TREMENDOUS OVATION.

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 June 1910, Page 5

TREMENDOUS OVATION.

AUSTRIA’S NEW PROVINCES. [OKU PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Received this day at 10.30 a.in. ‘VIENNA. Juno 3. 'flic Emperor is receiving tremendous ovations • u Ins triumphal tour through Bosnia .nd Herzegovina. VIENNA. May SI. Great enthusiasm and excitement have hocii caused in 1 »osnia-Horzogo v ina hy u report that tlin Emporur of Austria intends to raise it to the status of a kingdom, thereby re-establishing the kingdom destroyed by tho Turks in 1463. BosuiaHerzogovina, which had since the Treaty of Berlin in 1078 been occupied and administered by Austria-Hungary was in October, 1908, formally annexed to the Empire. its population is about 1,737. 900. Croato-Servians form the largest racial element in the population, but there are 549.000 Mohammedans and 334.000 Roman Catholics. Tho capital, Sarajevo, lias, a popfdatlon of 38,000. Bosnia was at first dependent on the Servian and Croatian kings, hut wets raised for .a time to a separate princinalitv, which reverted about 1339 to the Servian King Stephen. After jus death il was again independent, and continued to have its own rulers till the hitter half of the fifteenth in rpite. of the encroachments of the Turks, who at succeeded in incorporatin' l ' it in 1503. Iho Hungarians long disputed this appropriation.‘but the country was definitely reded to Turkey at the Peace of Carlovifz, 'n 1699. which was confirmed hy the Treaty of Sistovar in 1791.