The sun., 1918-09-16
SMASH AUSTRIA Is
CRY OF 8 NATIONS
Tremendous Gathering at Car
negie Hall Answers "Peace,
Proposal.
HITCHCOCK TELLS AIMS
Chairman Of Foreign Relations
Committee Outlines War
Ideals of L. s.

At the very moment that the Boche
was sending forth via Australia
his latest proposals for an alleged peace
thousands upon thousands Of the repre-
sentatives Of suffering peoples whose
home lands are at the mercy Of Austria
Hungary were hocking eagerly toward
Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon to
cheer for the Allies and to declare with
Slavic .fervor that no peace can come to
the world until the Austro-H Hungarian
Empire Is dismenbered.
They filled every seat in the big audi
torium and up to the highest balconies.
Lines OF men. women and children, all
nj one timo sufferers under Austrias
iron heel. stretched away. four abreast.
for long distances east and west through
T'ifty-seventh street, only to be told that
Carnegie Hall was filled to overlooking
and no more could be admitted.
And the thousands inside and outside
Carnegie Hall presented the paradox of
q great throng of what might be called
our "theoretical enemy aliens" gathered
10 champion the cause OF Austria-Hun-
gary's enemies.
Victory Meeting of Oppressed.
A Victory Meeting for the Oppressed
Nationalitics of Central Europe was
the name given to the great Czecho-
Siovak assemblage by the liberty loving
representatives OF the nine nations
which, against their will. Australia
gary includes within her empire. In the
iirong were the Czechs, with the Slo-
caks. Poles. South Slavs, Serbo-Croats
Slovenes- Rumanians and many others
Good looking girls In the picturesque
costumes OF their own countries sold
programmes-the money thus obtained
to be invested in War Savings Stamps
and acted as ushers.
American Czecho-Slovak volunteer SOL
diers. soon to leave for France to fight
with the Allies and now In training at
Stamford. carried the Stars and Stripes
and their own banners to the stage. the
thousands in the audience cheering hys-
terically as they saw the stalwart young
men. wearing a uniform closely resem-
bling that Of the Blue Devils of France.
mount the stage with the flags flying.
Cheers for Paderewski.
Their eminent leader. Prof Thomas C.
Masaryk. who Is president of the Czecho-
Slovak National Council-now recog-
nized officially by America and her al
lies as the Czecho-Slovak Provisional
iovernment-stirred up again the tre-
'nendous cheers as he stepped out to al
dress them. The sight of the tawny
ieonine head of Ignace Paderewski
pressing through the crowd OF heads on
the stage caused the outbursts OF en-
thusiasm to boil up anew.
The chairman OF the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs. Senator Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock of Nebraska, added ear
rest words that kept the all pervading
enthusiasts always up to the boiling
point. And there were stirring ad-
dresses by Lieut.. Fasile Stoica. presi-
dent of the Rumanian National League
of America, whose blue gray sleeve bore
the two little strips which showed he had
been wounded twice while fighting with
the Allies: by DR.. Hinko Hinkovitch.
representative of the Jugoslav National
Council; by NJ. Pierre De Lanux. the elo-
quent Young member OF the French
High Commission; by the leader of
the Czecho-Slovak Government, Prof
Masaryk. and by Paderewski.
American audiences that have had the
good fortune in recent times to listen
to the fiery patriotic speeches of the
world famous Polish pianist and patriot
need not be told that. as usual. Pader-
ewski's address, in faultless English,
caused the most enthusiastic outburst OF
the day. With an assurance, a choice
OF words and apt and concrete SMILES.
and above all with an intensity and
sincerity that no mere elocutionist could
simulate. NJ. Paderewski spoke In a way
that swayed the emotions Of his audi
ence quite as he is able to sway his
hearers with the musical art of which
he is master.
Smash Empire Is Keynote.
The crushing Of Austria Hungary, the
absolute smashing OF the Dual Monarchy.
was the keynote OF all the addresses
delivered throughout a meeting which
held the complete attention OF the big
assemblage from o'clock in the after
noon until p. NJ. BY American speak
erS as well as by the orators represent
Ing the Czecho- Slovak nations. the peace
feelers put forth by Austria Hungary a
few hours earlier were dwelt upon de-
risively as but another instance OF Teu-
tonic propaganda to save for Germany
her spells of war by creating a false
movement toward peace" among the
nations of the Allies.
Senator Hitchcock voiced the senti-
nents OF his colleagues on the plat
form when he answered these latest
and all other insinccre peace" pro-
posals of the enemy by quoting the
words used by President Wilson when
German propaganda made itself felt In
tentative feelers In the past--to meet
force with all the force the allied ma
tons are capable of until the Teuton
Is crushed to the point where he is
willing 10 listen TO the just peace terms
for which the Allies will fight to the
end.
Two things we must do" cried Sena-
Tor Hitchcock. First we must win a
military triumph over Germany and her
alies-nothing less will do. tTremen-
dous cheering.1 The German people
must actually taste of the bitterness OF
lesson that military autocracy is a fall
ure. Applause. That truth must he
burned into the soul OF Germany IN
order that her people may permanently
abandon the idea OF world conquest
support Freedom Demands.
Until they do abandon II the world
will not be free from war and must be
ready for It. The other thing we must
do Is TO support the demands for free
dom and independence made by the
Poles. the Bohemians and the Jugo-
slsvs."
II any Austro-Iungarian had come 10
the meeting with the notion that In the
hearts OF the countless natives OF the
Dual Monarchy present there remained
some dregs of allegiance to the empire
his notion would have been exploded
promptly amid the hysteria OF cheers
that greeted Senator Hitchcock's state
ment. Again the sorely tried steel
raftsrs OF Carnegie Hall were put~to
one OF the many tests which kept the
girders trembling throughout the after
noon.
"Aperica bayinr entsrad tba mo. a.,