The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-05
RESlGNATI0N0F
AUSTRIAN CHIEF
ISUNAVOIDABLE
Dispatch Says Won Seydler's
Must Quit When Emperor
Returns From Front
HUN PARLIAMENT STOPPED
Emperor's Order Will Be Follow
ed BY Forcible Measures to
Prevent Renewal =
(By Associated Press)

London, England, May A.
The Holland News Bureau says,
according to an Amsterdam dis
patch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company that the resig-
nation of the Austrian Premier,
DR. Won Seydler, as soon assthe
Emperor returns is unavoidable.
Austria Hungary supplies some Of
the most important items Of the cur
rent news, with a critical economic and
political situation officially conceded
to be developing at; home just as her
armies at the front are apparently
about to be launched in a new attack
on Italy. .',-.. ....,'' 'o.., .'.- -
The crisis in Vienna is; marked, by
the dismissal of the Austrian. parlia-
ment by the emperor's order and the
declaration that forcibTe measures
would be taken to make a. resumption
Of it's sessions impossible. A. state
ment issued makes it clear the gov
ernment was embarrassed by. the .d1-
visions in the legislative body over the
grave food situation and the various
racial grievances in the Austrian body
polite and desired a free hand in the
next fe wmonths. %, 'n :;.r.'o,.,. ~ III.
Charles to Front :, :, -. r.
Meanwhile Vienna dispatches, have
reported Emperor Charles leaving for
the front and have announced greatly
increased activities along the Austro--
Italian lines. The Rome official state
ment does not give like picture Of the
front line activities. but records in
tensive aerial operations with the en-
tente airmen bringing down fourteen
enemy machines.
The German offensive in Flanders
has been held up now for five days.
General Won Arnim evidently has
been forced into this inactivity by
the severity Of his losses and the
time necessary to marshal new forces
for a fresh blow. -,
Concededly, the enemy has fresh
troops for a greater thrust, If he
thinks it advisable to employ them
here. -
One such hint of an impending
thrust developed Saturday morning,
whe nthe German artillery began
violently to pound the Franco-Britlsh
line from Locre to south OF Ypres,
where his main effort Of April %
was made. The bombardment was not
speedily followed by an attack. .',''
Allies Strengthened
There has been Strengthening OF
the allied defense at important points
along the northern and southern sides
of the Lys salient. The French have
thus operated successfully in the locre
region. which is one of the main objec-
tive points of the Germans, as an ap-
proach to Mont Rouge, and the Brit
ish on Friday night strengthened their
lines in the vicinity of Hinges, north
west of Bethune. H..
The Somme front has been threat
ening to break out into it's former
furious activity for several days past,
but aside from the recent thrust by
the French which gained them com
manding ground in the Avre sector
southeast of Amiens, and similar op-
erations by the British around Villers-
Bretonneaux, just north, the fighting
has been left almost entirely to ar
tillery. Big guns are still booming
threateningly in the Avre region and
elsewhere around the great Montdidler
salient. .%.g.
In Palestine, the British have again
defeated the Turks in engagements IN
the vicinity of the river Jordan. At
tacks by the Ottoman troops On two
successive days were beaten off with
heavy losses to the enemy. The British
took more than 300 prisoners.
Dispatches from Paris announce an
other of the German long range guns
engaged in bombarding the French
capital has been put out of action
through direct hit by the French ar
tillery.