AUSTRIA'S DESPERATE PILGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 19 December 1919, Page 5

AUSTRIA'S DESPERATE PILGHT.

PROVINCES THREATEN TO BREAK AWAY, ' ALLIES' RELIEF MEASURES. I. • ~ "■ fly Electrioj Telegraph.—Copyright. ■'Australian-New Zealand Cable' Association. Received December 19, 9.15 a.m ' LONDON, Dec.' 17. i! Tlio Daily Telegraph's Milan correspon .lent.states.that the situation in Austria i.Vo desperate that in several provinces—.Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Tyrol—there is l [strong agitation to break away from Aus :ria. v ' Vorarlberfj desires to join Switzerland nd Salzburg and Ty r °l wish inclusion ii lermany. j The Tyrolese thtroaten to break awa\ oif ibly, declaring jtho Austrian Republic i--7i?ible to feecl tins people. The Tyrol Diei iws adopted a resolution asking Vienna U I ).'j(eain from the! Suprerrie Council at Pari•drmission for Tyrol to join jiiio Gcrmai xjonomic fiysteoi.PARIS, Dec. 16. The .Allies,have conferred with referenc* o Austria and contemplate granting credil , :<J> Austria.on the security of control of th j purees of revenue and the organisation o .-tippl*>s and transport. SUPREME COUNCIL'S INHIBITION Australian-New Zealand Cable Ansociatioi k <' r PARIS, Dec. 16. Witfh reference to tho separatist move •wonts':-in Vorarlberg • and elsewhere the juprtfrae Council has notified Herr Rennei Ihat/it will not permit any measures im pairing; the integrity of Austria or com promising Austria's political or economir independence, as provided in tho Peace Treaty.