The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-10-24
HUNGARY BREAKS
With AUSTRIA
Budapest Asserts independence,
and Declares Iienceforth Only
Personal Union With Vienna.
TEUTON COALITION WRECKED.
ProcIamations by Czecho-SIovaks, II
Iyrians and Ruthenlans Reported.
liberalization of Austria Into
Four States Predicted.

London. - The German-Austro-Hu
garian coalition that was to extend
Teutonic dominion through Mltteleu-
ropa eastward is now q mass of wreck
age. The dual monarchy, in a frenzied
effort to meet the requirements pre-
liminary to obtaining peace, has split
up, Hungary declaring itself an indie
pendent state.
At a meeting of the Hungarian par
Lament a proclamation was read de-
claring Hungary to be an independent
state, says a dispatch from Berlin for
warded via Copenhagen.
Henceforth, the message adds, there
is to be only personal union between
Austria and Hungary.
From other sources are received re-
| ports that not only Hungary, but Bo-
hemia and the Croatians have declared
their independence.
The liberalization of Austria is fore
| Swallowed in Vienna dispatches receiv-
ed through Reuters Amsterdam CORE
spondent. The dispatches declare
| Baron Won Hussarek, the Austrian pre-
mier, has summoned q conference of
the party leaders 10 discuss the issuing
of a proclamation transforming Aus
| tria into four states-namely, German,
Austrian, CZecho Slovak, nlyrian and
| PCthenian, with common head, COM
mon representation abroad and COM
mon defense
According to the Berlin Tageblatts
| Vienna correspondent, says the dis
| patch from Amsterdam, it is expected
the Austrian emperor will issue a
| proclamation inviting the respective
races to prepare for the formation Of
federal states. The questions affecting
| Bukowina, Rumania, Bosnia, Herzego-
VIVA and Poland, the dispatch adds,
will be left for further arrangement
with the nations concerned The fed
eral states will be under the Hapsburg
scepter.
DR.. Alexander Wekerle the Hun
! garian premier, says the Amsterdam
| dispatch, referred to the matter in a
speech in the Hungarian diet and is
| quoted as having said
austria has organized herself on
federal basis We shall take our stand
on the basis Of personal union
Dispatches from different sources
announce Czecho-Slovak republic has
been proclaimed at Prague. Follow
ing open revolt, the independence of
Poland has been proclaimed at War
| saw, while Croatia intends to 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 a grave military
| disaster, 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 SO 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 to see anybody, only the
empress and his physician remaining
at his side.
He refuses to attend functions until