AUSTRIAN DISCLOSURES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12120, 23 December 1913, Page 4

AUSTRIAN DISCLOSURES.

CHARGE. AGAINST PRESIDENT

("By Electric Telegraph—CorvnicnT.] Per Press Association. ■ ■ • Vienna, December 21. " Grat Karl Sturgkh, President of the Council iiji the Re.ich.srnth, sharply rebuked Lavislns Von Dlugosz, Minister for Galicia, for divulging official secre'ts and for stating that Stapinski. lead«v of tile Polish Nationalists,/ has received three thousand sterling from the secret service fund to buy off the Opposition of his newspaper to the .Government' on the ,eve of the elections.

The revelation was the outcome of a. quarrel between Dlugosz and Stapinski. An unfavorable impression lias be.en aroused by Sturgkh's admission that '.the press was bribed. The resignation of Dlugosz has been demanded.