New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Americas Attitude Said to
Presage Fall of Cabinet
of Won Hussarek
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Official Press Bureau in u. S.
Tells Of Intrigues Used
to Embroil Races
tSpecict DispGtch to The Tribune,

Especial Dispatch to The Tribuno>
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-The an
nouncement by Secretary Of State Lam
sing Of Americas sympathy with the
aspirations Of the Slavs OF Austria
hungary, who desire their national in
dependence, in addition to moving the
Vienna government to employ every
representative messenger to crush the
rising of the oppressed nationalities,
caused the downfall of the Seydler
government, and will likewise bring
about the defeat of the Won Hussarek
Cabinet, according to statement is
sued to-day by Professor Voyslav NJ.
Yovanovitch, director of the Official
Serbian Press Bureau, on information
received from Geneva. The statement,
in part, follows:
Zone of the first results of the decla-
ration of Secretary Lansing, express
ing the sympathy Of the American gov
ernment with the national aspirations
of the Austrian Savs, was to cause
the Vienna Cabinet to redouble it's
efforts to crush the rising of the op-
pressed nationalites of the Dual Mon
archy. In doing so it had recourse
to the favorite Austrian eXpedient of
playing one race against another. 'Di
vide ct impera' was never brought to
the level of q science as it is in Aus
tria-Hungary to-day.
Tried to Win Croats Over
The Austrian Premier announced that
he proposed to solve the Southern Slav
problem in a "Croatian sense" he
hoped that by thus hattering the ma
tionalistic aims of the Croats he would
not only gain them over to the Austrian
camp, but would create breach be-
tween them and the Slovenes and the
Serbs But the attempt was too clum-
silly made to deceive any one and was
promptly denounced by the Croatian
Journal "Novine," one of the leading
newspapers of Agram.
"'The Germans it declares, are con-
tinuing their move toward Trieste, and
for their sakes the Croats must sacrl-
fee the Sovenes. AS reward for their
doing so the monarchy would solve the
Jugoslav problem in "Croatian sense"
The first absurdity of such a settlement
is that it is based on the hypothesis that
the Croats and the Serbs would ever
abandon the Slovenes.
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1.-THE martyrcom of this war has
strongly reinforced the idea of national
unity. and it is at the very moment this
idea has reached its eliminating point
that Austrian statesmen have chosen to
embark in the task of separating one
nation from the other. This solution.
coming from the Vienna government.
VIII satisfy no one. 1t is nothing less
than a Germano- Magyar condominium.
inns proposed solution of our national
problem IS a new piece of tactlessness
On tne part OF a reactionary govern
ment.'
The growth and volume Of the
Jugoslav movement began to create
alarm among the pan n-German clements
IN Austria. A huge pun-G erman dem
onstration was held in Vienna. In his
address of welcome to those taking
part in the anti-Slav demonstration,
Or. Weisskirchner, president of the
Vienna Municipal Council declared:
We are not threatened with vic
tory OF the eremy's arms, but by an
international calamity, brought about
by disloyalty and treason. The funda-
mental conditions of our existence are
the absolute alliance with the German |
Empire. on the one hand, and the |
establishment of international order,
on the other. Away with all attempts
to close the south to US. Let us give
everything for the defence of our
national military road toward our sea
ports. The German Empire fought
with US for Trieste, because it was
essential to the future Of the Central
Powers. Our blood has not been shed
in the many battles on the Carso and
on the Alps in order that we should
be cut off from the sea by Jugoslav
state
National Poet Expelled
"At the same time energetic meas
ures OF repression were Undertaken.
One of the first acts of the authori-
tise was to expel the Croatian national
poet Voynovitch from Prague. whittier
he had gone to attend Slav demon
stration In the national theatre of
that city, At the same time it was
forbidden to send copies of the 'Slo |
veneski Gospodar, the organ of DR..
Roroshetz, the leader Of the Southern |
Savs, to soldiers at the front. A few
days later martial law was proclaimed |
throughout the district of Gratz. Fully |
one-half OF all Jugo- -Slav territory is