Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-11-01
HUNGARY breaks
WITH AUSTRIA
Budapest Asserts independence,
snd Declares nenceforth Only
Personal Union With Vienna.
5EUTON COALITION WRECKED.
Proclanations by Czecho-Siovaks, II
lyrians and Euthenians Reported.
LIBERALIZATION Of Austria Into
Four 5tates Predicted.

London. The German-Austro-Hun
garian coalition that was to extend
Teutonic dominion through Mitteleu-
ropa eastward is now 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 lnde-
pendent state.
At meeting of the Hungarian par
lament proclamation was read de-
claring Hungary to be an independent
state, says dispatch from Berlin for
warded via Copenhagen.
Henceforth, the message adds, there
is to be only a personal union between
Austria and Hungary.
From other sources are received re-
ports that not only Hungary, but Bo-
nemia and the Croatians have declared
their independence.
The liberalization Of Austria Is fore
shadowed 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
o. a proclamation transforming Aus
trla into four states-namely, German,
Austrian, Czecho-Slovak, Illyrlan and
Ruthenlan, with common head, COM
mon representation abroad and COM
mon defense.
According to the Berlin Tageblatt's
Vienna correspondent, says the dis
patch from Amsterdam, 1t Is expected
the Austrian emperor will issue q
proclamation inviting the respective
races to prepare for the formation OF
federal states. The questions affecting
Eukowina, Rumania, Bosnia, HerZego-
vina 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 III
speech In the Hungarian diet and is
quoted rs having said:
Austria has organized herself on a
federal basis. We shall take our stand
on the basis of q personal union"
Dispatches from different sources
announce Czecho-Sloyak 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 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 prostrated for the
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President Wilson failed to state his at
titutie toward Austria in his CORE
SpunGeHce with Germany.
According to Il diplomatic authority
WHO is we'll acquainted with court af
fairs in Vienna, the young emperor's
coimtenauce remains spiritesS and
melancholy. Berlin'S peace efforts and
thr!r failure have so detected him that
he refuses to see anybody, only the
empress and his physician remaining
at his s'sle.
Iir refuses to attend functions until
his nind Is set at case concerning the
Presidents attitude toward his coun-
try. Il is said also that he was further
depressed by the revolt at Prague and
BY the general strikes In Bohemia.