The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-25
FIRE OF Discomfort
SNOLDER|kG. NOW
over AUSTRIA
%, rTc,ANs APPARENTLY HAVE
o,,,ETEp SITUATION FIFTH oP-
7,M,sT,c uTTERANcEs.
GENERAL STRIKE POSTPONED

Rue.,aas and Germans Remains on
shanoed-Trotsky Returns to 70
! tvosrad.
while the bitter internal political
situation in Austria-Hungary seems u
have abated somewhat In intensity
No latest indications are that Dc
neath the surface the fire of discon
tsnt Is merely smoldering and that al
no distant date it again may break
ont In q veritable conflagration.
The politicians apparently with opti
mistic utterances have Quoted a sit
nation that admittedly is fraugth Win
grave possibilities SO far as the dual
monarchy is concerned, but the known
war WEAKNESS Of the populace and the
food shortage are likely soon again 10
bring the people into sharp discora
with the authorities.
The general strike, which 1t is as
serted took more than million men
and women from their work--a large
proportion of them engaged In wal
industries ended Monday
morning, but at last accounts the peo
yle still were clamoring for food ana
for a cessation of hostilities.
At the moment of the outburst OF
public discomfort and throughout the
days when the discord was strong
est, the government of the dual mon
archy showed it was keenly alive to
the necessity of calming the unrest
Immediately the cry of peace arose
there came from the halls OF the gov
eminent the answer: I'VE are ready
for peace without annexations or IN
IDENTITIES" and it was added that this
feeling was shared in to the utmost
| by the emperor-king.
The loquacious Austrian press
heralded broadcast the alleged peace
desire of the government and king
and its utterances likely had much to
do with the subsistence OF the popular
clamor. With the return of the PEG
ple to work. however, the newspapers
apparently have felt the stern hand
Of the censor for nothing concernin8
the situation in Austria or Hungary
has since been permitted to CREEP
through.
Likewise, in Germany the censor
ship seemingly is holding the news
papers in check as regards discus
sion of internal affairs in that coun
try The only mixing of the still
tense situation is contained in Leip
sic newspaper, which announces the
impending resignation Of Vice-admiral
Won Mueller, chief of Emperor Viii
liam's naval cabinet, who is declared
to be out of harmoney with the pan,
Germsns because of his desire for q
peace by unders landing with Great
Britain.
Meanwhile, Admiral Won Tirpitz
father of Germany's submarine cam
saign. one of the leaders of the Pan
Germans and Great Britains arch
enemy, continues to tour the country
delivering bombastic speeches and
holding out to the people the chimera
of ultimate success for German arms
A basic point in his arguments, how
ever. seems to be that in order tc
gain this success it is needful fo1
the whole of the economic power o.
the nation be used.
The status of the situation as re
CARDS Russia and the Brest-litovsk
peace conference remains unchanged
Leon Trotsky, the bolshevik foreign
minister, who now Is in Petrcgrad, is
said to be preparing another note to
the entente powers on the subject o
peace.
On the fighting fronts comparative
calm prevails except for artillery
dusls and small patrol engagements.
That all has not gone as planned wit
the Austrian armies in Italy is indi
Gated by the fact that Gen. Szetoza'
6oroevic Is to take precedence even
ever Field Marshal Conrad Won Hoet-
sendorf who had been expected by
the Austrian war office to pierce the
Italian front with his reinforced arm!
and gain the Venetian plain before
the heavy snowfalls set in, but who's
plans tailed owing to the stiffe1in
Of the Italian line.
At PAL RAN COL lEGE