The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-28
ALL AUSTRIA'S FAULT,
SAYS COUNT KAROLYI
Leader Of Hungarian Indepen-
dents Blames Her Policy
for Servian Clash.
MANY IN Z. 8. MAY GO
Austrians and Servians Ex-
pected to Join Colors
If Called.
MANY IN Z. 8. NAY GO

About TO return 10 Budapest. his Afneri.
can tour cut short by the Austro- Servisn
situation, Count Michael Karolyi, leader
OF the Independent party In Hungary.
yesterday criticised Austria's policy to-
ward the Balkan States, while confessing
that, since war seemed TO have come. Hun
garians would Loyalty support the en- =
pire
"tf Austria had pursued n policy of d.
rectiy helping the Balkan countries, "
Austria had in the past made It a point
to be actively their friend this war would
not confront u.s." the Hungarian said with
vehemence. Since II has come OF course
all Hungarians will support the empire
and Internal differences will be dismissed
while the empire Ia imperilled.
~ have almost no information about
the state Of affairs at home. As for the
outlook In the war all / can say IL We
must hope for the best; for an outcome
favorable to the empire.
AS for tho loyalty OF the many Serbs
within Austria Hungary II ia hard To
say. There again we must hope that they
will take the Austrian side But the Aus
trian policy toward the Balkan countries
mas been wrong all wrong"
Count Karolyi will sail tomorrow on
La Savoe He spoke yesterday afternoon
at a big meeting Of the Hungarian Verho-
way Sick and Death Benevolent Association
in passac. The meeting elected him homo
rary president OF an alliance to which
20. 900 Hungarians in this country belong.
Also SIS 900 was pledged on the spot "a
aid Count Karolyi's faction in Hungary
Alexander Konta bitterly attacked the
Servian policy in the past ''The war
makes unit of Hungarians and Aus
trians" said Mr.. konta- For five years
Servia has menaced the empire and Il
mas been constant drain upon Austria
Hungary to keep an army in readiness 10
deal with Servian treachery.
The American press seems TO me 10
he largely Influenced against Austr1a-Hun-
gary | don't know why this should be
so. but the feeling apparently exists. II
is most unjust The Servians are cut
throat race-one needs only 10 look al
/ their history TO realize that"
The same feeling that the American
/ press is rather generally against Austria
was expressed at the Austro- Hungarian
/ Consulate, "a State street. There IL was
/ explained that no notification OF war being
3 declared had been received. nor had no
tice to call upon army reservists in this
| country arrived from the Austrian Am.
| bassador. Dr. Dumba-
Natives Of Austria Hungary in the
/ United States number more than 5000.
600. OF these all able bodied men between
/ the ages OF 10 and AZ are supposed "a
answer the empires call for reserves
] lnere IL no ConpuIslOn ABOUT IT,
For reservists responding TO a calf there
/ is free transportation to Austria mot back
| here) and soldiers pay OF about zehr
heller 1.-TWO cents) a day. food and allow.
ances furnished. II he leaves family
here without support that is no concern
OF the old country.
! Accordingly perhaps 100000 natives OF
Austria Hungary here ought TO respond Ia
| the reserve call. The actual number that
would answer such call was though,
| yesterday TO be not more than $4,000 70
! 10000 The Servians here believe tina,
/ the many American Serbs who were born
/ in Austria-Hungary will go over to fgh,
| for Servia II they go at all.
The Greek Consul-General. n. y. Bo-
tassi, said yesterday that he expected that
/ II his country Joined the war on Servia's
behalf fuzzy az many Greeks would ga
over TO fght as left here for the recen,
Balkan conflict. For that $4,000 Greeks
went home.
! Paul VI. Pavlovitch. in charge OF the
| Servian Consulate. at 443 West Twenty
second street, said that 5000 Serbs wen,
over to fight in the Balkan war. Only
about 1000 Serbs In this country are ma
tives Of Serva he said. and there are
somewhere around 100, 900 American Serbs
who are natives OF Austria. These he
believes Will nearly all espouse Servia $
cause.