IN CONTROL
Press Admits Situation Is Get
ting Beyond Control and
Both Sides Display
Bitterness.

trian ministry has resigned, ac-
cording to a Vienna dispatch
printed in the Berliner Post today.
The minister of the interior is re-
ported to be attempting to reform
the cabinet.
BY United Press.
Rome, Jan. 22:-Greatly stirred by
President Wilson'S democratic outlin-
Ing Of war aims. Austro-Hungary is
snouldering In blaze of opposition
to the militaristic aims of Germany,
according to vatican report from
Vienna. 1t was understood the papal
nuncio described the situation In the
dual monarchy as most critical for
the Teuton military combine
President Wilson's speech, it was as
to democratic peace ideas in the whole
nation.
Industrial chaos of more than local
significance is reported. Serious diff
peror Karl and pan-German leaders. The
kaiser. it is declared. is trying to
smooth out this disarrangment by sup
porting Foreign Minister Won Kuehl.
mann against Won Buelow. who is
hated in Austria.
The Courier Italia, the vatican or
gan, declared:
We are facing a true Austrian pro-
nouncement against Ludendorff, Hin
denburg, Hoffman, and German i'm
perialism.' .
Evidence of bitter opposition to the
junker annexation plans is accumulat-
Ing IN scores of reports sweeping
across the Austrian-Swiss border and
being telegraphed here. The Austrian
newspapers do not hesitate to attack
violently Austrian officials or Buelow
himself or the schemes of the Ger
man junkers. Strikes are spreading
throughout Austria. due not only to
demands for peace, but TO the peoples
disapproVal of continuing the war to
satisfy militaristic aims
BY Associated Press.
With the Pan -GermanS in the politi-
cal ascendancy in Germany, there are
serious strikes in Austria More than
100000 Workmen have quit work in the
vicinity of Vienna as a protest against
Gern1anism and in favor of peace. The
Vienna correspondent of one German
newspaper says the Austrian strike
movement demands a speedy peace
with Russia and has grown too strong
TO be sten1med by force"
London, Jan. 22--3,he latest German
reports which have come through Am
sterdam. to which city they We're for
warded by the semi ofhcial Wolff bur-
eau. fatty assert that the military
party has gained the victory in the ter
what face that aountry proposes to
put on annexations in the east. The
suisc in Which, these are presented are
that the peoples of these countries al
ready have determined their future
status through existing representative
bodies and that this determination is
irrevocable.
Whether the German newspapers
from which these reports have been
taken represent the general feeling or
nv ext cf, if,jlJn I ],,- hi
for circulation abroad, remains to be
seen
The issue of tine govern: ment crisis
appears to be q, victory for the follow
ers Of Won Kuehlmann In form, but for
tho pan-Germans in fact" is the way
the Leipsic Yolks leitung views the
result.
Force Secretary Out.
The pam German newspapers of Ger
many are mailing the removal of the
eInperor's secretary, Rudolf Won Valen-
TIM, as a triumph fo, their case anC
the disappearance of the last remnant
Of the Bethmann- Holiwes system
Herr Won Salentini was one Of the bes
hated men in the eyes OF pan Germans
His successor, Herr Won Berg former
governor of East Prussia, enjoys tn,
complete confidence of the conserva
1ives.
The Taeglischn Rundschau recalls
remark of Won Valentino after the bat
tie of the Skagerri,k regretting tina
event because we had been just OF
the point of an understanding Will
Great Britain.
While it seems uldoubted that the
pan-fiernnans thus again, at least fo1
a time are firmly in the saddle tn,
Frankfurter Ieitlng sounds a note o
disquietude regarding events in Aus
tria and their effect ON the situation
The Frankfurter lettings Vienna cor
respondent interprets the serious stir
rings and outspoken press utterance:
as rejecting the strong movement
against delaying peace through pan
German and annexationst aspirations
He declares that it is becoming eve
clearer that. with the semi conniyanc
OF the government. the Austrian PEG
pies. including Germans. will only wag
war until the entente is ready for pea c.
by understanding.
Fear FOR Austria Hungary.
Nothing has such a bad effect upo
the relations between Austria -Hungar
as the acts of the fatherland party, ac
cording to this correspondent and h
adds:
lit is .rue that the strike movement
lat Vienna and other cities through
out Austria) arose through the reduc
tor of the flour ration, but now ha
assumed a political character. 1t de
mands speedy peace with Russia an
has grown too strong to be stemmed b
force
A The article published Friday in til
4 Vienna Fremdenoladt, organ of Coun
Caernin. the Austro- Hungarian foreig
minister. has given the greatest offens
to Il section of the German press, wiic
in acrid articles reveals it's pent u
animosity toward Austria. The F'reEl
denbladt denounced Prince Won Buelo,
as a traitor against Austria and ais
expressed the dissatisfaction of TIL
Austrian government with the agita