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Show -'REVOLTS THREATEN CENTRAL POWERS, i j GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY HUN-GARY ARE IN THROES OF ' SERIOUS OUTBREAKS. J Munich Placed Under Martial Law Fol-' lowing Assassination of Premier. Germany Said to Be Casting About for a Dictator. Berlin. (lermany, Austria and Hun- j gary are in the llii-oes of len-oi-ist re- j Volts which threaien Id make the com-j munist stage of ihe French revolution! look mild by comparison. j In (lerinany the outbreak is thus far! confined to Bavaria, whose capital,! Munich, was placed under martial law ! following the assassination of Premier j Kurt Eisner and Ihe subsequent shoot-: Ing of nine men, at least four of whom, I Including two cabinet members, ar dead, while five other members of tin government may die from thei wounds. The situation in Austria is obscure but ominous reports are filtering through from Vienna indicating tin stage has been set there for a similar simi-lar upheaval. In Hungary the capital, Budapest, is the seat of a terrorist outbreak similar sim-ilar to the Bavarian, except that so far no bloodshed has been reported. The city is under martial law. Covernment troops are inarching on Munich to put down the revolt. All Germany (s casting about for a dictator, a man of iron who will fight terror with terror. No one of that cal- Iber is in the offing now, however, though the new revolution may produce pro-duce him at any moment. I'pon an anti-terrorist campaign with blood and iron alone do the German Ger-man people at present pin their faint hopes for salvation from the most terrible ter-rible civil war the world has seen. |