THE PAN-SERB IDEAL

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 5

THE PAN-SERB IDEAL

NEW HEIK'S POLICY. LONDON, June 2f>. Tin- Balkan crisis of HM2-13 hrouphi the Archduke a severe- disappointment. kits tbf; "Tiniof.." Anuria had a-spunied tirst that Turkey would clofr.it Srnia and ' Ucpondlj- that "Bulgaria in the second I j Ralknn wnr would overwhelm SfTvin. enabling Austria in cither case to intervciip and secure a protectorate over the! whole Serbo-Croatian race. These ideas place.d tbn -Archduke in lo Scrvia. and to the partisans of the Psui-St-rb ideal, lleuifo the i-onspiracv to \vliii-!i he was a victim was popsibly tra-erahle to that antacranisin. 'Hie new heir to the throne U not likolr to tread in his uncle's footstep*. The iendenry of Austria-Hungary will possibly Ik' in the direction of stagnation. Constitutional devclopinents are likely to he. steadier, and the dual system will maintain for some year? t'je ascendant-y it ha? hitherto acquired. A painful sensation was caused in all f-.iri'l(!S in London by news of tlif a?eassination. The deepest sympathy is felt for the aged Emperor, whom the hand of the assassin has apnin ailiieted. King George and the Kaiser have i»nt touching messages of oondoloncp. All court functions in London Ami the fetes at Kiel have bwni i-anrclloil. All Governments and lx-p.i',-: <.>{ Stat.-s are cnndolinir with the Emperor Fr.iiK-is .Toioph.