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Show Aiistria-Bimgary Facing Serious Sitaation ' Peace Demanded. GENERAL WALKOUT Entire Transport System at Standstill Trouble Everywhere. LONDON," Jan. 21. The strike movement is spreading throughout Austria-Hungary and it is associated with a demand for immediate peace, according to dispatches received in I London from Swiss and Dutch sources, j A general strike was declared at Budapest Bud-apest on Friday when the entire trans-' trans-' port system came to a, standstill while rtrom all parts of the duel empire strikes and demonstrations are re-i re-i ported. j The food situation and the question of peace were tho sole subjects 'of discussion dis-cussion at tho sitting of tho budget committee of the Austrian chamber of deputies on Saturday. The Socialists, according to the dispatches, described the situation as extremely serious and declared that peace could not be postponed. post-poned. Count von Toggenborg, the minister of the interior, told tho deputies that Count Czerniu, the Austrian foreign minister, and Leon Trotzky, tho Rus-sion Rus-sion foreign minister, exhibited mnny similarities which fact, ho added, offered of-fered a guarantee that the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk would go well. Tho Socialist party of Austria has published a declaration -stating that the workmen will only calm down when tbo government can undertako that it will not allow the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk to break down on the territorial question and that the system sys-tem of food distribution will be reorganized. |