Omaha daily bee., 1918-05-05
OPPOSITION MAY may
FORCE SEYDLER
into Retirement
Resignation Of Austrian Pre-.
mier Declared Inevitable, as
Majority in Reichsrath 0p-
posed to His Policy
(By Associated PreHs.)

London, May 4.-The Holland
News Bureau says, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company, that the resigna-
ton Of the Austrian premier, DR.. Won
Seydler, as soon as the emperor re-
turns, is unavoidable. 1t adds that
the parliament majority, consisting OF
Slavs, Czechs and Poles, has decided
not to listen to him as premier any
more.
The straits to which Austria has
been driven by the food situation is
indicated in dispatch from Vienna
via Zurich which says that DR.. Won
Seydler has been compelled to admit
that Austria is unable to feed the
populations of northern Tyrol and
northern Bohemia, and that he has,
therefore, consented that the former
be attached for provisioning purposes
tc Bavaria and the latter to Saxony.
This concession, the dispatch adds,
was wrested from him by leaders OF
the German parties after conference
lasting six hours. The Austrian
government yielded with the greatest
reluctance, for the political conse-
euences Of this concession may be
far-reaching.
Washington View.
Washington, May 4.-Press dis
patches from Amsterdam saying that
Emperor Charles was about to pro-
rogue the Austrian parliament, were
read with deep interest today by off,
cials here, who had expected some
such drastic action since the news
leaked out from Vienna Of the stormy
sessions of the Reichstrag and OF the
open defiance OF the government by
the elements in opposition.
The debates connected with the
Brest-Litovsk peace treaty were par
ticularly acrimonious and it appeared
that the government practically had
lost its majority when the Polish
delegates, desperately resisting the
secession of part of their provinces to
Ukrainia, joined with the Czechs and
Bobemians' who had long persistently
opposed the government because OF
the refusal to grant them national
unity.
The difficulties in the way of secur-
ing sufficient food for the population,
the only cause given in the Amster-
dam dispatch for the suspension OF
the Reichsrath, have created a aciitical
situation throughout Austria-Hun-
gary, according to advices received
here.
Slav Deputies Revolt.
The opinion here, however, is that
the food situation alone could not
Justify the government in dissolving
parliament. Czech papers predicted a
month ago that the Vienna govern
ment contemplated dissolution o.
the parliament and return to ths
absolutist era which prevailed during
the first three years of the war.
Ever since the convocation of thu
Reichsrath a year ago the Slav depu
ties have shown decided opposition tc
| the governments policies, hamperins
it in increasing the army and raising
loans. United action, however, was
lacking and the government was able
to retain majority in parliament,
Information reaching here lnow
however, is that the Czech, Jugo-Slay
and Polish deputies have formed Z
compact block to oppose the policie:
of the German-Austrians. The ad
hesion OF the three elements into .
cohesive group would give them q
majority and fear of this is believed
| to be the real reason why Emperor
Charles has ordered parliament dis
| cotyad