REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 October 1918, Page 5

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY

EMPIRE BEING SPLIT UP ON RACIAL LINES. (Received 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. The "Daily Telegraph's" Milan correspondent says that revolutionary changes are quietly occurring, and the Austro-Hungarian Governments look on passively. The various parties have formed committees, who apparently work in most complete harmony. The committees propose four independent States, including Ozecho-Slovak, Jugoslav and German. All parties concur in the plan in principle, and the discussions relate to details. The Austrian Socialists who are conducting the discussions for the German State propose to adopt the present boundaries of Austria. The Czecho-Slovaks and Jugoslavs declare thedr intention of proclaiming sovereignty first, then arranging boundaries with their neighbours in the hope that the peace conference will ratify the decisions. German deputies have summoned a German convocation to safeguard German nationalist aims. Every party ignores the Reichsrath.

The ''Daily News" Zurich correspondent says that it may be definitely asserted that Austro-llungary hae made its last peace offer in conjunction with Germany. If peace does not result quickly she will offer separate unconditional peace. He adds: "I can state definitely that Germany knows her ally is out of the war militarily and is hurrying to destruction. Only immediate peace can avert a castrophic end." The correspondent confirms the negotiations for the dissolution of the empire into autonomous States, and adds that the Emperor will shortly proclaim a Jugoslav kingdom.—-(A. and N.Z. Cable.)