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An unwelcome indication that Count Berchtold may be only playing

for an opening to launch some policy larger than has yet been thought of is to be found in the Reichspost. According to the Vienna, correspondent of the Times, the Beiehspost said that if the forthcoming con- versations did not end in the adoption of joint measures Austria-Hungary would be able with a clear conscience to decline all responsibility for the consequences. She will be obliged, in fact, " without further regard for foreign suscepti- bilities, to pursue with a free hand a policy in protection of her interests alone." It is certain, however, that no Turkish Government which consented to any decided act of foreign intervention could exist for a week.

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