HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 5

HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE.

| ARCHDUKE AND WIFE SHOT. MURDERED BY A SERVIAN YOUTH. A CAREFULLY PLANNED PLOT. | ANOTHER KAPSBURG TRAGEDY. il'.Y CAlil.K.-IT.KSS ASSOCIATION. -IU I'YU Rill I.) ' Received 10.1(1 a.m.) VIKNNA. -lune lis. Another tragedy wa- added to the long li.-l of disasters wind, has overtake,, the -Hapless I lap-burgs" to-day. when the An hiluke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Ihe Throne, and lii- wib. Hie Primes- Ilohcubcr"-. were shot (bad. The a-sassination- occurred dining the visit of Hie Archduke to Sarajevo. I-" "Id capita! ol 110-nia. and the evidence collected since tiie shooting goes to show that the deed wa- carefully planned by a baud of consphaiois. BOMB THROWN AT CARRIAGE. Tim Koval pair were driving through Hi" streets, w lien suddenly a bomb wa- thrown at (heir carriage. Tbe nii-sile missel iv mark, and exploded without causing any damage to the vehicle in- its occupants. The assassins Mere prepare,! for thi-. however, as no sooner wa- it apparent that the infernal machine had failed, than a shower of bullets was directed al I lie Archduke and bis v. i te. I'.oth were st n „.k at cb.se rang,-, and were so badly injured that they died w illlill a few minute-. The a-.-a-.-iii. who was arrested, proved to be a Sow ian student who had recently been banished from Hosiiia. ! An unexpl..,i,-I bomb wa.- found a few yards from Hie scene of ibe j assassination, indicating that a third attempt had been prepared in the event ~,f I the other- pro', ing unsuccessful. I ARCHDUKES LAST JOURNEY. A- Inspector-Hen, ral of the Mona roli\'s land and sea forces. Fram-is TVrdinaml voyaged aboard the Dreadnought Viribus I nit is from Trieste to Metcovic. j lie was welcomed al M,,-t.,,-. capital of I h-rz-gov ma. where, in deference to local susceptibilities in responding to ihe Mayor's address. |„. -poke part I v ill Herman, bul chiefly in Serbo-Cr0.,1 iau. He then proceeded to lli-l/a. hi- !r a.!i,u,irlci-. mar scrajev... with a view to attending the inaiiietn res in Hie mountains soul lowest of Ib-raji-vo. The lir-t attempt wa- made during the drive lo the reception at the Serajevo Town Hall. A compositor threw what 1- called a boltlc bomb, tilled with nails and lead tiling.-, bul it did not explode until tl a, bad passed. The explosion wa- very violent, and fragments of tin- bomb pi, reed the 1 iron shutters of many -Imps in (!,,- \i,initv. Twenty, including two members of Hie An bdiike - .- suite and several women and children, were slightly injur,,!.