RESIGNATION OF COUNT TISZA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 5

RESIGNATION OF COUNT TISZA.

A BLOW TO GERMAN INFLUENCE. POLITICAL CHANGES IN AUSTRIA INDICATED. REPORTED DEATH OF KAISER'S SON.

AMSTERDAM, May 24. Count Tisza has resigned after a lengthy audience with the Emperor Karl. It is expected that M. Lichy or M. Serenyi will be asked to form a Cabinet.

The resignation was the outcome of German intrigues, Count Ti^za opposing the Austro-German Polish policy, and his refusal to furnish provisions for Austin-Germany. The deciding factor was the Hungarian electoral reform.

Count Tisza's resignation is a crushing blow to.German influence in Aus-tria-Hungary. The Emperor Karl and his wife are credited with the responsibility, and have gained German unpopularity thereby.

LONDON, May 24. The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent indicates forthcoming political and economic changes in Austria. Emperor Karl has nominated sixty new members of the Austrian Upper House, five of whom are heredi^ tary and the remainder life peers. They include Herr Benedict (proprietor of the Nieue Frie Presse, the first journalist member of the Austrian Upper House), Dr Dumba (ex-Ambas-sador to America), Herr Deitrichtein (ex-Ambassador to London), and General Conrad yon Hotzendorff (ex-War Minister). Barons Rothschild and Skoda, with nineteen new peers, belong to the Left Party, favoring liamentary government; twenty-three to the autocratic Right, and the remainder constitute the Middle parties. | The Daily Telegraph states that a i Norwegian newspaper reports that the Kaiser's son, Prince Eitel Friedrich, has died from typhus.

AMSTERDAM, May 23. An explosion at the munition works at Adlersdorf, near Berlin, caused much damage, and many were injured AMSTERDAM, May 24. Advices from Budapest state' that a thousand houses were burned at Gyoengyoes, whilst 250 are still burning. There were seven fatalities, and several thousand are homeless.