The contest of the nationalities in Hungary shows no symptoms
of abating. At the moment there is an anti- Magyar majority in the Croatian Diet, which the Hungarian Premier is resolved to overthrow. His latest move was to c,atise, the Croatian Diet to be dissolved on Thursday, thereby hoping to compel the Croatian delegates in the Hungarian Chamber to cease obstructing the Hungarian Authorisation Bill and leave Budapest for Agram. The Dissolution took place amid scenes of tumult and indignation and cries of "Down with the Magyar lackey ! " followed by shouts of "Long live the King ! " According to the Times correspondent in Vienna, the only lasting success that Dr. Wekerle seems likely to attain "is that of weakening a now hostile but professedly Magyarophil Croatian, party that hates Vienna, and of strengthening a not less hostile Croatian party that leans towards Vienna and hates Buda- pest." The most damaging criticism on:Dr. Wekerle'stactics comes from Count . Khuen-Hedervary, for twenty years -the Magyarising Ban of Croatia, who recently declared Dr. Wekerle's policy of repression to be hopeless, and to be vitiated by the fundamental Magyar mistake of regarding and treating the Croats as inferior beings. Simultaneously the political and economic discontent in Bosnia-Herzegovina . has, manifested itself in the programme formulated by a private Congress of -Serbs at Serajevo - demanding complete autonomy for the occupied provinces,. the 'election of a popular Assembly on the basis of universal suffrage with secret ballot, and government by Parliamentary majority. Here, however, it is hoped that the moderating influence of the head of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian 'Government, Baron de Burian, will be exerted to grant reasonable demands without impairing the central authority.
