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Show TROUBLES OF THE AUSTRIANS ARE COMING TO HEAD LONDON, May 2 via Ottawa The best indication of the enemy defeat in northern Flanders in the view of London Lon-don newspapers is the evident imminence immi-nence of tho renewal of a peace offer. Tho German papers emphasize the report re-port that the pope is about to issue a new peace note, while the German peace agents are busy in neutral countries. coun-tries. Articles in the Scandinavian press suggest that Italy may be the man objective of the enemy attempts to divide the allies. Meanwhile the troubles of the Austrian Aus-trian empire are apparently coming to a head. The cabinet crisis in Austria and Hungary are still unsettled. The Arhei-ter Arhei-ter Zeitung of Vienna denounces Hungary Hun-gary for starving Austria and declares that the imports from the Ukraine are still remote and empty stomachs cannot afford to wait. The arrival of Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak troops on the Italian front under un-der the Italian flag, has disquieted the Austro-Hungarian leaders, who fear the effect on their Slav troops. Recently some of these men persuaded a number of Austrian Czechs to desert, which the Italian barrage between the Austrian support and front lines enabled them to do. An English correspondent on the Swiss frontier has received information that the populations of Austria and Hungary are starving and seething with revolt, which, he predicts, will break out when the western offensive has been broucht to a standstill. Red Flag Provocative. AMSTERDAM, May 2. The German government, according to a dispatch from Berlin, says it is unable to demand the removal of the red flag from the Russian embassy at Berlin, as it has been recognized as the color of the Russian Rus-sian republic. The government made this announcement in reply to protests of conservative members of the reiehs-tag, reiehs-tag, who considered the flying of a red flag in Germany provocative. |