Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-28
CzERN|N HIT
BYWARCANC
OF GERMANY
Austrian Stirs Kaiser Crowd
to Wrath as He Leaves
for Peace Farley.

Amsterdam, Jan. 2S.-Count Czernin,
the Austro-Hungarian foreign minis
ter, left Sunday for Brest-LitOvsk
where the negotiations with the Rus
slams are taking place, according to
Vienna advices today. He was accom-
panied by numerous officials. Count
Czernin's policy in administering Aus
tria-Hungary's foreign affairs has been
endorsed by the foreign affairs COM
mittee of the reichsrath which has
adopted vote of confidence by IA
votes against Z.
Sent to Wilson?
The Hague, Jan 2S.-The Cologne
Gazette publishes the following mes
sage from Vienna correspondent:
Count Czernin's statement to an
Austrian delegation today that the text
of his speech had already been laid
before President Wilson when he de-
livered it has created sensation here.
1t is taken to confirm the view that
Count Czernin's reply to President
Wilson represented step which had
already been taken along line intend
ed to lead to the inducement of the
western powers to come to discus
sion of terms with Germany
Speech Not Received.
Washington, Jan. 2S.-Surprise was
expressed at the state department to-
day at news dispatches saying that
Count Czernin had forwarded to Presi-
dent Wilson a copy of his speech be-
fore it was delivered in Austria
Secretary Lansing declared no copy
| had been received in advance of publ
cation nor since.
(By Associated Press.)
Count CZernin's speech on Austrian
sent in advance to President Wilson
, has aroused the pan-Germans, and
their newspapers are bitter in their
denunciation of the Hungarian
| foreign minister. 1t is declared that
the counts action means break in
the Austro-German alliance and one
pan-German newspaper has been sup
pressed for suggesting that Germany
abandon her foremost ally.
| While the workmen in Austria ap-
parently have returned to work, re-
! pOt 10 have UCCu lCCCltcu I1Olldlu al
disturbances in the industrial district
along the Rhine in Germany. Few de-
tails have been obtained but it is stated
that troops with machine guns have
been sent to Mulheim, a manufacturing
town on the Rhine opposite Cologne.
Meanwhile pan-German attacks on
the leading politicians and even in
Guiding the emperor, continue and
have spread to criticism of Count Won
Roedern, the imperial treasurer who
is said to have told the emperor that
Germany is not in financial condition
for offensive operations. Dr. Won
Kuehlmann. the foreign minister, has
defended his course in the Russian
parleys by assailing the Bolsheviki
government and its purposes. His eff
forts have failed to check socialist at
lacks on the governments peace atti-
tude toward Russia.
London, Jan. 2S.-What news has
been permitted to pass the German
censor indicates that political 'hor-
nets nest has again been stirred up in
Germany.
| A dispatch from Zurich to the Ex-
change Telegraph company quotes the
Berlin correspondent of the Frank
furter Zeitung as saying that the PAN
Germans are kicking up tremend-
Gus row." and declaring that Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg and General Won
Ludendorff, dissatisfied with Chancel-
lor Hertlings speech before the main
committee of the reichstag, are again
| talking of retiring.