Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-25

PETROGRAD. Jan GA wireless
message received by he Bolsheviki o.
day announced a revolution in Vienna
The dispatch was received by Smolny
institute, headquarters of the Trotzcy-
Lenine government.
1t decided that the revoiutionists- have
named a provisional cabinet
The minister of foreign affairs made
the message public. He declared the
report as received did not give the
names of the provisional ministry nor
any further details than the bare men.
ton of the revolution
The message to the Smoiny Institute
Is the first rumor of an actual reyolu-
tionary movement in Austria-Hunsary.
Dispatches for the past week have re-
ported great social and economic unrest
in the dual empire. The people were reA
ported incensed at the nnilitarist prom
annexatonist attitude of Teutonic peaca
delegates at Brest-Eitovsk. They were
represented as crying out for peace to
end a war WEAKNESS constantly increas-
ing and manifest through a general
strike throughout the dual monarchy.
The Bolsheviki from the very first
have sought increasingly to overthrow
the Teutonic government by a movement
people overthrow the car. They went
a step further than President Wilson
has urged. Bolsheviki propagandists be-
gan sowing the seed of a social upris-
ing Immediately after the armistice be-
came effective on the northern fronts.
The closest determination between Rus
slams and Austrians was noted every
where. Russian revolutionary literal ure
was spred broadcast.
About ten days ago Swiss reports car
ried rumors of a general striks move
ment gaining Roadway in Emperor Karl's
nation. Apparently this started in Hun
gary-which has always been FESTIVE
under Austrian domination and whose
people are racially related to the Rus
SLAMS.
Budapest was the scene of a number
of demonstrations for peace; newspapers
there openly denounced German Junker
leaders as endangering all hopes of peace
with Russia through their insistence on
annexationist aims.
Vienna apparently joined next in the
general unrest. A number of strikes
were reported nearly a week ago. Fo3d
demonstrations followed The general
strike movement spread rapidly through
out the nation. Austria Immediately
clapped on rigid censorship. Her
frontiers were ordered closed. But even
through this veil occasional reports sift-
ed into Switzerland indicating almost
complete paralysis of industry in Aus
tria-Hungary.
1t is possible that with the Bolshevikt
wish for a revolution in Austria-Hun-
gary father to the thought, Smolny in
stitute dispatches may be merely an ex-
aggerated report of the general strike
movement AS against this however, is
the fact that such a message was ac-
tually received by wireless-indicating
that some revolutionary force in the
country may have control Of this system
of communication.
Dispatches from Washington during
the past two days have expressed the
American governments warning to all
people that the Teutonic autocrats would
not be above a gigantic hoax in spread
ing broadcast the impression that con-
iitlons in the central empires were.
near the breaking point-the scheme be-
ing thus to Influence Americans to re-
lax war preparations under the belief
that President Wilson's plea to the Ger
man peoples to form a democratic gov
eminent had borne fruit
Russia is peculiarly susceptible
ground for Germanic propaganda at the
present time 1t is entirely within the
bounds of conjecture that the Germans
may nave planted" such wireless
message with the hope that the Bolshe-
Wiki enthusiasts would hurry to accept.
the separate peace proposals of Ger
many and her allies on the assumption
that the Germanic peoples were ready
to join with the Russian proletariat.