The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-10-24
HUNGARY BREAKS
WITH AUSTRIA
Budapest Asserts independence,
and Declares henceiorth Only
Personal Union With Vienna.
TeUT0N COALITION WRECKED.
pr5ciamanens by cxecho slosass, "
lyrfans and Rutherlars Reported.
LIBERALIZATION OF Austria into
Pour States Predicted.

London. - The German. Austro Hun.
garian coalition that was 10 extend
Teut0nic dominion through Miteleu-
nopa eastward Ia now u mass OF wreck
age The dual monarchy. 10 a frenzled
effort TO meet the requirements pre-
llmlnary To obtaining peace, has split
up. Hungary declaring itsSlf an indie
pendent slate
Al meeting OF the Hungarian par
lament a proclamation was read de.
claring Hungary 10 be an independent
state, says dispatch from Berlin for
warded Via Copenhagen.
Hcnceforth, the message adds, there
IL to be only personal union between
Austria and Hungary,
From other sources are received re-
ports that no, only Hungary, but Bo-
hemia and the Croatians have declared
their Independence
The liberalization Of Austria is fore
Swallowed Ia Vienna dispatches receiv-
ed through Reuters Amsterdam CORE
spondent The dispatches declare
Baron won HussGrek. the Austrian pre-
mier, has summoned a conference OF
the party leaders o discuss the issuing
o. proclamation transforming Aus
trla into four states namely, German,
.,,.s.I., .s...l,a Sin,al HlVriau md
Prthenlan, with common head, com
mon representation abroad and com
mon defense
According TO the Berlir Tageblntt's
Vienna correspondent. says the dis
patch from Amsterdam, II Is expected
the Austrian emperor will issue a
proclamation inviting the respective
races TO prepare for the formation OF
federal states The questions affecting
Bukowna. Rumania, Bosnia, Herzego-
vina and Poland. the dispatch adds,
will be left for further arrangement
with the nations governed. The fed
eral states will be under the Hapsburg
sceptcr
DR.. Alexander Wekerle the Hun
garinn premier, says the Amsterdam
dispatch, referred to the matter In a
speech In the Hungarian diet and is
quoted MS having said:
Austria has organized herself on a
federal basis. We shall take our stand
on the basis Of personal union"
Dispatches from different sources
announce Czecho-Sloyak republic has
been proclaimed at Prague. Follow
Ing open revolt the independence OF
Poland has been proclaimed ~ War.
saw, while Croatia intends 10 proclaim
her Independence from Austria.
Thus Germany. with her southern
and eastern fronts laid open by the
practically assured detection of her al
lies. faces not only grave military
disaste but also the danger of the dis
ruption OF the whole fabric of confed-
Grated German states
Emperor Charles OF Austria Is re-
ported TO have been Frustrated for the
last 30 hours, due TO the fact that
President Wilson failed 10 state his at
tItude toward Austria In his CORE
spondence with Germany.
According to a diplomatic authority
who is well acquainted with court af-
fairs in Vienna. the young emperor's
countenance remains splritless and
melancholy Berlin's peace efforts and
their failure have so detected him that
he refuses 10 see anybody. only the
empress and his physician remaining
AT his side
He refuses 10 attend functions until
his mind Is set az ease concerning the
Presidents attitude toward his coun-
try II Is said also that he was further
depressed by the revolt at Prague and
by the general strikes In Bohemia.