CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 21 May 1917, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA.

TERRIBLE DISTRESS

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR INTER-

VIEWED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

New York, May 19. Mr Penfield lias returned from Vienna, The Ambassador, interviewed by the "New York Times," said that the disti-ess in Austria was terrible, but

It is eonvmc-ed that the defeat of Russia and her allies would not only be a calamity, but would postpone World-wide peace. It firmly believes tfcafc the Russian army will not suffer the Germans to destroy the Western Allies and then throw themselves on Russia ' ' *

they must not assume that tEe.country was- at the end of its resources. The masses knew nothing of events in the outer world. They were fed with newspaper lies about the-strength of the

:• The Minister oF War lias'issued tho following order to the armies: "The country is endangered, and everyone must do his share in defending it; Ncr requests for acceptance of resignations