RUSSIA TO SECURE FREEDOM OF SLAVS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 8

RUSSIA TO SECURE FREEDOM OF SLAVS.

AUSTRIA TO BE DEPRIVED OP GALICIA.

MUST ALSO CEDE TRIESTE AND TRENTIN TO ITALY.

Petrograd, September 21

The IVtrograd Gazette says that before peace is proclaimed Russia must secure the freedom of the Slavs from the foreign yoke and end the nightmare of German militarism. This wiil involve the dissolution of the Hapsbnrg monarchy and the abolition of Prussian hegemony. Austria must be deprived of Galicia and Slav territory, and must also code Trieste and the Trentin to Italy, and Transylvania and part of Bukovina to Roumania.

Trieste is situated at the north-eastern angle of the Adriatic Sea. and is the principal seaport of Austria, It is 367 miles south-west of Vienna by rail, and three-quarters of its population are Italians.

Trentin is part of Tyrol, in Austria, and adjoins Venetia and Lombardy. It is very fertile and well cultivated country.

Transylvania occupies the extreme eastern portion of the kingdom of Hungary. It is bounded by Hungary proper on the west and north, by Bukovina on the north-east and Roumania on the east and south.

Bukovina is a duchy and crown land of Austria, which is bounded on the north by Russia and Roumania, on the south by Roumania, on the west by Transylvania and Hungary and on the north by Galicia. It was originally part of Moldavia, bat in 1777 was ceded to Austria.