Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-29
INTERESTING NEWS
ESCAPES TEUTON'S
RIGID CENSORSHIP
Reported That Kaiser Was In
suited on Streets of Vienna
and That an Open Revolt
Occurred in Budapest

LONDON, Jan. 26.-Two interesting
reports seeped through the iron-ciad
German censorship tonight.
One was that Kaiser wilhelm had
been openly insulted on the streets OF
Vienna"
The second was that there was
revolutionary organization and open re-
volt in Budapest on January 49,
The first fact was CARRIED in the tex
of a speech delivered by Philip ScheRie-
marn before the main committee of the
reichstag on Thursday, Immediately
after Chancellor Hertling had made his
reply to President Wilson and Premier
Lloyd George. He bitterly assailed the
German junkers and militarists.
The second fact was in a dispatch
printed in the Berlin Tageblatt.
Soldiers Surround City
The Amsterdam cables relating these
| facts was a follows:
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 2e.-On Janu-
airy Is, a revolutionary organiza-
ton was operating in Budapest and
the governmental forces feared an
attack by massed strikers. accord
ing ros delayed copy of the Berlin
TaSeblatt, received here late to-
day.
The dispatch asserted:
Soldiers and machine guns on
January IS surrounded the irner
city of Budapest and occupied the
bridges between Buda and Pest,
preventing the masSed strikers from
entering, the inner city. Thirty. rIem-
bers of a revolutionary organization
forming council of laborers, SOL
diers and students were arrested"
Text of the speech delivered re-
fore the main committee of the
reichstas, by Philip Scheioemann,
German majority socialist leader.
showed these passages:
| Suppose we beat England and
France. Would that mean peace?
No: we must stiI beat America"
Continuing, Schneidemann recalled
| the fact that the kaiser had been
openly insulted in the streets Of
Vienna and continued:
! 1.-THE conservatives demand that
Germany be freed from Austria.
They Will manage to make us lose
| our last friend
Honorable and complete rein
! statement of Belgium is our duty.
| Let us try to save the world from
| new bloodshed in the spring.
The feeling of Our people is most
serious If you allow the Russian
appoint the hopes Of those in the
west, what then, If not a catastro-
phe?"
Facts May BE Worse
| Judging from Germany's previous
course, the very fact that her censor
ship permitted some hint of an actual
revolution in Hungary to pass outside
| her borders would seem to indicate that
the actual facts of the case must be
much worse than the details given.
| No previous report has ever leaked
out of Germany that Kaiser Wilhelm
was Openly insulted on the streets Of
Vienna" When the incident recalled
| by Scheidemann occurred was not stat
ed. No mention has been made of any
visit to Vienna by the German war lord
during the last month or more.
OF almost equal significance as indi-
eating a new policy of bold attack
against the junkers, the pan-Germans
and the aristocrats as a whole, is the
fact that Scheidemann actually dared
| to make such a statement in speech,
and that newspapers printed it. The
medieval conception of lese majestic has
hitherfore ruled in Germany and there
have been few persons willing to risk
| its punishment by making statements
which would show the German emper-
or as having other than complete sup
port of all Teutonic peoples.
scheidemann's Actions
The fact that Scheidemann was the
person to make such a statement, and
so boldly to criticise the pan-Germans
as the above Amsterdam dispatch indi-
Gates, is likewise significant. Hereto
fore Scheidemann has been q thick and
thin supporter of the government.
Scheidemann was the governments
trusted agent in the German scheme
last summer to-work up German con-
trolled pseudo-socfaIist Peace confer
ence" at Stockholm. He was chairman
of a reichstag committee which last
fall was entrusted with the task of
formulating suggestions for electoral
reform He was evidently regarded by
the kaiser and his militarist coterie as
safe and sound"