Evening star., 1918-08-30
Pressure of Vienna and Mill
tary Disaster Changing
German Mind.
DISTRESS PREVAILS
IN DUAL MONARCHY
Fall Of Hapsburg Dynasty Is Hint.
ed-Huns May Strive to Keep
Russian Soil.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.

BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1913.
LONDON, August 30.-News
reaches me this morning from q
PAL ticularly reliable source ir
Switzerland to the effect that
not only Austria-Hungary, bu,
Prussia perceives the hand
writing on the wall as regards
the course of the war, and that
the Prussians now vie with the
Austrians in their eagerness tc
make an early peace by negotia-
tions. Prussia has been brought
to this frame of mind by Aus
trian pressure and military dis
aster.
Would Save An Possible.
Even before tho allied armies outgen-
oraled and outfought the Germans in the
west the Austrians were urging theiI
Prussian masters to sue for peace and
save what they could out Of the wreck
These cries from the distressed dual
monarchy fell on deaf carr while Luden-
dorff and Hindenburg were still able tc
boast. but now they are heard
The Prussian military crowd is anx-
ious for peace. I hear that it already
has set peace efforts afoot.
The Hapsburgs have told the Hohen-
zollerns that the game is up. They have
said that unless peace comes quickly
they cannot answer for what will hap
ers ahead. irreparably fatal to the Haps-
burg dynasty. They do not speak neces-
saTtty Of q republic succeeding tho pres
ent regime. but predict q revolution in.
yolving tho exit for sood ard all - thu
Calsmity q seen.
Their argument runs thus:
~our deepest trouble IL not shortage
of food nor material haEdships OF any
kind; it Is the general realization
that Prussia's methods Of warfare
have made, us like the Prussians
odious throughout the world. and tina,
even IL we won all of Italy the out
come of the war still would be for US
calamity"
These are the lines on which I be-
lieve the enemy peace efforts will
run:
Germany to be left free to deveiop
the countries she has taken from
Russia in the north and to abandon
an plans menacing Aisa Minor. Persia
and India.
The Dardanelles to be international.
lied.
Alsace-Lorraine to be made An In.
dependent state
France and Belgium to be evacuat-
ed entirely.
Rumania and Serbia to bs treated
like A1sace-Lorraine.
Tho Balkan nationalities to be pre-
served.
Possible Prussian Argument.
Prussia's argument may be sum-
married. thus:
IF we are permitted to deve1p the
border states once under the car in
the north we shall have all we want
for 200 years. We shall need moth
ing in the west, nothing in the south
east or middle east"
With the military position SO bad
for the Germans at present, and so
much more threatening for them in
the future, and with their political
difficulties growing ever more acute
one probably would not go far wrong
in expecting dramatic development
in a peace movement from the
enemy's side at an early date.
Britons, however, are at one with
President Wilson in wanting no deal
ings with the Hohenzollerns, and in
their determination to win such q
victory in the field as will compel the
Germans to disgorge all they have
bolted and restore the countries they
have UNANIMOUSLY devastated.