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Show ABANDON KAISER AUSTRIAN DEMAND HJPROAR IN REICHSRAT WHEN SPEAKER URGES DESERTION OF GERMANY. No Chance of Obtaining Peace by Clinging to German Side and Submitting Sub-mitting to German Militarism, Says Former Czech Minister. Zurich. The Austrian reichsrat was thrown into an uproar on Saturday when the former Czech minister, Berr Praschek, declared the hate of the entire world was not directed Jigainst Austria, but against Germany, and that Austria should detach herself (rom her ally, says a Vienna dispatch. dis-patch. "How are we to obtain peace," demanded de-manded Herr Praschek, "if we cling to the German side? Must we continue con-tinue to sacrifice our interest to the expansion of Germany? Must we continue con-tinue to submit to the German militarism mili-tarism that has drawn us into this war?" The speaker declared that Czech deputies had been imprisoned for attempting at-tempting to bring "about an alliance of Austria with Russia and France and added that if they were to be stigmatized stigma-tized as traitors then all Czechs who believed similarly should be so stigmatized. |