The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1915. AUSTRIA’S PERIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1915. AUSTRIA’S PERIL.

It may be reasonably concluded that the resignation of Count Berchtold means that the Emperor Josef’s advisers who will not see the headlong ruin upon which Austria is rushing, are in the ascendant, and the policy of reckless militarism into which Aus-tria-Hungary has been driven, wil continue to the bitter end. Always a man of moderate views it was directly in opposition to his urgings and advice that the fatal ultimatum was handed to Servia, for Count Berchtold saw sufficiently far ahead to realise that the Prussian militarists and the reckless Magyar would, between them, bring the Dual Monarchy to the. plight in which it now stands. Sum-j ming up the situation a writer in the Auckland Star says Conservative, | autocratic and reactionary to the last degree, the great Magyar nobles, in l their fear and hatred of the Slavs, 1 have played into the hands of the militarists, and now that Hungary itself is in danger of invasion from the Russian hordes, it is characteristic of them that they should hold more' tenaciously and obstinately than ever to their preconceived views and intentions. Count Berchtold is replaced by a Magyar, and this means that the dominant war party in Austria has figuratively nailed its colors to the mast, or is prepared to die in the last ditch with its German friends and allies.