THE BALKANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 6

THE BALKANS.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN POLITICS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

(Received 10.40 a.m.) Vienna, June 20.

The Lower House of the Reichsrath unanimously asked tho Government to disband the reservists in the southern frontier.

The Admiralty is asking the delegations in the autumn to vote for the construction of a new division of Dreadnoughts in substitution for the vessels of the antiquated Monarch class, the construction to begin early in 1914, eighteen months sooner than was expected. M. Tiseza, in the Hungarian Chamber, in a carefully-prepared speech, defined Count Berchtold’s policy, declaring that Russia cannot be allowed to settle the Balkan question without Austro-Hungarian co-operation. Austria did not exert pressure on the Balkan Allies, as the latter were independent States and free to choose for war or arbitration. THE CZAR’S DILEMMA. Belgrade, June 20. The situation is critical owing to tho Czar’s dilemma in having to arbitrate on the basis of the Serbo-Bulgarian treaty, thus prejudicing the case against Servia, or on flio basis of equity, irrespective of the details of the treaty, thus prejudicing it against Bulgaria., *■] . * .J'