April 11--The Foreign Office publishes a second "Red Book," charging
atrocities and breaches of international law against Serbia, Russia,
France, and England; it is declared that there is not an article of
international law which has not been violated repeatedly by the troops
of the Allies.
April 12--A law court at Vienna, in the case of Dubois, a Belgian, holds
that despite the German occupation Dubois has not lost his Belgian
citizenship.
April 14--Wealthy Hungarians are preparing to flee before the Russian
invasion.
April 15--Some of the Hungarian newspapers are discussing peace.
April 17--War Office announces that men between 18 and 50 of the
untrained Landsturm will hereafter be liable for military service.
April 18--Bread riots occur in Vienna and at points in Bohemia; Vienna
is now protected by long lines of trenches on the left bank of the
Danube; $14,000,000 is said to have been spent in fortifications at
Budapest and Vienna.
April 19--The food situation in Trieste is critical.
April 21--All Austrian subjects in Switzerland are recalled by their
Government.
April 22--Riots in Trieste are assuming a revolutionary character; "Long
Live Italy!" is being shouted by the mobs; it is reported from Paris
that the Hungarian Chamber at its opening session refused to vote the
new military credits demanded by the General Staff.
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