AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 7

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

FALL OF THE HUIfGAEIAN MINISTRY. (llr Tolccrapti.-I'reu A«sni:lallnn<.-C.>t>jrlcM | ,■;.-■' Budapest, Scptembor.2B. The Hungarian Cabinet -{Premier, Dr. Wekerle). has resigned, owing to the Independence' party's objection to Austria's postponing the establishment of!.the,proposed.National' Bank for Hungary.' v ; ..'Tho Emperor Francis Joseph has summoned ll Kossuth, Leader of the Independence party, t) forma Ministry. ,'. ■DREADNOUGHTS POSTPONED^ ;' FINANCIAL' BURDEN.' ; (Rec, September SO, 0.5.; a.m.)'. Vienna, September 29.: • The Budapest (Hungarian) ; - newspaper "Pesther ; Lloyd' 1 states that the "Common, Ministry' of (Baron Aerenthal, *! inister .for .Foreign Affairs; . General Baron von Schouaich, Minister for War; and Baron Burian, Minister for Financoi at their lost conference, decided to postpouo the, demand for extraordinary credits to tho' AustroHungnrlan army: and' navy, and; to delay, tho construction oi' the: four ' projected Dreadnoughts. , . ■ .'' '■', • . .' ~•'•:■ ['ijuese Dreadnoughts' havo' been *an integral" part of prospective calculations us lo iuo future naval,.strength •. of Gonnany and ''her allies. The Credits were resisted by the Financo Ministers of Austria and.of. Hungary.]; PARLIAMENTARY 'MAJORITY V. VIENNA .INFLUENCE. The Independence party (leader, M. Kossuth) has the majority in the Hungarian Parliament, and m the circumstances the Wekerle Ministry should have gone out months ago to'make room tor an Independence Ministry, but Vienna in. Iluonce .has been 'postponing this event as long as t l ,o , ss 'i;!?■ ,},?, J«'y the Austriancorrespondent of *<Tho Times" wrote: !, . ■: iS 6 '"■P??*"?, that characterised the whole regime of the Hungarian coalition, from its formation at the end of 1904' to its recent fall has so disorgunisndnnd demoralised Hungarian political life that the utmost caution Is requisite in fomnng an opinion on the present ft n J! on -«. N t evert , I ! l!les3 '. it is hard'to resist a feeling that, a disposition: to. commit serious mistakes exists amongst some Austrian and '2S S? h n» d r se f M of th 6 Crown ' Wo names Me mentioned of personages who aro alleged to have dissuaded the Monarch from adopting &? n u kf V Par H a , m ? ntar y solution of , the ?r^f^ Wch . W0 , uld ha™ been to entrust M° Inrifv b '-K 'f ad -6r-of-tbo Parliamentary mnl EV th the - 1 l orM ati'>n-of ; a,Cabinet on a Orawn!" aB Upon bet l f «a him. and the about : rhik « tine ' ° f - the i party Obout this,time gave extra force to tho arcu. ment of the, correspondent, mid, in a subse he wrote thaVthesiLHonwa' 5R i y i \ a "'"ot.owiug to "a reconciliation effected betweon ,tho two sections of tho Independence; party led respectively by' 11 Ko£ rath, .fie President of■ the Chamber M. de Justh Unity in'tho party having thni been restored, ;M.. Kossuth is once inore nWe to command, the. full support of the Parli, &tSL ri aiorHy ' '"• $ 'hUfere,°pds"ble' that the wish- to negotiate furthc? n' tw ossuth befon! accepting the advice I h Lh U h V PP ? ar to dcsiro 'he adoptfon of a high-handed and even a catastrophic policy'•