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New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Nnly One Way to Put an End
~ To These Intrigues

Then Polonyl, Minister of Justice
eleven years ago, argued that the forma-
tlon of an independent Hungarian army
was the only way of stopping such IN
trlgues. Count Julius Andrassy professcd
that he felt no alarm about the nationalist
and federalst aspirations of the Czechs
T South-Slavs and Ukrainians; nevertheless
he regarded the tendencies of the CZechs
grave danger for the dynasty and the
monarchy" They were proved disloyal
and part Of their troops went over to the
enemy. From the standpoint of the mon
archy, as a whole, he said: "It is undoubt-
edly most harmful that the Slavs follow
so revolutionary policy That can only
lead to the collapse of Austria"
Andrassy admitted that he at first was
also hurt by the silence of the Premier
and the President of the Austrian Parlia-
ment, for if they approved the attacks
of the Czechs upon Hungary "a further
common life between these two states of
the monarchy would be IMPOSSIBLE; but
he went on to give grounds for conclud-
ing that their silence could not be con-
strued as approval
Then Dr. Wekerle, the Prime Minister.
assured the House that every possible
step was being taken to prevent Czech
agitation among the Slovaks of Hungary.
He had presented memorandum, he said
3. fUth to the Austrian Premier and tho
Emperor denouncing the Slav claims as
unjust and incompatible with Hungarian
interests and demanding that steps be
taken to punish such attacks in future.
1t contained this passage: "And as it
concerns us, too, whether our neighbor
Austria is organized on federalist, or q
dual basis, l went so far as to declare
that unless the ground were energetically
cut away from under these intrigues the
process of dissolution must begin"
Wekerle went on to assert that the
Savs must revise their aspirations by
bringing them into harmony with the
dualist basis of the empire He appealed
for unity as the best guarantee against
olav aspirations. "That," he said, sis our
strong and impregnable fortress, if the
golden band which unites us is strength
ened by the support of the crown And to
prove its impregnable character | venture,
with his majesty's permission, to an
nounce his declaration, but there is not
even the bare possibility of his majesty
not employing all his authority to nullify
'Hcrts directed against the lawful inde-
andence or territorial integrity of the
ungarian state"
This caused the Slavs-Czechs and
/, south Slavs--in the Austrian Parliament
| TO return to the fight. They interpellated
the Premier about his attitude in this
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

tho same period 2,soo,ooo approximately
10000 per million. Hungary had lost 15Oo,-
900, approximately 10000 per million. At
the outbreak of the population of the
Central Empires was about two and half
times great as that of the United King
dom; their losses of births had apparently
been ten times as great"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Electricity and War in the
Kaiser's Domain

THE 'Frankfurter Zeitung" announces
that the German government has
requisltioned all electrical machinery and
apparatus, and it is not now possible to
buy or sell electric motors without special
permit.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
\ Standpoint That Must Be
a Interpreted With Discrimination

Then on January another session of
the committee was held, at which Baron
Won dem Bussche, Under Secretary of
State in the Foreign Office, made this
statement: "The standpoint of the I'M
perial Chancellor remains unchanged in
regard to the right of peoples to self
determination; but his standpoint must
not be interpreted merely in the interests
OF the Entente. The version printed in
the neutral press, according to which the
Russian delegates rejected the German
proposal Of December % as not discuss
ible, is in fact Incorrect"
About the same time the Chancellor
himself invited the party leaders of the
majority to his palace and assured them
that he still adhered to his declaration,
made in the Reichstag on November 20,
IN regard to self-determination, and this
renewal of his avowal is described in the
"Berliner Tageblatt" as having ''had a
visiby soothing effect even upon the So
cial Democrats" That declaration in the
Reichstag was in the following words:
"As for the future of Poland Courland and
Llthuanla, we can leave it to the self deter
minatlon of their peoples We expect them
to give themselves such a political structure
as answers to their conditions and the ten
dency Of their culture"
And there the matter rests for the
present, and the world is waiting to see
how the Chancellor will make good hi
words. Now that the Bolshevik delegatea
have refused to play longer at peace max
ing and have gone home without a peace
treaty the world seems invited to watch
all the more eagerly to see what Hertling
will do with his promise.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Maxims of the War
4 LBERT GUINON has some interest
y ing "Maxims of the Warp in "Ie

