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Show ROYALTY IS HIT " BY FOODFAMINE Former Emperor Karl and Family Suffering Real Privations. VIENNA, via Geneva. Monday. Sow IS. i By the Associated Press.) The situa: tion in Vienna appears to he that there Is more talk than disorder, with urgent need fur bieadj especially for the poor of Austria. Aus-tria. The Associated Press correspondent v.as accompanied to Vienna by one French and one British army officer. Farmer Emperor Charles, who has retired to his castle at Eekartsau, it is asserted by the socialist Arbeiter Zeitung, is living on the shortest rations and possibly Qiay he starving' with his wife and family. The former royal family has been unable to obtain meat, miik and bread in the neighboring neigh-boring village, or even to have its wash-in? wash-in? done. They have been obliged to end away almost all their fifty servants. Some disorders have occurred in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, accord -ins to reports received here, a the result ofan attempt 'to induct the former soldiers sol-diers into a national guard. There also are reports that Jews have been assassinated assassi-nated in Bohemia. Wherever the correspondent passed on bis way to Vienna, he encountered no difficulties and he saw no disorders except ex-cept along the railway lines. At stations here and there the troops returned from the Italian front resisted when the local police tried to disarm them. Sometimes there was disorder when the soldiers refused re-fused to give up plunder stolen from the army stores and a few men were killed. ' An "order was issued today tiiat soldiers found In possession of such property will be shot unless they surrender It before November 20. The formation of a new republic here apparently has been an easy task. Jf is now merely a question of holding the people peo-ple together until a stable government can be established. However, the freest possible political discussions are permitted. per-mitted. There has been little bloodshed in Vienna. Order is being maintained bv Field Marshal AJnlf von Boog. who has reorganized the old police force. A national na-tional army' militia also has been formed,' lite soldiers wearing the new colors of red, white and red, instead of the black and yellow of the empire. In each municipal mu-nicipal district there is a force of guards who wear the socialistic red brassards. It is declared that when the empire hhs overturned in the last dnvs of October Octo-ber there was no violence in Vienna. One of the most notahie political changes has been the granting of equal franchise to women. In the republic all the forms of the old empire have been done away with. Xo passports are required re-quired to travei, but one must have a resident permit. There is no censorship of the press. When the correspondent went to obtain permission to send telegrams abroad. Dr. Otto Bauer, the foreign secretary and a Socialist, cave his consent on the spot. Will order prevail in the new German-Austrian German-Austrian republic, of which Vienna is a't once the wheel and d.'nc hub, or will there be an outhrenk of Bolshevism?1' This question is on every tongue. The air is full of rumors printed by newsoauera or spiead about by the thousands of soldiers sol-diers traveling to and fro. On the streets one hears reports of revolution in France, that Italy Is to be made a republic and that American and allied troops are occupying Austrian cities here and there. |