WARLIKE SPEECH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 7

WARLIKE SPEECH.

AUSTRIA AND SERVIA. A CONFERENCE. DR. WEKERLE AND BARON AERENTPIAL. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 26, 9 a.m.) VIENNA, 25th March. Dr. Wekerle, President of the Hungarian Ministerial Council, delivered a warlike speech in the Chamber at Pesth. He confers with Baron Aehrenthal (Austrian Foreign Minister) at Vienna to-day regarding the trouble with Servia. GRAVE DEADLOCK. A QUESTION REQUIRING RADICAL TREATMENT. VIENNA, 25th March. The newspaper Fremdenblatt, in a ref erenco to the situation in the Balkans, says ; "The Powers wish the threatening conflict to be momentarily averted, bufc we wish it permanently removed. The Servian question requires radical treatment, and must get out of the world forthwith and for ever." This semi-official comment refers to the exceedingly grave deallock which has arisen as the result of Baron Aehrenthal, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, objecting to the terms of the formula proposed by Sir EdWard Grey, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The proposed formula, it in consider cd*, would enable Servia to satisfy all of Austria's substantive demands, and would have smoothed the way to the suggested conference. It is understood that Sir Edward Grey is preparing some fresh proposals, aud meanwhile Baron Aehrenthal withholds what is almost an ultimatum to Servia. SERVIA WILL FOLLOW ADVICE OF POWERS. AND DO SO UNRESERVEDLY. LONDON, 25th March. Reuter's correspondent at Belgrade reports that the Government has announced that Servia will unreservedly follow the advice of the Powers. The fact that Servia is determined to' throw on the Powers the onus of defending her interests has caused much dissatisfaction in Austria-Hungary. Light has been thrown upon the probable attitude Russia would take at a conference of the Powers. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times, xelegraphing to his paper on the sth of last month, stated : "As has been repeatedly shown in these telegrams, .Russia is inspired by the liveliest interest in the well-being of the Serb race. All the just aspirations of Servia and Montenegro find hearty support in St. Petersburg. Russia is equally anxious to promote the welfare of the Slavs inhabiting the annexed provinces. She is exerting, and is asking her friends and allies to exert, the utmost influence to impress upon Austria that a tolerable retrime in Bosnia and Herzegovina, implies advantages both internal and external—the better the Bosnians like their new position, the readier will Servia and Montenegro be to accept such compensations as are offered and to live at peace with their neighbours. But Russia cannot consistently with these sentiments, or with her position as a Great Power, countenance any policy calculated to disttfrb the peace of Europe. She will noli and cannot countenance v policy of adventure. If the leaders of public opinion at Belgrade and Cettigne count upon her aid to promote their ambitious designs, they are abusing the credulity of their people, and are playing a dangerous game, the responsibility for which will rebound upon themselves."