Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Provision of Brest Treaty
Splits Calicia to APP
pease Ukrainia
PEACE ATTEMPT FAILS
Some Light Shed Upon Court
Scandal in Vienna.
Czernin Blamed
By AUSTIN WEST
Special Cable to Epening Public Ledger

Milan. July s.
Two significant items of news have
1ust been received from Austria.
It is reported from good source that
the clause in the secret treaty, signed
at Brest-Litovsk between the Ukraine
and the Central Powers. reads:
"The Ukraine having guaranteed 20
all naticnalities. the Poles included. the
complete right of free national develop
ment within the frontiers of the Ukran-
ian estate, Austria undertakes to assist
the Ukrainian subjects of the dual mon
archy in their national development by
forming a separate province of the
Ukrainian part of Galica and Buko-
wilma
"A measure, drafted in this sense,
will be presented to the Reichstrat not
later than July 81, 1918, and the Aus
trian Government will employ all the
constitutional means in its power to
secure the adoption of this law by
parliament"
Object in Wow
There are two things to be said on
this subject. BY the Ukraine part of
Galicia is meant, presumably. all Ga
licia east of the River San, where the
Ruthenians, to give them their now un-
fashionable name, form the ma ajority of
the population.
By cutting this very considerable slice
of territory out the Austrian Govern
ment hopes to diminish the representa-
tlon in the Reichsrat of two highly in
convenient alites--the Ukrainians
s-And the Poles-both now hotly in oppo-
sition.
Probably Austria would not have
dared to take this step had she any
hope of recapturing the affections of the
Poles, who regarded the partition of Ga
, licia almost in the light of fourth
partition of Poland, but the Poles have
been alienated for other reasons and
are now definitely in opposition. The
Austrian Governments method of deal
ing with an offending limb is to lop II
off.
Spurn Peace Feeler
The other item must be repeated un-
der reserve, although it comes from a
well-informed source to the Berne cor
respondent of the Secolo. According tc
him, there arrived last week at Berne
an important Austrian parsonage dele
gated by circles in close touch with the
Emperor. to sound the Allied represen
tatives as to basis of peace negotia
tons between the Entente and Austria
The emissary found every door shut ir
his face and promptly concluded thai
there was nothing doing. He is SAID
TO have now returned to Vienna.
Scandal Blamed on Czernin
Some light on the scandals at tn
court of Vienna and the widespread ru
mors in the Dual Monarchy of livit
scenes and threats of divorce between
Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, tn
quasi-universality of which has pro
voked the official communique is nov
shed by the Munich Neueste Nachrich
ten and the clerical Rechspost in re
porting speeches delivered before tn
Christian Socialist gathering in tn
Vienna town hall.
Doctor Funder. editor r-in-chief Of tn
Reichspost, and Prof. Leopold Kunschal
stated that the masses seemed to b
obsessed with the idea that the Empero
and Empress were responsible for havin
contributed not only to diplomatic. an
archy, but also to the recent serou
setback on the field of battle. As re
cards Empress Zita's alleged instrigue!
through her brothers, Princes Sixtus an
Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. the trutl
was, he said, that they set foot in Aus
tria during the war at the direct re
quest of Count Czernin, who desired t
intrust to them the mission of creating
in enemy countries certain condition
deemed Indispensable for preparing TO
peace negotiations.
The Sixtus Letter
In fact, said Doctor Funder, the En-
peror's letter to Sixtus was written a
Czernin's suggestion. Since Czernin ad
yised the Emperor to choose Prince Six
tus as the person best fitted for real
izing the plans of State, full respon
sibility for the document rested on Czer
min himself.
From the same sources we learn tina
the Imperial couple are believed t,
have vetoed the use of asphyxiating ga
and flame throwers. They are likewis
accused of having secured preferentia
treatment for Italian prisoners, Will
one of the Empress Zita's ladies-in-wait
ing, sent on a confidential mission t
Switzerland, had to be interned. 1t |
said, for having disclosed military plan
relating to Imperial defense
strange comment on the resolutio
of loyal trust in the Imperial househol
voted at the aforementioned gatherin
and intrusted to Monsignor Piff1. Arch
bishop of Vienna, for presentation at tn
foot OF the Imperial throne, is that
was suddenly summarily suppressed b
the censorship.