POLITICAL CRISIS IN AUSTRIA.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 7

POLITICAL CRISIS IN AUSTRIA.

OFFICIALS DISMISSED

(Rec. January 7, 5.5. p.m.) Copenhagen, January 5. A. Vienna telegram to the _ "Lokat Anzeigcr" says there is practically a new political crisis in Austria owing to the Government's refusal to fulfil tho late Emperor's promise to give Home Rule to Galicia. ' . ~,,,, Hen; Sylvester, tho President of the Austrian Parliament, has resigned. _ Numerous changes have been made in important administrative offices. .Herr Kokolren, Presidenf'of- the PocS Department, lias been dismissed, and Baron Maccio and Count Forgach, two Under-Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, have resigned.—Reuter.

AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS

ALLOWED FREEDOM OF SPEECH (Rec. January 7, 6.5 p.m.) Londorii January 5. The btsst dismissals in Austria in« elude Baron Maccio, the principal De* partmental Chief of the Foreign Office, and Count Forpach, the second Chief, to whose machinations tho war was largely duo. , Another ■ significant move is tie unmuzzling of the. Austrian Socialists, who are now permitted to demand the evacuation of Allied territories in tne west and south.—Reuter.

THE KING'S BESIRE

TO RULE CONSTITUTIONALLY (Bee. January 7, 5.5 p.m.) London) January 6. The "Morning Post's" Budapest correspondent says the general belief is that Count Tisza's fall is inevitable. King Charles "has decided to make a clearance of all bis predecessor's confc-> dential statesmen, who were eo mvolv-. cd with the Germans as to endanger tho independence of the monarchy. The King desires to rule constitutionally, in co-operation with Parliament and m sympathy with the people.—Aub.-N.Z* Cable Assn. ' . "_. '' .