4 .LBERT GUINUN has some interest
"A ing "Maxims of the War" in lie
Gaulois," of Paris, few of which follow:
THE Germans are excellent creators of
the irreparable."
"The tendency of some persons to see
transcendent genius in the enemy command
ers is not evdence of the spirit of JUS
tice, but merely form of fear
There some statesmen who join to
their political folly the brusque manners of
honest men,"
"Let us appreciate at its full value, which
is of the highest, the organizing faculty Of
the Germans; but let not forget that our
allies. the English, have organized the uni
verse"
SIN politics. when one has solemnly pro-
nounced certain words, cannot say the
contrary. But one can do it,"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
7 hungary Grows Restive Under thu
L 1 Raging Of the Czechs

The correspondent, however, has his
The government he says, has adopted the
policy in Parliament of letting the Czechs
rage to their hearts content; and this was
causing discomfort in Hungary. Besides,
nobody knows whether this comedy NAV
not turn some day into a serious matter,
and II the government does not show
more resolution in making the Parlia-
ment comprehend the seriousness of its
tasks the government will some day find
Itself IN situation that it cannot mas
ter. 1t cannot be doubted that it's au-
thority must in the long run suffer great
ly if it continues it's present attitude"
In subsequent dispatch the same cor
respondent refers to numerous deser-
tions of Czechs to the Italians and their
general attitude at home, and then states
their political calculations in this form !:
If the Entente wins, then the wishes of
the Czechs will be fulfilled without fur
ther effort, for the Entente has been able
to reach the conclusion that the Czech
people, in their sympathies and their
strlvings, are on the side of the Entente
On the other hand, if the Central Powers
win out, then Austria will see that it has
discontented nation within it's borders
to be appeased, and will perforce have to
give the Czechs what they want.
After the above events the Czechs,
South Slavs and Ruthenians of Galicia
offered on December 3 a resolution in the
Austrian delegations asking for the ap.
whose task should be to secure the right
of self-determination of the various ma
tionalities. The Czech Deputy Stanek.
speaking to this resolution, referred to
conditions in Hungary as "a travesty of
all civilization" The President called him
to order, and thereupon followed such a
scene of wild and noisy confusion as onlv
Austrian political assemblies are able to
pull off.
During the next day or two the Czechs
and South Slavs pelted the government
with interpretations and questions. and
the Czech leader Stransky made an ex-
ceedingly violent attack upon the Hun.
garan delegates to the joint committee
("delegations") of the Dual Monarchy.
Facher, German deputy, said that Aus
trans and Hungarians would have to
stand together in repelling "the mighty
onslaught upon the existence of Austria
and Hungary undertaken by the Czechs
and South Slavs."
From all which the conclusion may be
drawn that the harmonious relations be-
tween Austria's subject races and their
government, with which many Austro-
German reports have tried to deceive the
world since the war began, do not exist
The beautiful contentment of these races
is a myth.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

commune TO nope tnat they Will attain their
object through our yielding disposition We
must deprive them of that hope"
Some of the Conservative leaders even
demanded in their public speeches that
the German military leaders should de-
eide what territory Germany should take
from Russia, emphasizing the idea that
purely strategical considerations should
prevail; in other words, Germany should
take whatever territory might seem neces-
sary for giving it strong military from
tier. And the National Liberal members
Of the Reichstag, not to be outdone in pa
triotic zeal, adopted unan mously a reso-
luton to the same intent and purpose.
<sNT 70 More Remuneration! No
IN More Foolish Concessionsi''
Junker organs appeared to get great
satisfaction from the changed prospect at
Brest-Litovsk. The "Deutsche Zeitung,"
of Berlin, wrote: eve hope that the time
has now come when we can and must
cast from US that, whole lie of July 19
(referring to the Reichstag's peace reso-
lution). We must cut loose, morally and
actually, from the ill-starred declaration
of December 25 at Brest-Litovsk." The
Berlin "Neueste Nachrichten," organ of
the Krupps and other industrial mag
mates, shouted: "No more renunciation,
no more foolish concessions" On the
other hand, the "Vosssche Zeitung,"
which was anxious to conclude a peace
with Russia as quickly as possible in
order to pave the way for an alliance
against England, thought that Germany
had already lost her case at Brest-
Litovsk, and the paper furiously attacked
Kiihlmann.
Now as to the question of the Russian
version of what occurred on December
28, and the German reaction to it. On
January a, in a session of the main COM
mittee of the Reichstag, Chancellor Count
, Won Hertling complained that the Russian
press was accusing the Germans of un-
fairly backing down from their declara.
ton of Christmas Day in favor of self
determination. He said that he "repelled
this lnsinuation," and added that the par
agraphs IN question were dictated by
purely practical considerations, and we
cannot depart from them"
Referring to these words, the "Vor-
warts" the Socialist organ, remarked:
we are sorry to have to say that either
the information given to the committee
by the Chancellor was incomplete or else
the Petersburg Telegraph Agency reports
something that is not true"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Two Principles Underlie All
i Constitutional Reform

