GERMAN PRESS ATTACK ON AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 311, 20 September 1918, Page 5

GERMAN PRESS ATTACK ON AUSTRIA

DEMAND FOR ACTION AGAINST TF CZECHOSLOVAKS (Roe. September 19, 7.45 p.m.)" Amsterdam, September 18. An article iu the "Westfaliche Zeitung" bitterly complains of the impotence of tlio Austio-Hungarian Government to stem the rising tide of tlio Czecho-Slovak demands, aiid gives illuminating glimpses of tbo internal situation in Austria. Tbo article alleges ' that the Czechs in Bohemia are "openly and haughtily pursuing plans for tbo establishment of an independent Czech State, and thut sinco the British and American Governments recognised the Czechs' independence this agitation has risen to unprecedented heights'Aiid, proceeds with such impudence that the Austrian Government dares iiot' r tako action against these- traitors." The paper declares that tlio traitors frankly say that the Czech State is only a. question of weeks or months. It also declares that Austria's laisseEfairo policy is causing treasonable movements to show openly in tbo Dual Monarchy's other Slav' territories, and concludes by drawing attention to tho rumours, "becoming ever more definite, that Austria-Hungary will bo federalised, in connection with which, the. cnly explanation is that Vienna iiq, longer is capable of'stopping the.'.separatist tendencies of the Slav races."—Router,