Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — AUSTRIA WANTS TO QUIT WAR [ARTICLE]

AUSTRIA WANTS TO QUIT WAR

Vienna Is in Turmoil and Slavic Populations Demand Reorganization of Dual Monarchy. Amsterdam. April 19. —The Tele-’ graaf reports that tlig German Socialist party in Austria has decided that work shall be stopped May 1 throughout the country and that demonstrations in favor of peace shall be hold. •Washington, April 19.—The political situation in Austria-Hungary remains extremely delicate, according to an official dispatch from Switzerland, summarizing reports from Budapest and comment in Austrian and German newspapers. Austria, the report said, is coming to the greatest difficulties; security no longer exists and the situation ‘is capable of any possibility.” Marked discontent reigns in Vienna, according to the dispatch,- while speeches delivered in parliament by the Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and Poles inspire hatred of Germany and demand reorganization of Austria-Hungary. Even the social democrats are said to have proclaimed in the Austrian chamber of deputies that the monarchy is not directly interested in the struggle of Germany against Great Britain, France qnd America.