Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-29
Austrian Revolt Is AT Hand
Emperor Karl Sitting on a Volcano
Kaiser Gels Busy To Stop II

acknowledgements Of the Austro-
Hungarian dual monarchy is at hand
Dispatches from Budapest, Vienna and
other points in Austria and Hungary,
as well as from Berlin, indicate clearly
that Emperor Karl is sitting on vol
cano, which is emitting bursts of flame
and threatens at any moment to break
into full eruption.
Despite all that Kaiser Wilhelm and
the imperial advisers can do to prevent
it, the common people of the dual mon
archy are rapidly approaching the point
where the smallest provocaton will bring
about revolution.
The cabinet changes in Austria and
Hungary, the crown council hastily called
by the kaiser at great headquarters last
week to consider the Austrian problem,
the territorial concessions made by Aus
tria to Hungary and to Germany, all have
for their purpose the prevention at all
costs OF the threatened ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of the monarchy.
But the Slavs of southern Europe are
dying of starvation and penury. They
have suffered nearly four years as the
vassals Of Germany without realizing any
of the grandiloquent promises made by
their emperor and Kaiser Wilhelm. They
want freedom And 1t is only question
OF days when they will arise and demand
Vienna dispatches admit that the po-
fitical situation is most desperate Food
riots are common. Austria cannot feed
her own people, much less the Magyars
Of Hungary. She has turned to Germany
for help, asking Berlin to ration some
of the nations of Hungary.
But Berlin, too. is hungry. Where is
the food to come from?
Absolute famine before the first of July
now menaces ali of Austria Hungary 1t
is this, together with the threat of revo-
luton, that is believed to be delaying the
Austrian offensive against Italy.
In the effort to stll the cry for politi-
cal reform, Premier Kekerle of Hungary
has announced that the government is
determined to push a franchise reform
measure through parliament In the face
of the crisis the opposition, headed by
Count Tisza, has agreed to some of the
reforms.
The amendments framed by Wekerle's
new cabinet provide that citizens who
now lack the right to vote shall obtain
that right by giving proof of sufficient
education to have passed through four
classes of the national school and to mas
ter the Hungarian language.
Workmen are also to be given the right
to vote. The government promises that
social, economic and military reform will
follow the extension of suffrage.
But these concessions have not paci-
fled the Slavic races. They want to vote
for their own rulers.
The. most significant action they have
taken was at meeting at Agram. Rep
resentatives of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia
Herzeg Vonia, Dalmatta, 1stria and Med
Jumurje were present, and despite police
interference held several sessions
They passed resolutions demanding the
immediate creation of an independent
state of Slovenes, Croats and Serbans on
q democratic basis, free from entangle-
ments such as Germany had forced on
Iithuania and the other free" Russian
states.
The Jugo-Slav party leaders are active
~ and successfully effecting a concen-
tration Of their forces in other parts of
the country
They will have hard shedding Ger
many is determined to prevent any such
dismemberment of the dual monarchy. 1t
would embarrass the plans of the pam
Germanists. 1t would close the free pass
age to- the sea from the south which has
been their dream. 1t would prevent ac-
cess to Trieste and the Adriatic
So, at the instigation of Berlin, EN-
peror Karl has made further concessions
malta and CrOtia to the Hungarian crown
lands. Vienna also proposes to annex
Bosnia and Herzegovina to Hungary.
But the fight for an independent south
ern Slavic state has not been impeded.
One attempt was made by organizing a
Germanophile anti-JugO-Slav party at
Serajevo, Serbia, to combat the move
ment, but it failed almost before it start
ed.
Ask Aid of Allies.
The Slav leaders declare the allies can
help them materially by declaring def
nitely as one of their war aims for the
termination of the Austro- German ALI
ance and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Aus
trian empire.
They cannot understand how the Allies
can hope to win the mastery of Europe
so long as Austria remains the connecting
link between Germany and the Balkans
The Teutonic inhabitants Of Austria