New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Turkey Approves Berlin's
Attitude Toward Will
sons War Aims
Austria's Entire
Cabinet Resigns
Dual Monarchy's Stand
Toward Peace Believed
To Be Involved

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5.-Ihe Central
Powers have come to an agreement on
peace terms to be offered Rumania,
saws dispatch from Berlin. The
probability of continued unanimity for
practical purposes between the four
powers was also added to by a speech
of the Turkish Foreign Minister,
Nessimy Bey, in which he said Turkey
was completely satisfied with the a.ti-
tude Of Germany, and Austria toward
the Wilson and Lloyd George war aims
statements.
A serious crisis has arisen in Vienna
however. The Cabinet has resigned.
While dispatches say the dissatisfac-
ton of Polish Deputies with certain
internal measures was the moving
cause, the question of the dual mon
archy's stand toward peace is also be-
leved to be involved.
A telegram from Berlin quotes the
"Boersen Gazette" as saying that as a
result of conferences held at Berlin
an agreement has been reached regard
ing the peace terms to be offered by
the Central Powers to Rumania. The
report is confirmed by the "Essener
Allgemeine Zeitung," which says that
Rumania can secure compensation in
Southwestern Bessarabia for the an
nexation of the province of Dobrudia
by Bulgaria. The newspaper suggests
that Rumania and the Ukraine make
common cause against the Russian
Bosheviki.
Turkey in Complete Accord
Turkey is in complete accord with
the attitude of Germany and Austria.
as expressed i'll the recent speeches of
the German Chancellor, Count Won
lIertling. and the Austrian Foreign
Minister, Count Czernin, Nessmy Bey
told the Chamber of Deputies yester-
day He also declared:
The Dardanelles will remain open
in the future to international traffic,
as in the past, and on the same con-
ditions."
The Turkish Foreign Minister said
great difficulties had arisen in conncc-
ton with the peace negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk, but that he had not lost
hope. While he was aware of the great
desirability OF concluding peace, he
SAID, I'VE never will conclude a peace
at any price"
Referring to the war aims speeches
CT President Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George, Nessimy Bey said
I'VE adhere to the standpoint that
the fate of national groups which were
not independent before the war cannot
be regulated except by means of in
stitutions created in accordance with
the constitution of each individual
country"
Austrian Cabinet Resigns
DR.. Won Seydlcr, the Austrian Pre-
mier, has rendered the resignation of
his entire Cabinet to Emperor Charles,
according to a dispatch from Vienna
lhe resignation of the Won Seydler
Cabinet, it is understood in Parlia-
mentary circles in Vienna, is due to
the opposition of Polish deputies
against special debates and the pro-
vsional budget. The opposition of the
deputies makes a majority for the
budget doubtful.
President Gross of the Lower House,
announcing the resignation, said that,
necessary to postpone temporarily the
sittings of the House.
The Cabinet of Dr.. Won Seydler,
which was formed last June, was re-
ported to have res igned during the re-
cent labor crisis in Austria Hungary.
This report, however, was not con-
hrmed.
Dr. Won Seydler broke the strike by
informing labor delegations on Janu-
ary 20 that it was the wish of the
Austrian Emperor to end the war at
the earliest possible moment by an
honorable peace. Other members of
his government promised labor and
military reforms, after which the
labor leaders ordered their followers
to return to work
A "Stcp-Gap" Cabinet
Tho Cabinet of DR.. Won Seydler was
OF a stop-gap, bureaucratic character,
organized after it had been found i'm
possible to form ministry which
could work with the Austrian Parlia-
ment on a positive programme of inner
reform and reorganization. The various
parties of the Austrian lower house
were so badly split on such questions
1ailcla that no prominent statesman
could be found to organize the minis
try.
Dr. Won Seydler was then selected by
the young Emperor to form an interim
ministry to carry on the government,
but without any definite, positive pro-
eramme, and did so largely by promot-
ing subordinate permanent officials of
lne bureaucrat type to be acting heads
OF the various departments.
In his address to Congress, in reply
70 which the speech of the Turkish
Foreign Minister was made, President
wilson said the Turkish portions of the
ottoman Empire should be assured a
secure sovereignty, but the other ma
tIonallties now under Turkish rule
should have unmolested opportunity of
autonomous development