Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 4 | Austria Hit by Britain's Action

ItIIF lITRfiCTlI Recognition of Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks Strong Blow, the Daily Chronicle Says. Newspaper Believes All of Allies Soon Will Follow Thi3 Course. (New York Tlmes-Oilcano Tribune f:able. CopyrlKiit-) LONI'OX, Aii- Thli flhroni.-lc, commenting clitoririlly on tho niilit.-try and iml i t i.-til announcement announce-ment of lSrilain's recognition of the ('.colio Slovaks, assumes that Britain's allies take tin) same view of tlio case aid that their recognition will follow in doe course. It nays: "On the strictly political side, the step is an important commitment in thn direction of tho breaking up of Austria Hungary. Tho phrase is a somewhat some-what misleading one because it suggests sug-gests that some Austro-Hungarian unity naturally exists. This is not the ease, for the tio which hinds the Czechoslovaks to tho Hiipslmrtfs is one of external Gorman forco only. "If we leave that forco operative, Germany is not defeated, and the foundation foun-dation for her nggrossivo ambitions in Kuropo remains intact. If, on tho other hand, we remove it and tho Czechoslovaks obtain sol f-detormina-tion, thorn is no (iiestion of their remaining re-maining subject to tho Ilapsburg's dominion. do-minion. To'a man they have resolved to secodo from it and 'establish themselves them-selves as an independent Hlato. War Aim Sanctioned. "The British recognition formally sanctions that war aim, for it recognizes recog-nizes the Czecho Slovak national council coun-cil as 'thn present trustee for the future fu-ture Czocho-Slovak government.' " After pointing out that the allies have given similar indorsement to tho future independence of the men of Poland, Po-land, tho Chronicle proceeds: "What is needed to complete the policy exemplified in tho Polish and Czeeiio-Slovak cases is parallel reeog-' reeog-' nition of the Jugo-Slavs. Their case ' has for a long time presented some anomalous features, owing to their re ! lation to tho Serbs on one side and J their -disputes with tho Italians on the ' other. The former was successfully set-! set-! tied by negotiations with M. Passiteh, which resulted in tho pact of Corfu, j and the hitter has since been adjusted , at "Rome bv a compromise between the j Italian and Jugo-Slav claims, which is I one of the most hopeful developments j of the present year. j Would Aid Cause. j "Thero seems no valid reason why these results should not now be embodied em-bodied in an official recognition. The position of the allies, and, not least, of the Italians, would bo materially ! strengthened thereby, especially if the 'Italian government could sec its way by virtue of fine and unenforced generosity gen-erosity to tako the initiative in the matter. "These three nationalities Poles, Czecho slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, whose suppression by tho Germans and their 'Magyor henchmen is the basis of Germany's Ger-many's disproportionate power in Europe, Eu-rope, nre 'not small nations' in the most literal sense of the' term. The Poles are the next largest nation in Kuropo after the Italians, much larger, for instance, than the Spanish. The Jugo-Slavs and Czechoslovaks are each, roughly, twice as numerous as he Swedes or Dutch or Portuguese. a Kuropo in which these nations na-tions are pla.'od freely on their feet satisfied conditions of national freedom free-dom and equilibrium. Anv other En-rope En-rope will be one where stability can only last, in proportion as liberty is kept down. We havo outgrown that sort of stability." FRENCH REACH OUTSKIRTS OF THE LOGES WOOD PARIS, Aug. 17. In the region south of Roye French troops have made further progress in the L-oges wood and have reached the outskirts of the wood on the east, says the official statement from the war office today. There was heavy artillery fighting west of Roye during the night. Northwest of Ribecourt the French have repulsed two strong German attacks. The statement reads: In the region west of Roye there was heavy artillery activity during the night. South of the Avre, French troops continued to make progress in the Bois des Logos and reached the eastern east-ern outskirts of the wood. Between the Mutz and the Oise we repulsed two heavy attacks against Monolithc and Carnoy farms and maintained our positions. Northwest of Hheims an enemy raid i near La Ncuvillette was without results.