Turning to the question Of constitu-
tlonal reform in Austria itself, the Pre-
mler said this must be governed by two
Fundamental principles-the assertion Of
the unity of the Austrian state and the
malntcnapce of the existing frontiers Of
each Grown land (province). Referring
then to the efforts to place individual
units OF the Austrian state in looser
relation to it, the Premier said:
Il must emphasize that such views do not
coincide with the programme of the govern
ment, which holds that any loosening of the
state structure would not be of advantage to
the state or to its component parts. 1t would
in any case be quite impossible to try to
solve such problems during the war. H.
however, the aim of such tendencies is to get
enemies to enforce by means of peace
conditions that could only come into being
from within and by the will of the state as
a whole, then such tendencies must be most
strongly condemned and rejected.
I'm maintaining the existing provincial
frontiers. the decisive idea is that the Crown
lands. they are to-day. are organisms of
historic growth, and are alive in the popular
consciousness, and consequently that no or
ganic change in our constitutional develop
mont could ignore these fundamental elc-
l'lSI'o III tHc SNdte' \IIOteSCS.)
He concluded by assuring Hungarian
public opinion 'that the Austrian govern
ment is planning nothing which could in
amy way impair the inviolability of Hun
garian territory or that foundation of the
state, the dual system, and that it must
repudiate any tendencies toward such an
upheaval.'
The Vienna correspondent of the
"Frankfurter Zeitung" said of these Slav
interpretations that if they could be
taken seriously they would mean civil
war and revolution. Putting the question:
What power is there to back up this
threat? the correspondent adds that Aus.
tria is far from being Russia, civil order
in the state is nowhere undermined, and
1.-The Czech troops, as precaution, are
mixed on the 'front.'
Evening star., 1918-08-25

self into social form as she explained
to the man that she made a point
of romping with the children at dusk,
and and that the fun always ROUNDED up up
wouldn't he please walk in?"
stand at the door. ut must take a
great deal Of money to feed those
yo%Tgsters s, as sht prices ,o are no% now work
that old typewriter day and night.
Just came home to fix supper for the
children and set them at their lessons.
j like my work and hope to pull out
all right" Then h she W waited na.I,. for or the
II am afraid 1t puts you in. debt.
Creditors can't be expected to walt"
"oh. icy eyerybody Low owe Is mighty a,H. nice ice
best i can. and that viii pull
through all right in the end. Besides.
! have relative who sends me fat
little check now and then. I'm expect
Ing one every minute
II " have ys,, bill here, madam"
"It Is for the rent. We let it run over
this month. as usual. but the new
owner Is woman who depends on
the income for her own expenses. and
she wants her house or her money by
10 o'clock In the morning.
"Oh, but i can't move. really can
not. For one thing, I haven't the
money. and besides this Is the dearest
old house--there's such lovely yard
for the children to play in-the sun
gets in there even on rainy days-and,
besides. always pay, sooner or later"
"Sorry. madam, but business is busi-
ness" -,47
She saw by his face that he meant
1t. And then she saw that 1t was a
peculiar face; that he had a long
white side tooth that lifted his lip
when he spoke. and that he had gray
hair to match the gray Of his suit.
,o When II the ., engaging sister came
standing in the dark of the hall trying
her best not to cry. she reached out
her arms and scooped her in. Then she
asked:
What on earth Is the matter-who
was that at the door?" III. i
And the mamma woman trembled
out:
1.-THE WOLF" ~
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1918-08-25
Like Old 81.

