The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-22
.Austro-HunGary Revoas.

Amsterdam. Jan. 21.-~Revoit IL
sweeping through Austria-H Hungary
at wild fire pace. Overnight the num-
osr of strikers has grown from leo.-
600 to near 100000 men and wo-
men. The empires munitions outpu.
10 paralyZed. Trade and traffic are
almost at a standstill. except where
Cney are kept going by troops hastily
summoned from the front Peace
ana bread riots are converting the
cities into armed camps. With the
demands for peace and bread In ming
ing cry of hate against the pan
Germans, who are held Responsible
Tor the fact that peace has not yet
been concluded, at least with Russia
me cabinet. Count Cxernin In the
Iead: is said to have resigned. The
berlin Morgen-Post asserts this. ada.
ing that Count Toggenburg has beer
asked by Emperor Charles to form =
new government.
The young emperor himself stands
between the menace to his throna
from within and complete surrender
70 the annexationists at Berlin.
Exchange Frantic Messa0es
Iranuc interchange of messa raa
- going on all day and all night be-.
tween the two Teuton capitals. Ona
sac or the other must back down
tnat much seems inevitable.
IL De true that Count Czernin has
S1aS as foreign minister. there In no
1919 1u oipiomatic quarters here that
the German annexationists baus ... ia
OUT Czernfn was the first Euronssn
statesman to endorse .bs pus,i.a
IormuIa OF mo annexations or ia.
oe1nhilies, and he has again .ra
again re~endorsed II, In Vienna p~xs@
I'M and al Brest Litovsk.
Ane erect OF his resignation rv,,,
nave upon Gerrnan political ur. -
eSpected to serve as a barometer -
s,a strength. If the reich
test g. iaJority takes 1t without pro-
tnat the German 'sbloc'' he. $50
Drought under the annexa,ion,ssa 49,
sway. e@ationisss
r. Look for Uprising.
Az the Hapsburg empire ,xinudn~,
itself the effect of Count czernin..
fail cannot be estimated. Those who
know conditions there best look fosr
a real rising of the masses against The
crown. not because of the fall Of the
man but of the whole conct1tsfnry
policy he personified. Faced by -
alternative OF breaking with Berlin Or
with his people. the young monarch
40 NApGSlGo 10 sue Will Inc t8ILpI. Z
Austria -Hungarys detection freus
fore no longer considered an impcs~
sibtlity by experts here.
Rome advices today indeed fore
Swallowed strong Austrian stand
against the junkers. I'VE are fac
ing" says the Corriere D'Italia, -
true Austrian pronouncement against
Ludendorff. Hoffman and German i'm
perlaliszn." (Hoffman Is the German
general who at Brest Litovsk ak
pounded the might is right princi-
pie to the accompaniment of fists
banging on the green tabie")
Primed for Revolution.
Tonight 1t seemed that the people
of the Hapsburg empire were prtneA
fer q plunge into the kind of rcvolu%
ton that Is still shaking Russia: that
thus primed. they we're fixing detbr-
mined eyes at Brest IAtovsk, waiting
for the signal break up of tbs
peace parleys to mean the go"
Thus far the demonstrations and
riots have been singularly devoid OF
bloodshed. For the present. arxl-
sorted to. Leaders of the peace
movement have issued manifesto
demanding that territorial demands
OF the pro-Germans" be not allowed I
to Illustrate peace with Russia. as
Budapest. the Hungarian cAp91A1. r.
reported among the cities at116keQ
worst by the movement. Thirty-ono
separate strike meetings were hald
there yesterday.
Craccw Under Martial law.
Cracow. In Galicia. IL virtually m.
der martial law. all public GATHERINGS
being forbidden and no oua ba1Ag
allowed on the street after : oscleok
In the evening.
At Gratis. the Et. Yrian capital a. i
condition IL 80 serious that the mavuR
was unable TO respond t. thu 9n1n
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