ITALIAN STROKE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 5

ITALIAN STROKE

BRILLIANT SUCCESS IN THE IfflTlO'

• BIG UPHEATAL IN ■ AUSTRIA :

SIMMERING REVOLUTION AND POLITICAL CHAOS

By a euccc&rful coup the Italians hare seized a formidable Austrian mountain position i" the Trentino ami captured over 900 prisoners. Tho enemy, however, is heavily reinforcing hie lines with h'oope from the Russian front, and souio apprehension is felt on tho Italian eido that Bussia's impotouco at this juncture may complicate tlio military situation. Tho new Jfiinpcror of Austria-Hungary is face to face with a new political crisis in connection with the resignation of tie Austrian Cabinet. A Polish. Nationalist-Slav coalition has gained the ascendancy in tho Chamber of Deputies, and is now in a position to make, demands for constitutional reforms by constituitional means. The Emperor, wo are told, ie at his wits' end. Tho situation is further complicated by tcvolutionavy demonstrations in Bohemia. 31. Jonnart, the Allies' High Commissioner in Greece, is displaying the iron hand ami a vigorous broom. Tho list of expulsions includes all tho names that became familiar during the red days of last December. It. Jonnart is doit pressing for a roform of the Government oa a constitutional basis. ' Ex-King Constantino has had a very hot reception at the frontier station of Chiasso, cud was mol)bed by ira angry crowd. The Hoffmann soparato peace intrigue has deeply stirred the Swiss populace, and angry crowds hare demanded a further investigation of an affair which threatens to besmirch the-na-tional honour. .Russia, already has refused to allow the Swiss Minister at Pefcrograd to send a cipher inessago to his Government. An important debate in tho Cape Assembly was evoked by a motion by Mr. J. X. Merriman condemnatory of republican propaganda. The tenor of the speeches was etrongly Imperialistic.