ITALY.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS ALREADY DE- • SERTING.
-AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESIGNATION.
HE PROVES A POOR PROPHET
SMALL ENCOUNTERS IN THE
TYROL
(Received May 25, 2.30 p.m.) ROME, May 24, Four thousand Austrian troops., complaining of starvation, deserted and were interned in North Itaiv. '
Anarchists and communists have been exempted from military service and enrolled in the Red Cross.
A sensation was caused by the announcement that Baron Burian's (Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs) resignation had been accepted. Throughout lie had advised the Emperor Franz Joseph that Italy would never fight. * VIENNA, May 24. Official —Small encounters have occurred on the Tyrol frontiers.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 7
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