Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-05
Austria

three years been predlctlng the collapse or Austria have at last been justified It re- quired long time, and pressure from both within and without to bring the dual mon- archy to her knees. Twice before she would have fallen but for aid from Prus- sia, but when the allied drive on Austria started few days ago Prussia could not send man or gun from her own flaming and broken battle line and the inevitable came to pass. While the conditions of the surrender were not known at the time, this little monograph is being written, and the actual conditions of her internal affairs are in state of uncertainty bordering on an- archy and chaos, it is almost certain that the house of Hapsburg will soon pass and that this ancient monarchy will be split up into several independent states, or rather, nations. No longer shall the tail of 27 per cent German population and Is per cent Magyar wag the dog of 57 per cent Slavic population of these peoples The most and the worst patched empire in all the history of the world is now dissolving before our eyes after 700 years of power, outrage, duplicity and oppression. The house of Hapsburg, as old as the empire, Is passing with the monarchy. These events are epochal; they are also beneficial to man kind Perfidous Austria had passed from a by-word into a proverb centuries ago. She lost every war she ever waged and yet gained and held by treachery and dupEcity and marriage and deceit and promises that were never fulfilled the lands and peoples that comprise her domains. The Slavic element of the empire, comprising that y per cent of the dog that has always been wagged by the tail, Is composed of Czecho- Slovaks, (Bohemians, Poles, Ruthenians, Czechs) and the Jugo-Slavs Serbs, Greats, Bosnians, Slovenes, Morlaks) have been quick to take advantage of the military de- feats and famine and economic and indus trial ruin that dragged Austria to her doom, and have already organized their own states and have been recognized by the great allied powers.
 Austria, at the command of her master, Berlin, started the great war by making de mands upon Serbia that amounted to serf- dom. She placed a great army in the field and contributed at least half of the heavy artillery to the German war cause. She fought bravely at first, and with much spir- it. But Russia would have destroyed her in the second year of the war but for Ger man aid She never recovered from the terrible battle of Galicia, and her collapse has been predicted daily since that com paign. But she came back last fall and aided by German troops and guns and mili- tary skill and intrigue, drove the Italians from her back door clear to the gates of Venice, and Italy was only saved by a hair breadth. But this was the last flicker of the failing flame Her internal affairs went from bad to worse and strikes riots. mismanagement, famine, anarchy and se- dition walked hand in hand through her fields and cities until, when the allies struck at last with full force under unified com mand, she fell with scarcely the semblance of real struggle. She was shell without and rotten within clear to the core.
 Austria is Teutonic and German through and through, but lacking German thorough ness and sturdiness in time of stress.
 That the loss of this ally with her fifty millions of people and her protection from the east side will result in the complete and sure defeat of Germany goes without say ing. But the loss comes at the beginning of winter and cannot be felt. by Germany in military way direct, until the spring campaign opens. But the surrender of Aus tria means a short campaign in the spring if Germany elects to fight on An allied army of at least a million, and probably two million, will strike at Berlin, from the