AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CHAOS

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

AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CHAOS

EMPEROR AT HIS WITS' END

STRONG MOVE FOR RACIAL

AUTONOMY

London, .Time 20. The "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent stales that the Austrian political position is entangled, and seems to have reached an impasse. The Cabinet's resignation has j;ot yet been ac'J; o.epted. The Emperor is apparently nt s his wite' end to find a solution for his '.' difficulties. The absence of an official '" announcement is significant. 0 if. Clamninrtinitz's eloquent appeal ", to the Ansti'inns' loyalty fell upon deaf care. The majority" in tho Chamber of 0 Deputies is evidently determined to -in--6 eist upon a solution based upon tho prin- , ciple of the autonomy of the Empire's nationalities, but the Government is op- '; posed to this. " The Polish question complicates the 0 situation. The Galician Poles are awaiting tho fulfilment of the promise of autj tonomy, and refuse to support M. Claraf martinitz, who is striving to postpone. '; its fulfilment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '' SLAV MAJORITY IN CHAMBER OF j DEPUTIES , f SUPPRESSED DEBATES IK THE te REICnSRATH. { (Rcc. June 21, 9.5 p.m.) Berne, June 20. n A wireless report states that Herr Clomr martinitz's resignation wee primarily due 1 to a coalition, of Polish Nationalists and I tho S t lav Opposition creating a Slav mar jority in the Austrian. Chamber of Depiuties, the former holding the balance of 3 power. They offer to negotiate with the - new Government for an amicable seti tlemont of the Polish question. Though t the censorship has suppressed the reports , of last week's debates at the re.-ope.ning - of the Roichsrath, extracts from the offil cial reports '.-how that the Poles and s Slavs went to great lengths. Frankecz, - the Polish Socialist, declared that Poles of all shades of opinion in politics were prepared to fight for their independence. I The Czech Socialists declared that eleven million -Austro-Gernmns were ruling twenty million Slavs. Austria was subjected to Prussian rule. Germany's interest must cease. Other Czechs have demanded the independence of Bohemia, warning the Government of tho revolutionary feeling in Prague and elsewhere. I —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i' RUSSIA AND FRANCE ARE . WITH US" GREAT RIOTS IN THE CITIES New York, Ju.no 20. It is reported that a Tevolutiou has broken out in Bohemia.—Aus.-N./i. Cable Assn. WORKERS' MANIFESTO Paris, June 20. Th "Matin" states that great revolutionary demonstrations were held at Pra<nie for some days. A workmen s committee, representing every factory in the city, issued a. manifesto demanding a Constituent Assembly for the Czechs on the basis of universal suffrage for the purpose of founding an independent Czech-Slav State. Tens of thousands ot the inhabitants assembled at the Johnnuis Monument and sang the Slav hymn, adding the words, "Russia and i-Tance are with us." The demonstrators afterwards stopped at the German Club. The gendarmes charged, and many _ were wounded. There were similar riots ini the. principal Bohemian towns.—Aus.-iN./i. Cable Assn.