REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN AUSTRIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 5

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN AUSTRIA.

PLANS FOR NEW STATES

"government passivity

(Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association:

London, Oct. 12.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Milan correspondent says -that revolutionary eh nn <:es are quietly occurring in Aus-tria-Hungary and the Governments look on passively.

Various parties formed' committees who apparently work in the most com-

CABLE NEWS.

[Pkess Association—Coptkioht.]

plete harmony. The > committees propose four independent States, including Czecho-Slovak, Jugq-Slav", and German. All parties concur in the plan in principle. 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 Czechoslovaks and Jugo-Slavs declare their intention of proclaiming sovereignty first and then arranging boundaries with their neighbours, in the hope that the Peace Conference will ratify the decisions.

The German deputies have been summoned to a German convocation to safeguard German nationalist aims. Every party ignores the Reichsrath The "Daily News'" Zurich correspondent says: It may he definitely asserted that Austria-Hungary made the last peace offer in conjunction with Germany. If peace does not result quickly it will offer a, separate unconditional peace. I can state definitely that Germany knows that her ally is out of the war militarily, and is hurrying to destruction. Only immediate peace can avert the Empire's catastrophic end. The correspondent confirms the report of negotiations for dissolution of the Empire into autonomous States, and adds that the Emperor will shortly proclaim a Jugo-Slav kingdom.