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Show . ' . - . i Premier von Seydler Is Empowered to Adjourn Ad-journ Parliament and to Render impossible Any Future Activities. FOOD SITUATION IS AGAIN SERIOUS Military and Political Situation in the Dual Monarchy Reaches a Climax; Riots Occur All Over the Country. AMSTERDAM, May 4. Emperoi Charles of Austria has empowered the Austrian premier to adjourn parliament and forthwith inaugurate meusurcs tc render impossible the resumption of tti activities, a Vienna dispatch says. A statement published in Vienna in dicates that the closuro of parliament is duo to tho seriousness of the food situation. The statement, gays: ' "The government will devote its en. tire strength to the economic problem and will try to create conditions required re-quired to enable the population to hold out." CONDITIONS SAID TO BE SERIOUS. A Vienua dispatch says that the Austrian Aus-trian premier, Dr. von Seydler, speak, iug at a conference of party leaden declared that the serious economic aud food conditions made it. imperative for the present government to bo spared parliamentary .criticism. He, therefore, there-fore, demanded that the proposed sit tings of parliament bo postponed, add ing that unless the party leaders took this step the government would pre vent the sessions forcibly. Apparent!; this conference, the date of which is not given, was held before the emperor acted. During the discussion of revising the constitution on tbo basis of national autonomy, Premier von Seydler an. nounced that in Bohemia the government govern-ment would speedily issuo regulations providing for the appointment of administrators ad-ministrators for districts inhabited by distinct nationalities. WARNING SOUNDED BY VON SEYDLER. Premier von Seydler sounded a warning warn-ing against inciting nationalities against each other. He then said; "Our entire military and political situation has reached a climax. The next few months will bring a big decision. de-cision. 1 am firmly convinced that the decision on the battlefield will bo in favor of Austria and her allies. "Our economic, especially our food, conditions arc very BeriouB, but they arc not at all desperate. To hold on now to a final, happy decision Is the vital question for the state. Jt therefore there-fore is necessary that, unhampered by parliamentary confusion, the government govern-ment be left in a position to devoto all its strength to these tasks." The premier then recommended thi postponement of parliament. Austria has been deep in difficulties both political and economic, for mort than a year, and it has been an oec secret that Emperor Charles was de sirous of bringing about peace, his ef forts io this direction having occasion ally aroused criticism in Berlin. .In the last few months there hav( been insistent reports that the fond sit (Continued on Page Fourteen.) AUSTRIAN EMPEROR ! FEARS FDR HIS CROWN (Continued from Page One.) uation in Austria is growing desperate. It has been represented that, except for ; the favored classes, the people were re-' re-' ceiving barely more than enough food I to avert actual starvation. The political situation also has grown disturbing in the last few months. ! There have been riots in various parts of the country, and among the southern t Serbs a revolutionary movement has j been in progress recently. |