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Show THE AUSTRIAN WAR SCARE. The Vienna Tageblatt Insists that It Reported Re-ported the Emperor Correctly. Vienna, Nov. 17. At a meeting of the budget committee yesterday Count Kalnoky assured the-committee that the emperor's speech, referred to by the Tageblatt, ought to cause no uneasiness; that although tke emperor em-peror drew attention to the contradiction between be-tween the preparations for war and the talk of peace, the government hoped the problem prob-lem would find a peaceful solution. He announced an-nounced that the new commercial treaties would go iutu operation February 1, 18W. The Taref.latt, notwithstanding denial of its story published Saturday to the effect that the emperor had declared tbe European situation critical, insists that its report was strictly correct. This report was at the bottom of the panic on the bourse Saturday. Holders of stocks and bonds, fearing the emperor's words presaged war, mada a wild ruth to sell, and the result was a docline not equalled in many years. The Abend Po.t, having received instructions instruc-tions from the pi. me minister, issued a statement state-ment declaring there was no 1 ruth in the Tu'iiMaW $ Etory. The Toff.'o'i'tt says the language of the en:peror was drawn forth upoa the occasion of an audience granted to die president of a PoHsn club. It reiterates that m the conversation that ;hen took place the emperor em-peror used the words attributed to him by the Taijejhtt on Saturday, which iu substance sub-stance were that ''die famine which low prevails in Russia lias grtatly increased the chances of war." Kalnoky has announce 1 that the zolver-ein zolver-ein treaties would be- discussed by the Austrian and Hungarian delegations con-j con-j jinily. |