GRAVE UNREST IN AUSTRIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4592, 22 June 1917, Page 5

GRAVE UNREST IN AUSTRIA

REVOLUTION IN BOHEMIA DEMAND FOR A CONSTITU- • TIONAL GOVERNMENT. LARGE PRO-ALLY DEMONSTRAi TION. Reuter’s Telegrams. ■ LONDON, June 20. It is reported that a revolution has broken out in - Bohemia, the most northern province of the AustroHungarian Monarchy, of which the population is over six millions.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, PARIS, June 20.

■Le Matin states that there have been revolutionary -demonstrations atl Plague for some days. The Workmen’s Committee, representing every factory in the city, issued a manifesto demanding a constitutional Assembly for Czechs on a basis of universal suffrage, the purpose being the founding of an independent Czech State. Tens of thousands of the inhabitants assembled at Johna’s monument and sang a Slav hymn, adding the words, “Russia and France are with us.’ J The demonstrators afterwards appeared opposite the German Club.. • Gendarmes charged the demonstrators; and many were wounded. There weije similar riots in the principal Bohemian towns.

TANGLED POLITICAL SITUATION. EMPEROR AT HIS WITS’ END. UNFULFILLED PROMISES TO POLES'. Australian and N.Z. Cable, Association. (Received June 21, 2.45 p.m.)LONDON, June 20. The Daily Telegraph’s Rotterdam correspondent says the Austrian political position is entangled and seems to have reached an impasses Cabinet’s resignation has not yet been accepted. The Emperor is apparently at his wits’ end in finding a solution of the difficulties. The absence of any official announcement is significant-. M. Ciammartinitz made an eloquent -appeal to Austria’s loyalty, but it fell on deaf ears, the majority in the Chamber evidently being determined to insist on a solution based on the principle of tlie autonomy of the Empire’s nationalities, but the Government is opposed thereto. 7 The Polish question complicates the situation. Galicean Poles are awaiting the fulfilment of the promise of autonomy and refuse to . suppoi t ■Ciammartinitz. who is striving to postpone its fulfilment.

RUSSIA’S QUIESGENGE, ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS AGAINST ITALY.

ITALIANS PURSUE THEIR OAM-

PAIGN

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

(Received June 21, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. The Italians look askance on the reinforcements' bv the enemy in the Trentino and Isonzo, which are due to Russia’s quiescence. The Massaguro says : —Russia, without consultation with or approval of the Allies lias already revised the objects of the war.. (Received June 21. 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. Italian officialWe carried out a violent offensive in tlie Asiago end Plato and damaged the enemy defences and advanced over difficult ground. W-e /carried formidable positions on Mount Ortijara, including the summit of Hill 2105.

regent meeting of reighsrath., PROTEST AGAINST PRUSSIANISED' RULE. STRAIGHT TALK*BY SOCIALISTS. Admiralty—Per Wireless.. Pres 3. (Received June -21. 9.5 p.m.) BERNE, June . 20. H. Olammartmjtz’s resignation is due primarily to the coalition of Polish Nationalists and Slav Opposition creating a Slav majority. The Austrian deputies-in the. former . party who were holding the balance of power, offer to negotiate with the new Government for an amicable settlement of the Polish question. Though the censorship suppressed reports of last week’s debates and the reopening of the Reiehsrath, extracts from official reports show that the Poles and Slavs went to great lengths of frankness. A Polish .Socialist declared that the Poles of all shades of politics were prepared to fight for independence. Czech Socialists declared that eleven million Austro-Gernians were ruling twenty million Slavs; that Austria was being subjected to Prussian rule, and-that Germany’s interest must cease. Other Czechs demanded the independence of Bohemia and warned the Government of revolutionary feeling at Prague and elsewhere.