Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — MUTINY IN AUSTRIA [ARTICLE]

MUTINY IN AUSTRIA

SOCIALIST PARTY INDORSES PRESIDENT WILSON’S STAND. Emperor Warns Leaders of Parliament of Martial Law if Demand Is •' Refused. Rome, Feb. 22. —Three Slavs who e— aped from Cattaro and gave themselves up to the allies say that the Austrian fleet at Cattaro has mutinied and that the disaffection has spread to Pola, Fiume, an dot her Austrian ports. The informants say that discontent is rife through the Austrian empire. Zurich. Feb. 22. —Socialist members of the Austrian parliament passed a resolution calling tipon the the government to adopt the principles enunciate*! by President Wilson as the basis for a general peace and asking that direct negotiations be begun as soon as possible. They have convoked massmeetings to support their demand. The Austrian emperor has warned the leaders of the different parliamentary parties that he will prorogue the reichmth and govern the country by martial law if a majority is not secured for the provisional budget. Wild scenes in the reichsrath on 'Tuesday on the occasion of Premier von Seydler’s speech was described in a -Vienna dispatch to the Berlin Vos~is. he Zeitung. The Czechs and Slavs at one point ostentatiously quitted the ! house arid during the greater part of 'the [.vernier’s speech maintained a cori--1 rinnous din. There were shouts of ‘•Lies! Treachery I* Tell them that in , Berlin I” and similar expressions. The premier was audible only to , those nearest to him. Czech protests are loud against the advance of the German troops in Rus- ' sia. ■ The Poles are extremely dissatisfied ■ with the Austrian government and ' demand that the Ukrainian frontier : spall be fixed at the River Bug and i that Count Czernin. Austro-Hungarian I foreign minister, shall be dismissed.