The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-24
'INSURCENT Govt
IS LAUNCHED BY
vienna REBELS
Austrian Revolution Breaks,
Says Petrograd Report.
Provisional Cabinet Is Named ;
Details Are Scarce.
ELIMINATES PEACE STRIKE
BOlsheviki Have Been Working
for Austrian Uprising.
German Imperialistic Claims
Added Fuel to Flames.
ELIMINATES PEACE STRIKE

London, jan 24.-An official de-
nial of the report that the Austro-
Hungarian government had been over
thrown was issued. in Vienna today.
according to dispatches from the Aus
trian capital received here.
Dispatches from Petrograd report
ing the receipt of wireless MESA ges
from Austria did not state the gov
ernment had been overthrown, but re-
ported the organization of the revo-
lutionary cabinet.
BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN
Petrugrzd. Jan. 24.-A wireless mes
sage Received by the Bolshevik today
annoul Ced a revolution in Vienna.
The dispatch was received by
Smolny institute, headquarters of the
Trotzky-Lenine government.
, 1t declared that the revolutionists
have named a provisional cabinet.
Under foreign ministry made the
message public
1t declared the report as received
did not give the names of the pro-
visional ministry nor any further de-
tails than the bare mention of the
revolution.
The message to the Smolny institute
is the first rumor of an actual revolu-
tionary movement in Austria-Hungary
Great Unrest for a Week.
Press dispatches for the past w .eh
have reported great social and eco
nomic unrest in the dual empire. The
people were reported incensed at S5e
militarists. pro-annexationlst attitude
oe Teutonic peace delegates at Brest-
Litovsk They were represented rs
crying ou- for peace to end war
WEAKNESS constantly increasing ano
manifest thru a general strike thruoui
the dua. monarchy.
The Bolsheviki from the very frs
have sought increasingly to overthrow
the Teutonic governments by a move
ment of the people-precisely as the
Russian people overthrew the czar
They went a step farther than Presi'
dent Wilson has urged Bolshevik
propaganda workers began sowing the
seed of a social uprising immediately
after the armistice became effective or
the northern fronts. The closest fra
termination between Russians and Aus
trians was noted everywhere. Rus
sian revolutionary literature was
spread broadcast.
Openly Denounce Germans.
About ten days ago Swiss reports
carried rumors of a general strike
movement gaining headway in EN-
peror Karl's nation. Apparently this
started in Hungary-which has al
ways been restive under Austrian
domination and whose people are
Budapest was the scene of a num-
Der of demonstrations for peace
Newspapers there openly denounced
German junker leaders as endanger-
ing all hopes of peace with Russia
thru their insistence on annexationis'
aims.
Vienna apparently Joined next in
the general unrest. A number OF
strikes were reported nearly a week
ago. Food demonstrations followed
The general strike movement spread
rapidly thruout the nation. Austria
imm mediately clapped on a rigid CEN
sorship. Her frontiers were ordered
closed. But even thru this veil .oc-
casional representatives sifted into
Switzerland indicating almost COM
plete paralysis of industry in Austria
Hungary.
Z. S. Propaganda There, Too.
1t is possible that with the Bolshe-
Wiki wist for a revolution in
Austria Hungary father to the
thought, the Smolny dispatch may be
merely an exaggerated report of the
general strike movement As against
this, however, is the fact that such a
message was actually received by
wireless-indicating that some revo-
lutionary force in the country may
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