ALLIES AND AUSTRIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 165, 10 July 1918, Page 2

ALLIES AND AUSTRIA.

NO TIME FOR WAVERING. LO-NDON,- June 24. It; is felt that the undoubted skill, rapidity, and valour-of the Italians are nbt- r enough ti>. the Austrian dcci - siori to retreat. The internal unrest in the dual monarchy has probably affected the troops, though no proof of this was found in- the desperate bravery with which the Austrians : fought. ~ Nevertheless, the: news which is leakingiCut of 'Austria-Hungary shows that the conditions there.are had' enough to have influenced a decision by the High Command that .will' cause gnashing of teeth in. Berlin. ; y. The newspapers in London have thfe occasion '-: to emphasies the necessity for the Allies not to "conclude a separate, peace with the Hapsburgs, but to .take a firm and unequivocal stand on the side. of. the Ansfcro-Hnngarian Slavs. The Daily Chronicle calls on Mr Lloyd George and'M. Oemenceau to go boldly beyond the obscure formula of the Ver-sailles-Conference with,reference, to tinsubject, arid to sound out. clearly to all the oppressed Hapsburg people the note of insurrection and■ .resurrection'.