Show U 19 No nUl 20 OJ G CABINET SPLIT PLIT IS RUMOR RUM R AS PRESIDENT I k UPHOLDS ARFIELD TIE UP F INDUSTRIES t I fA f U SIR IA I i BY TIDE I OF SEDITION Serious Outbreaks Caused by Prolongation of Peace Parleys Reducing of Bread i Ration and Police Policy 1 fl f t. t FOOD 7 SHOPS SHOPS' r RIOTERS LOOTED BY R RIOTERS Railroad Passenger Traffic Reduced 60 Per Cent in Germany to Facilitate the I Troop Transfers to West r est estI L ONDON Jan 18 15 Serious strikes accompanied by rioting have lave taken place in Vienna and other cities it eg throughout Austria according t to o news agency telegrams from Zurich and other points in Switzer Switzer- land and The troubles it is asserted are due to o the prolongation of the peace E negotiations at Brest L Brest the continuation of the reduced bread rations ra ra- one half t one half the former allotment allot allot- 1 ment and ment-and and police once measures against meetings of the workers A peace demon demonstration at Vienna Tuesday night ended In a riot during which according to an Exchange Telegraph Tele Tele- Telegraph graph dispatch food tood shops were looted A wireless s press dispatch from Berne says rays strikes broke out Monday In factories factories fac fac- tories In Vienna Gratz Brunn Ilius Linz hand and Wiener th the tho walkouts resulting re- re in rioting noUnS which necessitates I vigorous police pollee Action On Tuesday a the number of 01 strikers Increased and amI there i were ere nUm numerous roua conflicts with the police I Cabinet CrIMi n Reported Since Mince Wednesday the dispatches State no Austrian papers papel's have ha i reached cached Sw Sv Switzerland It appears that that the Austrian author author- authorities authorities Sties are anxious regarding the situation situation situation situa situa- tion at nt Prague Bohemia as the civil governor has been be n replaced b by a a. military mill mili tar tary governor Jo The Vienna correspondent of or The Munich says ays that reports of ot an Austrian cabinet crisis are well Dr the premier is opposed n not t only b by bythe th the Czechs and th the south couth Slavs M it is Js asserted but also ahw b by the socialists who lUte like the re rest t are chafing under tho food difficulties while the German deputies arc hostile owing to lo the premiers premier's alleged weak attitude toward the Cz Czechs and south Slavs fJ The political situation in Germany German and md the tho rotations relations with Russia Rusala continue to be agitated in n the German press An Au article quoted from Gel German man newspapers newspapers news news- papers received recel b by Wo way of Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land gives I e an idea o of the trend of feeling The r r optimism optimism opt warns its Ill readers a against undue in lu regard to the tho negotiations with tho the Russians whom it accuses of or to hinder the tile for their own Interests Oppose Plant The Th of Mannheim a so- so paper says 81 that serious popular demonstrations tl mon against t time the German annexation an an- policy polley occurred at Budapest and Aus- Aus land and other towns In Hungary Hung an after Chancellor Count Counton von on Hertling Hert Hert- ling made his lids statement in the reichstag reich reich- s 11 stag I The Deutsche Ta es ung pub- pub agricultural reports showing I that In consequence e or of the shortage c cot t ot of fodder the time deadweight of cattler cattle r sent Kent to tho the Berlin market 1 ItS is only one one- J. J half tho the normal A telegram ram from Rotterdam says sars Continued rage Page Page 2 Z i I i I AUSTRIA SWEPT BY FOOD ROT RIOTS Continued From Pa Page c 1 1 that Cleat beginning today nil all p passenger uN nger traffic In Germany Is reduced 60 GO per cent Correspondent sending the reports say that there l levery If II every reason to believe that transfer trans transfer fer of or troops to the western fronIs fron Is the real reason renson adding tha thai It Is reported that the troops are t tc c be moved mOed suddenly for tor concentrated concentrate d offensive The Thc Times publishes a long report attributed to a neutral who has madan mad made madean e an extended eta sta stay In Ge Germany In ing Internal conditions Th Tin Thu writer re rc reiterates iterates that the effects of or food tood short short- ago e are arc severe The shortage of or c coal nl In Berlin i Is h s another source of or trouble Loop Long for Pen Pence ACt After r enumerating the difficulties s the correspondent writes Nothing but the iron grip of PrusSian Prussian sian sinn h restrains the nation natIo n from taking cakIng more pronounced ad u vl vances o 0 o 1 us its ts act nian u on j which Save ln-e ln yet ret been made rondo The Germans Germans Ger mans are longing for peace but the thc they Y f want pence peace with victor victory The They n nolon no o lon longer er bUBO their enemies as In th the B e early tins drys of oC the war ivar Doubtless the th c e of ot supplies has much to d do o with ti W change of oC mental attitude The of ot th the tho flesh has given give n wa way b b. b before tore the tile discipline of fasting This accounts account for foe very much In recent recen t developments of of German poll policy C Trou Trouble bie Feti re I In lu u Dispatches from Crom Petrograd Indicate e that ferment In the elt city Is II likely If 11 tho 0 assembly meets Large demonstrations demonstratIon s are being prepared by hy the tho alliance fo for forthe r the defense of ot the constituent assembly which is Issuing appeals to the people e In tho the streets and Is carrying on agitation agitation agitation tion In the military barracks and among the crews of oC the tue warships In Inthe Inthe inthe the Neva Ne The correspondent of oC the Dally Daily News Nes says trouble of or some kind Is almost certain The feeling among the soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers of ot the tho Petrograd garrison on a n PetI Petrograd Pet Pet- I dispatch to the Dally Daily Mall MaIl says sas Is becoming more divided and the government got gov cannot place full tuU reliance on them as It could a month ago Condition Conditions Condi Condi- tion of or life liCe In Petrograd as ns described b by various correspondents suggest est that the people are arc likely to seize an any op opportunity op- op to express their discontent Food is sometimes impossible and al always always al- al ways Was difficult to 0 procure says the lie Dall Dally Daily News' News correspondent who adds that Petrograd has hns forgotten the taste t of or milk though It Is possible now and then to obtain an Inferior grade of or butter but at 10 rubles a pound General Wounded General leader of one of the opposition factions Is III reported d to have been wounded In a fight between his forces and amI Bolshevik I at M. M Bronsky commissary for tor foreign trade tracIe says that a decree regulating tor foreign trade will be Issued shortly |