The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-10
HAPSBURG EMPIRE
FAST BREAKING UP
Final Lines Of Cleavage Must
Await Decision Of Peace
Conference.
CzECHO sLOvAKs LEAD
Northwestern Section Claimed
BY Them and Much Of 1t
Is in Their Hands.

Those clear visioned statesmen. schol-
ars and patriots who from the beginning
of the war in 1914 have predicted tho
Inevitable defeat of the Central Powers
and as an issue OF that defeat the par
tition of the Austro- Hungarian Empire
have had their justification within re-
cent weeks, beginning with the recog-
milton of the Czecho-Slovak nation by
the United States and her allies ana
ending with the appeal for an armisticc
by the commander of the Austrian arm
les to the italian high command.
The recognition Of the Csecho-Slovaks,
taken alone, and with the forces ar
rayed against Germany and her allies
in the ascendant is sufficient guarantee
that when the councillors arise from
the peace table the map Of southeastern
Europe will have undergone changes
that shall express at once the realiza-
ton of dreams cherished by oppressed
peoples through centuries ana the shht-
tering of the dreams OF those kings and
their administrators who nourished 20
long the delusion Of divine right and
dominion by force.
Must Await Peace Treaty.
Exactly upon what lines Of cleavage
the Dual Monarchy will be cut apart
no one can know until the war Is over
and the peace conference shall have
concluded its deliberations. But Hun
gary already has proclaimed Its inde-
pendence of Austria and of the German
alliance, and the inhabitants Of various
other portions OF the empire express
| their demands either for separation into
| self contained states or liaison with
other countries or nations of which they
claim to be part
The northern, and especially the north
western, section Of the empire as 1t
used to be Is claimed by the Czecho-
| Slovaks They already command con-
siderable portion of It and have pro-
| claimed their Government with Prague
| as its capital. Bohemia Moravia 3rd
| Silesia they possess. but their claims on
| racial grounds run across the TUth part
of Hungary, comprising something be-
tween a fourth and a fifth Of Hungary
proper and excluding only Galicia, which
In it's turn claims the right to be In
cluded within Poland restored.
The New Jugo-slavia.
/, The Jugo-Slavs, or South Slavs, de-
| sire that their State and separate Gov
e-nment shall include the whole Austro-
lngarian littoral upon the Adriatic,
, Is It'll the exception of that northernmost
section OF 1t which is claimed by Italy
as Italia Irrredenta- Their pretension5
| take in Carniola, Croatia. Slavonia,
Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia
itself and Montenegro. the peoples to set
tie among themselves whether Serbia
and Montenegro shall remain intact as
countries by themselves but federated
with Jugo-Slavia.
Pennsylvania. lying In the east OF
| Hungary. Is desired as a matter of right
by Rumania as part of Rumania unre-
deemed
The world has not been Informed
whether, Austria proper proposes to re-
main intact, separate into two or more
States or become part OF the new Ger
many wfpich may possibly emerge democ-
ratified upon what the victors prescribe
as the territory which may remain Ger
man after old Germany has paid in full
Every day last week brought its des-
patches setting forth what the Austr!ans
proposed TO do with themselves after
they had set aside their king Other
dispatches of equal reliability, each ono
contradicting another. are likely TO in
terest the world so long as the present
Government is able to maintain the SEM
blance OF rule.
In studying the map of Austria Hun
gary from now until the last issue of the
war has been settled 1t must be reme,u-
bered that there Is no authority bold
enough to fix. or attempt to fix. the
boundaries OF any OF the new states or
nations except within the most elasl.
of frontiers. For while In the main III :
map of Austria Hungary may be plottel
upon racial lines there is no section ~
the empire wholly Austrian, wholly Hut
garian. or wholly Slav.
! Only Two Things Certain.
Just as there are parts of old Polani
so populated by Germans as to be. eN-
cept territorially, a part of Germany, 81
there are territories of Hungary utteriy
Austrian and places in the Sav sections
Of the empire where Hungarians pre-
, dominate. And in the northern and
western sections of Bohemia, the main
state of Czecho-Slovakia and contains
its capital, there are German Bohemian
who already have proclaimed the right
; to Independence for themselves and have
. set up what they describe as a capital.
II There are only two propositions re-
, garded as definite in the whole matter
of the partition of the Hapsburg en-
pire. II already has begun to dis>otl
and inevitably must resign its sway over
other large sections of its territory. The
other certain thing is that whateve'
quarrels and jealousies may spring m
, in the creation of the new states and
, alottments, will be settled without fur
Their warfare. The United States and II:
allies will gave due attention to that