TROUBLED AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 194, 6 May 1918, Page 5

TROUBLED AUSTRIA

INTERNAL CRISES MULTIPLYING APRIL THE WORST MONTH SINCE THE WAR (Kec. May 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, May i. The "Daily News" Geneva correspondent states that political and economic tension in Austria is intense. Fully a dozen crises confront the authorities, and the representatives of the subjugated nationalities expect an inevitable collapse every moment. Vienna correspondents state that tho unrest is widespread. April was tho most critical month of the war period. Work ivas suspended on May Day. There were twenty-two demonstrations in Vienna and fifty-eight in the provinces, at which peace and better conditions for labour were demanded. There were no serious ■ Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMAN HIGHLAND IN AUSTRIA A TRUCULENT PRESS. London, May 3. The Zurich correspondent of tho "Morning Post" states that the German newspapers in Austria ore increasingly trueulent, and have practical-j ly delivered nn ultimatum to Dr. Seidlev (Premier of Austria), demanding that they bo given greater influence and | power with the Government, and de- I raand a restriction of the freedom of the Cxecb. and Jugo-Slav Press and right of I assembly—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. GERMAN-SPEAKING PROVINCES TALK OP SECESSION. (Uec. May 5, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, May i. Tho "Frankfurter Zeitung's" Vienna correspondent states that a big movement is developing among the German-speak-ing provinces of Austria in favour of seceding from Austro-Hungary and Joining the Federation of the German States. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.