JAMES HOPPER, war correspondent,
who broke all war correspondent
records by going "over the top" with
the doughboys at Cantigny, has a
hatred Of taking.
At a fish dinner in Paris q taking
correspondent denied that he had ever
written any fakes.
We'll, GEORGE" said Mr.. Hopper,
maybe you're like old 81 Peacharn.
"'Tm eighty-nine years Of age,' said
old 81 in the general store. and don't
remember ever to have told lie.'
1.-The general storekeeper gave a
short, rasping laugh.
well, ST. he said, nobody expects
you to have much Of a memory at your
age"
Evening star., 1918-08-25
Around the CitV

when II comes to putting the house
on my shoulders or the poor baby's-
say, since you are SO set on not hav-
ing II In your own name. maybe Mr..
him."
Sounds silly. OF course; but, to quote
the agent. ignorance like that Is not
at ali a rare occurrence among women
who are having their first experience
with business. All they know about
buying a dreamed-of home is that it
takes a long time and means years
OF self-denial and signing of notes,
and, not understanding. they balk at
the unknown.
And you will remember, unless your
patriotism refuses to indulge In Ger
worlds greatest medical scientists
were In session at Bonne, and after
each authority had read his paner ON
some special ism, 1t was decided that
every man write. unofiicially, on slip
ms honest secret opinion Of human
And when the unsigned slips were
read, OF the twenty men present nine
teen or them had written the word
fear" The twentieth man wrote;
rear OF the unknown"
\
A*
A MAN rang the bell of a house in
the first ward and asked the
woman who answered It II she was
Mrs. Blank. The woman smiled en-
gagingly and said that she was Mrs.
Blanks sister. and invited him in.
The man preferred to stand at the
There was a draped portiere at the
parlor grill, and the man couldn't helm
seeing on Its floor a squirminE hear
or children piled on top Of one another
and under the kicking arms and legs
q woman VINO scrambled free and
VOICED embarrassment from the door,
Come. children. mamma has COM
Pany-nnish your game with me-"
me mamma woman, still chuckling,
patted her hair and Strengthened her
Evening star., 1918-08-25
Continued from Sixth Page.)

lions of dollars worth of army sup
plies from Swiss factories. condensed
milk and chocolate concerns. Having
organized the Red Cross prison camp
relief work. Dresel Is now buying all
the lumber which our Army ia using
Of shirts, shoes and other army sup
plies. From one big job Dresel has
been drawn into another. and other
able representatives Of that great re-
lief organization have succeeded him.
One afternoon. in company with
Carl Taylor, who Is now the official
representative of the A. ~ G. In
Switzerland, inspected Beumpliz and
the 'box factory Of SUSPICION" The
tering the large building, which now
has an electric sign on the roof read
ing american Red Cross "a sign
which all Germans can read as they
leave Switzerland for Germany was
the contents Of box of supplies des-
tined for one Of the unfortunates. On
a large sheet OF paper were spread the
supplies-food delicacies which could
not be purchased anywhere in Switz-
erland, and perhaps nowhere in Eu-
rope today. There was canned corn
beef, roast beef, salmon, corned beet
hash, pork and BEANS dried beans, to
matoes. hard bread, rice, evaporateG
milk, butter, sugar, coffee, jam,
prunes raisins. salt, pepper, vinegar,
chocolate, soap and 100 cigarettes.
This was one prisoners supply for seven
days.
In another box near by everything
was packed ready for shipping to Ger
many. In an adjoining room were
hundreds Of these boxes. strong wood
en- boxes. into which similar quanti-
ties and varieties of food were packed,
In the office was list of American
prisoners Once every week one box OF
this food and cigarettes Is shipped to
Germany. Outside the factory, on the
Evening star., 1918-08-25

