The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-17
THE AUsrRo.HuNcARIAN wREcKAcE.


to the minor Huns There is not reason to doubt that
they will accept the terms laid down.
The Austro Hungarian empire has faded into the past
Vienna the gay city that queened it over 100000 Ger
mans, Magyars Czechs, Poles Sovenes, Roumanians
Croas Ruthenans, Italians and many other peoples is
standing gaunt and ragged begging dole of bread
from the nterallied food commission The allies
uay sustaining the life of the Austrian Huns in the in
term between and signed peace.
Austria now consists of 100000 Germans kept apart
from Germany proper by the fiat Of the allies and very
properly The old Austrian spirit is broken The rich
est portions of the empire have broken away to form
pubcs join home kingdoms or set up boshevsm, the
may be- The Magyars in the throes of dissolution
with conflicting reports which confuse rather than clari
fly the worlds information concerning them. One report
has that the Paris conference has invited Bella Kun the
red Paris to confer with them Another has that the
allied armies about to smash the Hungarian reds. In
sistent reports to the effect that the bg four"
still inclined to deal with Lenne and Kun, despite the i'm
pending breakdown of bolshevsm in the field Strong
financial interests known to be at work, attempting
W pIluBe DSIWeeH allies lHe
But public sentiment in the allied countries strongly OPP
posed to the boshevk and all their works. and is hardly
be apprchcnded that the allied leaders would be willing
fly in the face of this sentiment if there seemed
to be temporary advantages in dealing with the boshe
wiki in certain matters. Nevertheless the allied peoples
restive and will not be satisfied until Lenine Trotzky
md Bella Kun dead or behind stone walls
Poland, Roumania Czecho-Slovakia and Serbia, to say
nothing of Italy, the gamers by the downfall of the
Hapsburgs The German Ausrians and the Magyars will
De the gamers ALSO although these Huns and their
pces do not look upon the recent defeat anything blu
catastrophe Yet the Austrians were exploited by cor
upt and spendhrft auocracy and the Magyars tho
beasts Of burden for their junkers rapacous gang
IF coundrels who gladly conspred with the Prussian
TO assassnate Serbia and dominate Europe The worlt
well rid of them, and every raid by the Magyars agans
heir oppessors deserves the applause of free people
everywhere.
To Italy is due the credit for topping over the rotten
iapsburg autocracy and making the freedom of the
CzechoSovaks the Poles the South Savs and the Trans
1lvana Roumanians Italy received some help from tn,
lilies, but not much she should have received Onl,
one American regiment served the Italian 'front.' and al
The allied troops combined not equal to the numbe
If Italian troops in France Italy, confronted by the ap
FALLING effect of the Caporeto disaster in October 1917
her territory ravaged savagely ythe Croatan
rs France was ravaged by the Germans The devil
perpetrated to the scientific destruction OF
ru trees and the ensavement of women and worse VI
the hour of the armstce the Creations commanded b!
Jugosav field marshal and loyal to the last to the Haps
ourg flag fought the Italians and such Americans Brit
| ms and French as were on the front.
1t is small wonder that Italy now warns the allies tina
he Croats not to be trusted friends. Their sud
len passion for liberation does not harmonic with Their
ontented loyalty to the Hapsburgs They did not revolt
rs the Czochs and Roumanians and Poles did. They die
lot go to the Iaans the Russians and the other al
les but stuck to the aHpsburg colors to the last 1t
lot their fault that the Hun and Hapsburg autocraces are
rot masters of Italy and France
Justice will be DONE even to them for the peace that
ocming will not be peace without justice Yet justice
must also be done to the allies every of them The
NAMED nations, like Belgium Serbia France and Italy
deserve first consideration, before justice to Tho
Iuns and Magyars and Croatians These assaled ant
rcken nations must be made safe the world itself will
not be safe.
The allied powers must fasten upon the German Aus
TRANS and the Magyars and punitive peace Italy
must have her boundaries and her territory and her PEG
de Serbia must be made safe against the Huns and the
Magyar Roumania and Poland must be strengthened at
he enemy's expense.-Washington Post