An official French dispatch received in Washington May 22
announced that a decree had been issued in Vienna dividing Bohemia
into twelve district governments, with advantages to the Germans
which would reduce the Czech powers in the Reichsrat at Vienna
as well as in Bohemia itself. Martial law was proclaimed in some
parts of Bohemia.
The aspirations of the Congress of Oppressed Races of
Austria-Hungary, which was held in Rome in April, were indorsed by
Secretary Lansing in a statement issued May 29.
Disorders throughout Bohemia and the Slavic regions of
Austria-Hungary by the Poles, Slovenes, Czechs, and Slavs. Serious
political unrest throughout the Dual Empire. Prime Minister of
Austria, Dr. Seidler, resigns.
Austria and Germany fail to block an agreement regarding
disposition of Poland.