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Show CENTRAL EUROPE AND GERMANY I WILL SOON BE STORM CENTERS: I j EX-RULER OF SLOVAKIA PREDICTS I BUDAPEST, Aug. 28 Central Europe Eu-rope and Germany will surely be war I and political storm centers soon. In the opinion of Victor Dvorcak. who was president of the Blovakia'n republic repub-lic for a period of a few weeks previous pre-vious to the annexation of Slovakia by tho Czechs In November, 1!US. Slovaks In the United States invited him to vlsll them this summer. "I have Just completed a lour of all Europe," said Mr. Dvorcak, "and these storms are in the air. German Ger-man will break up Into the small states of a hundred years ago The a.nriii. nan (ierm.in- now held l tin-Czechs tin-Czechs will join the Saxons, while tho Austrlans will Join the Bavarians, perhaps. per-haps. "There Will bo a war between the Poles and the Czechs, as the latter have an understanding with the Moscow Mos-cow government. In this war Hungary will help the Poles. In order to get back Slovakia, once her province. Should the Rumanians have difficulties difficul-ties with the Russian Bolshevik! over the old province of Ke.-c,irabie. this will be a signal for the Hungarians to get back Transylvania The Hungarians Hun-garians know well that the allies Can't help the Czechs in a military way, i and perhaps wouldn't If they could. j The point that troubles the Hun-' garians most Is the possibls attitude, of the Serbs should the Hungarians engage In a new war. Thev hope that! Italy Is such case would threaten t ' bbbI the Serbs. Should the Hungarians first strengthen themselves by help-! help-! lng the monarchists In Austria to over-throw over-throw thai republic, and then both be Joined anew under Emperor mU Charles, the case with Serbia might h "Hungary is in such a condition at present that she can't abide by ihe frontiers of the peace treaty. Two- H thirds of her territory has been taken by the Czechs, Serbs and Rumanians. Mm the latter getting nearly one-third. WW Her population has been cut from L'u.f .iiou to 8,000.000. These 12 000.- I 000 under new domination are beinn r..li . ,i .un! mistreated h. their m-v Ufl masters, until many flee lo Hungary MmW proper. "This has made a big, di.-satisfled mU population which has no Rionej or work, or any future unless they win MM ' back their homes Mm "So a new war will Inevitably come out of this homo easiness and hatred MM anel poverty In Slovakia the C.ce-hs MM have tried to rule by arms, but tho MM locally enrolled soldiers are fleeing to the forests. Communism has been de- MM elared by workmen In the centers about Kaschau The peasants who used each year to go to the plaina -H of Hungary to till the soil and gtther MM the harvests are not allowed to cross M the frontiers. So they must starve this MM winter Already they have but two MM pounds of breael per month Czech MM peculators and carpet-baggers are MM cutting down the magnificent forests." M BsSbI |