Evening star., 1918-08-25
Berlin AND Vienna
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Kaiser Wants to Grab All of
Spoils in East-CharIes
Opposes.
ALLIANCE is TREMBLING
BY RENE EEIBELMAN.
Cablesram to The Sunday star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

AMSTERDAM. Holland. August "a.
The Polish question is bringing
about q conflict between Berlin and
Vienna, the consequences of which
may be manifold. The disputes be-
tween the Austrian and German lead
ers during the recent imperial con-
ference have been bitter in character
for the reason that Germany admit
ted1y wants to settle all the eastern
questions from Finland to the Cau-
casus according to Germany's sole in
mount interest in the settlement to be
arrived at in Poland.
German statesmen have mapped out
the eastern program as follows:
Grand Duke Adoiph Frederick of
Mecklenburg as King of Finland; Es-
thonia, Livonia and Cour.and, de
tached" from Russia and turned into
Prussian provinces or 4 Prussian-
lied duchy to be ruled by one of the
kaiser's sons: Lithuania to be turned
into kingdom under a German duke
as king: Poland to become the vas
sal of Germany with the colorless
Austrian Archduke Charles Stephen
on the throne; the Ukraine to be ruled
by the pro-German hetman. Skoro-
padski. governing according to Ger
many's orders.
Austria Wants Poland.
Ever since Poland was conquered,
Austria, wishing to unite the Poles
in Austria with their compatriots, has
declared that the future Polish king
dom should come under the Hapsburg
crown, the Austrian emperor thus be-
coming king. The Poles of Galicia
have especially favored this scheme.
Now Germany has vetoed it on the
ground that German and not Austrian
soldiers freed Poland. All that can
be done for Austria is to hand the
unsafe Polish throne to an insignifi-
cant Austrian archduke. as the place
is considered too unstable for son OF
the German kaiser.
The German veto was spoken at the
imperial conference by the kaiser
himself and confirmed by Chancellor
Won Hertling ard Foreign Minister
Won Hintze. 1t is reported that when
this word was delivered the tempera :
ture at the conference sank to zero
and Emperor Charles of Austria left
in a hurry. without even exhausting
the discussion of the other problems
Next Move Awaited.
What is the next move? 1t seems
impossible for Austria not to yield in
1.-THE end. yet if il climbs down as il
has done repeatedly during the war a
deep feeling of hatred and disappoint-
ment will be left behind Added to
that which is already existing it will
go far to make further German-Aus.
trian friendship impossible. 1t is un-
likely that Germany will want to
ALLEVIATE Austria after the war, for il
fears Austria's genius for intrigue
and may need the Austrian man pow.
er on the western battle front.
Austria, however. is not going to
give men from now on unless it gets
something in return. Had Germany
agreed to the Austrian solution of the
Polish problem it is hardly likely
that Austria would have refused men
to its ally. Now things are different
Were the Austrian emperor to sane
ton the dispatch of great armies to
the western front after a singing
humiliation at the hands of the Ger
mans there would be a storm of indig-
nation throughout Austria.
Austria Guards Comment.
Austrian comment is guarded be.
cause of the severe censorship, bu,
the Vienna correspondent of the
Frrankfurter> >Zeitung wonders wha
effect the present difficulties between
the two allies will have on the pres.
ent negotiations at Salzburg. The
Forthcoming renewal of the German.
Austrian treaty of alliance opens the
question of what is the good of an al
lance in which one ally always has
the better of the other and the latter
is continually duped
Count Burian yesterday made the
vague statement that "the Polish
question will rapidly be settled. Pol
ish delegates will take part in the
coming negotiations, as we are of the
opinion that Poland must choose hel
king herself"
Well informed persons declare that
II Germany adheres to its veto Count
Burian will resign and perhaps .the
Two Austro-Hungarian cabinets will
go out as well.
FARMERS TO YIELD HOLIDAYS.