two Chinese and one Japanese car.
uncle Sam took good care Of us ali
tne time. Indeed, we should not have
!e1t our work but for the insistence
out of. dangers way. That Tourney
across Siberia took us Just one month.
Much OF the time was spent by the
women in washing and menting
clothes. No nishap occurred, although
once we had to stop over week in
one village, waiting for permission
to go on. ~
**
"The advance of the train through
Marchuria was triumphal progress
for the Chinese minister, with bands
playing at the stations sand crowds
cheering as they saw the train go by.
Whenever we got of the train we
were treated like princesses.
Il. never felt SO important in all
my life." laughed Miss Spencer.
when we arrived in vladivostok 1T
seemed very natural to be greeted
with a snowtorm, drink tea from a
samovar and to hear that the boil
sheviki had taken possession Of the
telegraph station and had arrested
the owners of all big shops.
Eyes. do wish that might return
to Russia" answered the secretary
to question. II feel that our work
there counted for more than any
where else had ever worked, 1t Is
needed, and we see the results at
once, and 1t was deeply appreciated.
We pray that. in the hands of the
excellent women in whose charge we
left 1t. 1t Is going on satisfactorily.
but we should like to be there to
see.'' E.s
Asked about the rast dynasty. MiSs
Spencer. replied: Most of the people
we met had no desire to see 1t re.
stored, at least not that particular
house. The old dowager empress
was more popular with the people
than tho younger generation, but
one heard little talk of them. In
fact, people wer9 so absorbed with
other things that the thought or fate
of the former rulers of: the kingdom
occupied very little of their attention.
II should like to say that there was
no time during our stay. In Russia
when we were not proud of our fellow
citizens there. Whatever their mission
in that storm center they were all
conducting their work with ability
and discretion, and the Russians ap-
preciated the fact that they were
there from purely altruistic motives,
trusting them accordingly"
Evening star., 1918-08-25

SSotCciy uAT0 TO Inlnk
what they must be now,"
said Miss Clarissa Hale Spencer of
Cincinnati, one of eight women who
went to Russia last year to estab-
lish an American Young Women's
Christian Association headquarters.
Miss Spencer. with two other Y. w.
G. A. secretaries. established the
work in Petrograd last summer. and
spent the greater part OF the winter
In that city, ministering to the well
fare Of more than 200 business girls.
They were forced by internal condi-
tions to relinquish their work last
February. leaving 1t in the care of
two trained Russian secretaries. The
American Y. w. c. A. workers travel
ed to safety with the embassy party
which left Petrograd on February
rs. and reached Vladivostok a month
later. After spending some time in
Japan and China, Miss Spencer ar
rived in America In June. An ardent
showed her visitor in Washington
the remnant of small American
nag. all that was left of the Ameri-
can ensign which few from the car
bearing the Americans through the
forests of Siberia, the only emblem
X u
During the summer Of last year we
visited Moscow. Kief and Jitomir.
trying to decide which was the best
place to open work." said Miss spen->
Ger. FINALLY we decided on Petro-
grad. We found that the business
girls there needed. us more than any
other class, for the cost of living has
been raised many degrees, while the
salaries remained the same,
I'VE found a suitable house in
which to, plant the banner of. the
Y. w. c. A. In central location near
the Nevsky Prospect and all the big
shops: The building had been
school for the deaf and dumb. The
in the unsettled times. and SO we had
no rent to pay. merely lighting and
heat. There was good-sized hall,
large enough for gymnasium work.
Tho walls were decorated, unfortu-
nately, with large pictures of eut-of-
for basket ball and hand ball. These
were retired to cbscurity behind
screens.
I'VE started club and class activi-
ties and the gymnasium. We had a
good corps Of teachers, who gave in
structions In stenography, bookkeep-
ing and commercial arithmetic, in adj
ditiOn to the languages. To my sur
prise, all the girls wanted to learn
Eglish. SO we all turned In and taught
1t. The girls were bright and re-
sponsive. They were employed in the
government bureaus, in telegraph and
telephone offices, In banks, In the post
offices and in shops, with some of
them working in factories. They
came to us after working hours, and
as there are no standard working
hours for women in Russia, this
means that they came In at any time
from 8 to 8 pm.
Every day the girls came to us
for cheer and help, and 1t was our
part to give them constructive as
sistance. Petrograd was very dark
and cheerless last winter and we
began our classes with candles and
lamps Our evening work closed
early, never later than 8, aa. 1t was
not safe for the girls to be in the
streets after that hour One girl told
us that she had seen several an
archists put to death, and accounts
of grim happenings were given daily.
Happily for US, no tragedies or acci-
dents happened TO any of our girls
during the whole time was in Petro-
grad.
when the bolshevik revolution