Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-16
Special Cable to Euenine Public Led,

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Amsterdam, oct. is.
There can no more be doubt about
II: The outline Of the new Austria
begins to be everywhere visible among
the ruins SO declares the Berlin
Iokal Anzeiger In dealing with that
ihunderous voice Of great Slavdom
which will stretch itself from Dantzic
TO the Adriatic Sea"
certainly there can be no doubt about
II the. ramshackle empire is in the
throes of a new birth. and what one or
TWO German papers during the last few
months have endeavored to point out to
the German public. fed on official dec
larations that the Dual Monarchy is true
to the German alliance. and that Aus
tria Hungary would weather the storm
aroused by suppressed aud oppressed
nationaiuies. is now admitted TO be
tact Old Austria exists no longer.
From all quarters come signs of great
approaching disruption, of the creation
not of new Austria actually. but OF
new SlaN States. free Of the yoke OF
Vienna. Budapest. and Berlin.
What the Government and ruling
powers will do is not yet clear; but
scheme is said to have been worked out
by Count silva Tarouca Minister "f
Agriculture. for the formation OF new
Austria on the basis of the right tf
self-determination. How far any such
scheme win meet conditions remains 10
be seen. but there are many Indications
that the various nationalitics will take
matters in their own hands.
Offer Comes Too Late
NJ Agram a conference Of southern
Slav representatives has been held and
= national council OF SloVenes, Croats
and Serbs has been formed, the three
kindred peoples of the future kingdom
Of Jugo-Savia. This is a practical act
which follows up the great speech by the
Slovcne leader Dr Koroschec. in which
he rejected the offer of autonomy at the
hands of the fIapsburgs, and declared:
Baron Won HussarcN comes too late.
Full freedom or death. There is no
power on earth now which can separate
the Slovenese from the Croats and
Serbs nor is there any force on earth
which can divide the SloVenes from the
Croats and Serbs on the other side Of
the frontier"
The Czech Deputy Zahradmik has told
the Austrian Parliament that he has
spoken for the last time in that assem-
bly,. lie added that the Czechs had
come to an agreement with the Ger
mans. but he said it was only in
Prague. There will he no German alli-
anCe with the new Sav States. An
other prominent Czech deputy. Nloffac,
declared in a speech at Prague the other
day:
our independence is no more merely
an ideal II has become a reality"
NO one can now succeed in breaking
down Czech unity" declared Stribrny on
the same occasion.
The action Of the Polish regency coun-
Gil has reused tremendous enthusiasm
throughout Austria.
God protect unit cd. independent Po-
land :" cried Deputy German in the Aus
trian lower house, in which strong de-
mands were put forward for the release
of Pilsudski, the darling and hero of the
Polish nation, who is imprisoned in the
German fortress of Magdeburg.
Iaud Idea Of Great Poland
All Sav races have wired their en-
thusastic congratulations to the Warsaw
regency, which the Gcrmans had been
fondly thinking was their humble in
strument, upon its drastic step IN pro-
claiming the ideal Of Il great Poland. be-
hind which, it is whispered. Count
Burian and Count Czernin stand
Meanwhile the SalZburg economic con-
ference between the representatives Of
the Central Empires has been broken up.
and the trend of events has forced all
7 the German parties in Austria TO unite
and put forward q demand for that unity
and independence for themselves which
, the Slav races insist on.
| The Polish Regency's action, says the