PRO-GERMANS DISTRUSTED

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13381, 8 January 1917, Page 5

PRO-GERMANS DISTRUSTED

BY AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN KING. MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN AUSTRIA. » UNRESTRICTED DEMANDS FOR PEACE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 6. Messages from Buda Pestli show that the belief in generally held that the fall of Count Tisa, Hungarian Premier, is inevitable. The Emperor Charles has decided to make a clearance of all his predecessor's confidential statesmen, who are so involved with the Germans as to endanger the independence of the monarchy. The King desires to rule constitutionally in co-operation with Parliament and in sympathy with the people. COPENHAGEN, January 0. A tcli-gram from Vienna to the Berlin newspaper Lokal Anzieger states that practically a new political crisis has arisen in Austria owing to the refusal of the Government to fulfil the late Emperor's promise to give Home Rule to Galicia. Herr Sylvester, President of the Austrian Parliament, has resigned, and there have been numerous changes in important administrative offices. Herr Kokolren, President of the Food Department, has been dismissed, and Baron Maccio and Count Forgaeh, two Under-Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, have resigned. Baron Maccio is principal Departmental chief to the Foreign Office, and Count Forgach is second chief. To the machinations of these men the war was largely due. Another significant move is the unmuzzling of the Austrian Socialists, who are now permitted even to demand the evacuation of allied territories in the west and in the south.