Eureka Reporter | 1904-01-15 | Page 5 | The Multi-Tongued Austrian Army

the haiti tongued austrian army the hungarian crisis which threat ens the integrity of the austrian fm pire has risen solely from the demands of the hungarians that the hangar lan ian language should be used in giving I 1 commands to hungarian troops ih iho austrians assert that the I 1 hungarian I 1 lam language or of command would destroy th the e unity of the austro hungarian army the hungarian rejoinder la Is that german should be used in corn com between regimental commanders and their superior officers but that from the file colonel downward hungarian should be used this Is the custom now in regiments with a majority ot of magyars in them as it Is the custom to use polish in the polish regiments and croatian Cro atlan in the choit regiments the point la Is made by the hungarians that in officer cannot cheer on bis his ben men in a language they cannot understand but be he must be able to use the language ot of his men be it german hungarian czech croat Rut henlon slovan doumanian Rou manian or italian af such buell diverse clement elements Is the austrian army composed