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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 23 October 1916, Page 7

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iBITISH ANB CONTINENTAL

AUSTRIA^HUNGARY

MURDER.OF COUNT. STUERGKH

BY CABLE —BRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRISHT.

(Main Service.), (Received Oct. 23, 11.30 a,m.)

LONDON, Oct. 22. "^Newspapers point out that the Aus■'trian Lower House has been closed -since -the eve of the Avar. Various .parties had been clamoring for its re- , opening, Jbut Count Stuergkhs was ol>- •. dui-ate, pleading the necessity for . secrecy j leaving national affairs to 'Ministers of the Crown. The virtual mon-existence of the Austrian Parliajiient has placed the empire under Hungary's rule. 'Count Stuergldis was (completely overshadowed by Count ' Tisza ; the latter throughout""speaking -without- constitutional warrant in the name of the whole empire. It is sigaiificant that the* Hungarian Opposirtion has been demanding the reopening of the Austrian House of Deputies, .■and the position is critical, because in 1917 the famous Ausgleich, or compact .lietwjeen the two countries, must be .renewed" or terminated. Austrian anvt'agonism to German overlordship is daily growing, but Stu.ergkhs' mainten\ance of drastic censorship has muzzled ho:fa tho press and the public. HOME, Oct. 22. ■ The Messagero's Zurich correspondent states that ;fche situation is grave in Vienna. Martial law has been proclaimed. .; The shooting of Count Stuergkhs is regarded in Rome as a sign of Austria's It is thought ■ it may have an important effect on the continuation of the war. 1 (Received* Oct. 23, 11.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM,, Oct. 22. When shots were fired, a number of ' German officers, with drawn swords, . j-.ushed; at Count Stoiergkhs' assailant, ' - wh9, tmresistingA was handed to the •; police. He said: "I will account for 'this before.the Court." He is publisher 'of a Socialist newspaper, editor of an.other, arid jaecretaa-y! of the Social Democratic Tarty. The Wiener Allegmeine Tageblatt ■states that Count Stu.ergkhs was dining at an "hotel-in company ; with Baron Aehrerithalj- brother of the former Foreign Minister. His assailant, Dr. "EriedKeh Adler, was the son of a Reichsdag Deputy. .-■ Dr. Adler was ' seated three. tables away, when suddenly he jumped. up and moved -to 'St-nergkhs'■• table and lir-ed. Aehreiithnl,who wf>s. hit in the f^^ 4- hv sl->^+, cau^rh Stuergkhs a s he fell. The assail! ant has-long been considered eccentric. Tittprvy he .opposed the.majority of the Socialist Party.'