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Show New Treaty Gives the Kaiser Control of His Ally's Army, Not Only for the Present, but Future as Well. SUBJECT RACES ARE IN REVOLT Public Buildings Burned in Bohemia and Newspaper News-paper Offices Sacked; Eight Police Officers Cremated at Chozen. WASHINGTON, May 31. Complete subjugation of Austria-Hungary to German Ger-man domination and the elimination of any hope for even semi-indepeudeDce that may have been entertainer by the Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and other anti-German elements iu the dual monarchy is seen here as the certain result of the new military treaty between Germany and Austria-Hungary. The state department has just received re-ceived through its own sources what is believed to be the text of this remarkable remark-able document, and it is said to confirm the general statements of its provisions already announced in the press. Among other things it shows that if there ever was a common ground upon which the United States might have discussed peace with Austria, it has disappeared along with what liberty of action had been left to the dual monarchy by her ally. TREATY TO HOLD AFTER THE WAR. In this treaty, as officials here interpret in-terpret it, Austria-Hungary surrenders to Germany not only for the present but for the future a3 well, the complete com-plete control of her military establishment, establish-ment, in time of peace as well as in war. This carries with it the right to organize the Austrian fjrmy even to its personuel, which means that the Germans Ger-mans will hold to military service under her own commanders il! necessary every fit Slav, Czech. Italian, Pole and Rumanian Ru-manian comprising the population of the Austro-Hungorian empire. It follows that there can be no political independence independ-ence of these peoples. SUPPORT OF THE U. S. ASSURED. Secretary Lansing recently formally declared that the nationalistic aspirations aspira-tions of the Czechoslovaks and the Jugoslavs for freedom have the earnest sympathy of the American government. This message has gono to -the am bilious opposed races as a further as-sranec as-sranec of the purpose of the United Slates to enter into no peace treaty with their oppressors that docs not concede con-cede Ihcir right to a separate national existence. BOHEMIA IN OPEN REVOLT AGAINST AUSTRIAN RULE LONDON, May 31. (British Admiralty Admir-alty per Wireless Press.) Riots and internal in-ternal disorders of all kinds are increasing increas-ing in Bohemia. A YionDa newspaper says that what is happening today in rnhemia resembles the Lombard! and Venetian uprisings in ISIS, except that today the empire is hampered bv her (Continued on Page Three.) AUSTRIA BECOMES VASSAL OF GElliY (Continued from Page One.) enticements in a war from which she does not see a way to csenpe. At t'bozen. crowds, exasperated by police brutality, set, lire to the barracks and to the citv hall, where the mounted police were lorlgeVl. Kight of the officers offi-cers were burned to death. At Kolin the people pulled down the Austrian Han ami raised the Bohemiau fiaK-Public fiaK-Public buildings have been burned at Tabor and other towns in Bohemia and in Olmntz, Moravia. At Frag-no the offices ot the German newspapers, the Zeitung and Xeuestc Nachrichten, were sacked. Tho Prapno correspondent of the Btuttaart Neueste Nachrichteu telegraphed tele-graphed to his paper that the, events of last Smiday at Prau'ue. exceeded in grav-itv grav-itv all the previous demonstrations. 'The Ncuo Frcic .Press of Vienna, appeals to all conservative elements for the preservation of the Austrian state, asserting that "only the tenacity and union of those who desire the preservation preserva-tion of the state can make the rnon-arcliv rnon-arcliv survive this great crisis.'' Trie Croatia press reports that martial law has been proclaimed in Bosnia, that rioting has occurred iu various towns and that the Ilalo blav entente is daily becoming stronger. |