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Show AUSTRIA K k IIKLS1IIE Men Quit Work in War Factories Fac-tories and Discontent Spreads Throughout Empire. LONDON. Jan. 21. A general striko Is on throughout Austria, according to an Exchange Telegram company dispatch dis-patch from Paris today, which reports 100,000 men quitting work in Vienna and Neustadt closing down all the war factories. The strikers are described as openly anti-German and the movement move-ment as both political and economic and especially aimed at securing peace. Public demonstrations, it is addod, have been hold in many places, at which hostility was -voted toward Berlin- for trying to force the Austrains to continue tho war. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21. Sparks of sedition aro spluttering behind tho hermetically sealed frontiers of Austria-Hungary, threatening at any moment mo-ment to whin tho emDire's wide tlis- coDtent into flames of open-revolt. So widespread and intense is thiF discontent thut the very troops detailed detail-ed to keep the borders closed and the news from filtering through aro instrumental in-strumental in keeping the world post-o.l post-o.l on the yrop.rees of Bolshovikism in the Hapsburg domain. Strikes and riots, mutinies and ner' denionstratioi.t are the order nf the day. Some of the largest plants aro : f-fected f-fected and the prospect ,of a nationwide nation-wide munition sirika 'corns big. Vienna, Vien-na, Budapest and Iesguo are hodbeds of political propaganda. ;-nc of tho largest Austrian munition plants, Just outside of Vienna, at Wlener-Ncustidt, is immediately - In tho s-enpp o! tho ce agitation, as :iro the big Skoda v.orks outside of Pllsen. Upon the output of these Aujtr!?n pi-tins Gcrmnu relief to a material "x-tent "x-tent In connection uUh her much l.or-alded l.or-alded offensive in the west She has called overy available man to the colors, col-ors, Including thousands previously oxomptod, to turn out munitions. With the Italian danger to Trieste and Lei-bach Lei-bach removed, by German aid, Hlnden-burg Hlnden-burg insists upon so many million pounds, not of flesh, but of munitions, from Austria. Germany Alarmed. It Is now clear, from advlcos that reached here duxing the last twemy-four twemy-four hours, that Gormany, grave ly alarmed over lh? inovitable effect of Bolshc-vlkism upon her army r.nd tavy aoJ her homo front, was determined to bTjtih off with the Russians at Trest-Ltcvsk, Trest-Ltcvsk, but was prevented in iho eleventh hour from doing so by Count O.ernin, the Arttrlan foreign minister, minis-ter, who hAB pledged peace to the Austrian people In unequivocal terms. So irresistible is tho Austrian people's peo-ple's demand for peaco that one c!ir.-lomat c!ir.-lomat who knows tho situation accurately accur-ately venrured this remark tonight: "If Czernin went back to Vienna and told his people peace negotiations were doflnltely off, he would be mobbed forthwith." The Bolsheviki, on their part, fully aware of this situation behind the Aus trian borders, can afford to bide their time and stick to their original tertn3, It is argued. Cause of Unrest. Four factors were cited here tonight as the underlying causes of the Austro-Hungarian unrest: 1 Food and fuel are scarcer and dearer than ever before. 2 Ninety por cent of Austrians and Hungcrians are intensely hostile and bittor against Gormany, whom they accuse of delaying peace. Fearing absolute ab-solute vassalago to Berlin, they qjam-or qjam-or for peace now, lest Germany aggrandize ag-grandize herself by further conquests in the west 3 Tho speeches of Premier Lloyd Georgo and President Wilson, and tho i; peace almB of the British Labor party I have raised the cry among the alien j races. "Our enemies promise to give us what our own government refuses i, to grant independence." t 1 Tho Austrian industrial world y fears a "war after tho war" if the con- j fllct lasts beyond spring." nn j! |