30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 2

The demand of the Hungarian Opposition that Count. Burian shall

be succeeded by Count Andrassy as Austro-Hungarian Minister ' ef' Foreign Affairs, the bitter attacks on Connt Burian as being responsible for Rumania " going wrong," the corresponding attacks upon the Imperial Chancellor in Germany, not to mention such a . speech. as that of M. Lovaszy—all these things make us feel as i though we were looking at a portrait of ourselves as we were a year or more ago. The two sides engaged in the war have indeed changed positions. When our military preparations were quite incomplete-- ,incomplete,beea.use we were a peace-loving people who had refused to believe in war—our capricious and restless critics at home did not , assign all our troubles to their only true cause, which was our military inability at that time to enforce our word.. They held )lfr. Asquith responsible for this, Lord Grey responsible for that, and Lord, Haldane responsible for nearly everything else.