TRAGEDY OF AN EMPEROR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 8

TRAGEDY OF AN EMPEROR.

FBAITCIS JOSEPH HEAUMBS HE HAS BEEN DECETVIIk CHANGED POPULACE. - Quoting the Vienna correspondentV the "Giormle dT-fcalia," telegrams'"rem Rome state ihhat Count Berohtold was B compelled to resign as the result of ""» etornry interview with the Emperor Francis Joseph. The Emperor reproached the ' Count with having deceived him as to the cot " sequences of the ultimatum cent by Servia in declaring that Russia wonld not intervene, and that in any case Italy would join her Allies. ■ The rumour, adds the current in Vienna that the ir<*apittina 1 "''"'" of Count Berclhtold will shortly be f«J. lowed by that of Herr yon Bethnaiß. Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor., .' LOVE TURNED TO HATE. The "Matin" publishes an acoouEt of the visit to Vienna of a special coirfe. pondenrt who wished to "see the Empe«i Francis Joseph. He says: — "Gone is the former deep adoration of tthe people whfcfh was displayed at ewery appearance of 'tihe Emperor; ertniX guiehed is the spontaneous enthusiasm which was mamfeßfced at the BightYef: the monarch; ended are the battles -in the streets bom of the desire to- an. proach him more closely; finjßhed ■■■'an. the cfheens and cries of joy whiofc only a little white ago were raised, on *jfc passage by a delirious crowd BW*ri»ja» round the aged sovereign. ' "To-day aH is void, official, icy. still has an escort, it is composed «f plain-ckrthed policemen, or women sM mothers in mourning. These sfl«i_t demonstratione will soon give way. 7 ? t« hostile cries, the forerunners of tin dowafiaH." AFRAID. "V "Francis Joseph is afraid; he W.»»^ 7 P'-' to earth at Sahonbrunn. went thither for leasons of bemiUx; ay« he lives there as a measure of tion. Francis Joseph goes in fear of fc Kfe. The Sarajevo outrage had alnarir steben ham greatly; the cries of th ■ wounded, the death-raittie of the dyiat tbe team of the widows and mothoa have completed the work. 'The fact ie Use Slavs are no loa* the only enemy *o ihe feared. ■ -IW,:Caecteand Hungarians are . uimiujjfc The former are openly demanding ■ ~-th .realisation of their. legitimate -mVajasMlj tions. .- --■ "The Hungarians for their beginning: to grasp thart they Save tijjj% tricked." . - -~* — .Ji.