The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-09
AUSTRIA NEEDS
ALLIED TROOPS
East Area Former Empire
Engaged in Futile Struggle
Costing Many Lives.
COAL FAMINE MENACES
Situation in Vienna More
Grave-Shadow Of Boil
shevism Hovers.

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(By j. M. Jeffries.)
| Vienna, Dec. 4.-(Delayed.)--A
detachments are sorely needed in the
eastern portions OF the former Aus
trian empire where the various pop
ulations are engaged in a futile
struggle which Is costing human lives
for the possession of towns and coun-
tryside In the areas of debatable ma
tionality.
There was a typical useless ARRAY
yesterday close to Marckegg near
| Pressburg. The Czechs occupied the
| bridge over the March and the Hun
garians attacked them. A train hap
pened to arrive with returning de-
| tachmcnts from Mackenzen's army.
who Joined the Hungarians, using
machine guns and hand grenades.
from Marckegg detachment of Ger
| mans and Austrian troops hurried up.
F, They also Joined the Hungarians and
| forced the Czechs to retire.
| All this bloodshed probably would
haze been stopped by the presence
os q few ~ iers, ....l 4. !, :
The ancient kingdom OF Poland Is
at the mercy of the Ruthenians. who
are contemplating new military ac-
tion for the encircling and starving
out of Lemberg and other Polish
towns. Between the Poles themselves
and Czechs there are germs of dis
cord arising over mining possessions
and the oil supply. In addition to
the larger disputes between the
states, punitive states and pseudo
states, there has arisen a craze for
autodetermination which. II allowed
to continue, will lead to chaos. Com
munities are declaring everywhere
that they are speech islands: that
is. they have a different tongue from
those around them, and therefore
they must have new self-gOverning
institutions.
Maps in support of these speech
islands" are appearing everywhere.
These maps are being prepared in
great numbers and the peace con-
ference will be Uttered deep with
them.
Meantime the disorder and disar-
ray are inconceivable. Those who
are trying to wind up the Austrian
empire so that new republics may be
made at least to know where they
begin and what they own are making
insufficient headway with their task.
On the eastern horizon there con-
tinually hovers the shadow OF boil
shevism.
Dr.. Klein at Head.
Another of my Lemberg documents
is wireless appeal sent by the So
called workmen's and soldiers coun-
Gil in Moscow. which is being care
fully circulated by the Ruthenian
forces that tried to master Lemberg.
The Austro- German republic will
be represented at the peace confer
ence by mission whose head will be
DR.. Franz Klein. well-known writer
on legal questions. He maintains
that II free trade Is not adopted
among all the new states the Aus
trian empire will be dissolved and
there will be ruin all around. DR..
Klein makes general appeal for the
Germans, Austrians and Bohemians
to allow those wealthy manufacture
ing portions of Bohemia which |
the former claim as German to join |
the German Austrian states. Other
wise, he says, 1--WE shall become a |
mountain state with the city of vi |
emma in its midst" Such a state |
is a physical impossibility.
Telegrams from Vienna announce |
the arrival at Inst of two trains con-
taining British troops. Inst Is thirty |
miles west of Innsbruck.
Coal Famine Menaees.
The situation In Vienna is growing |
coal famine. The last stores of coal |
for public use in this city are draw
ing to an end. and II, owing to lack
OF coal. Vienna goes to darkness and,
through inability to keep up train
service, Is cut off from the rest Of |
Europe, the maintenance of order be-
comes problematic.@