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Show PANIC RULES IN AUSTRIAN EMPIRE Bankrupt Country in State of Desperate Madness and Fear. ARMIES ARE MUTINOUS Vienna Menaced by Famine, Prices Rising Even Berlin Losing Some Optimism. London. Sept 9, 4:42 a. m The correspondent of the Daily Mall n Milan who has lately been In Vienna draws a gloomy picture of that em-' pi re. He says "Panic rules in Austria. The great unwieldy and bankrupt empire, drag ged reluctantly at the heels of Ger-! many, is In a state of desperate mad-( nesa and ear Her armies, hall hearted at first and now openly mutinous, mu-tinous, am beaten back at every point by the Russians Mixed Companies Disastrous. "Tinj policy of mixing in each company com-pany men of the different races which compose the empire has had the result re-sult that there is now no Ksprlt do Corps in the army The men were rlri i n Into trains at the point of the bayonet and scores were shot by their olt'icers to terroriM tlu-ii fellows iuto obedience. "While the Russian avalancbe, drives on, Bosnia is in open revolt, Trieste paralyzed b fear of an at-1 t.,k troin sea. Austria is bankrupt,; trade is at a standstill and thousands of business men are ruined by a war v hit h they hate Vienna Menaced by Famine. "While the harvest remains ungath-1 ered Vienna is menaced by a famine and prices are steadily rising. In resentment, the popular anger has turned against the foreigner and Serbs have been torn to pieces In the street:. Two Russian newspaper correspondents were shot by the police po-lice and five foreign journalists are in prison. Tn utter fear the government has I in to fortify Vienna, and arrange-in. arrange-in. hi- have been made to flood large traits of low lying land around the cltj Riots have occurred in many t. wns and to the terrors of the ( ,)S BUCK and the Serb Will be added those of revolution and famine." Berlin Losing Optimism. Even Berlin s. ems to have lost something of its prevailing optimism it confesses t the turning of anxious eyei in the direction of the ally in Calicla. During the first few weeks oi the war. Germany and Austria virtually dictated the direction of the campaigns along the Russian border, because ol the Inadequacy of Russian railroad and other transport. But this situation has been radically changed by the Russian successes In Galicla, Russia now appears to be assuming assum-ing the offensive in Kast Prussia. She has thrown 2,080,000 men along the border. This action is regarded here as a menac. agalnsl tbe heart of Germanv. which cannot remain unanswered. unan-swered. Hence the stories of the movements of Herman veterans Tom the western war area to the eastern fni--tan frontier arc generally considered con-sidered credible |