ENEMY COUNTRIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 24 October 1916, Page 5

ENEMY COUNTRIES.

MURDER OF AUSTRIAN PREMIER

BELIEVED TO BE PART OF GREAT

PLOT

1 ROME, Oct. 23. Grave riots in Vienna iollowed the!

anurder of the Premier, Count Stuergkh,

.and the police and troops were unable • to stem the revolt. Wholesale arrests

■of Polish, Bohemian, and Croatian leaders have commenced, the authorities believing that, the assassination of Count Stuergkh is pai)t of a great plot against the Government The Giornale d'ltalia

states that

Adler is neither an anarchist nor a

pariah. He acted from political motives, either to avenge the treatment of Bohemians or as a protest against the fatal policy which is conducting the Empire to ruin/ LONDON, Oct. 23. Count Stuergkh was an impecunious Styrian nobleman of limited intelligence. He owed his political position to a man named Singer, the son of a provincial Rabbi, who was attached to the Austrian Premier's office and has controlled the secret press fund since 1904! Singer used the fund to overthrow five successive Premiers, until he' was regarded as the most influential personage in politics. l About 1910 Singer secured the directorship of the Landed Credit Bank at a salary of ten thousand a year, with the opportunity of making a huge fortune by investments. Thereupon he arranged with his friends that Stuergkh should become a Minister, and, later on, Premier. Stuergkh managed to hold his office, despite many vicissitudes, including a 3ong period of blindness. : .'■'....

Private information received in London last week stated that Singer was using his influence to destroy Stuergkh ss he had destroyed other Premiers, on the ground that the Reichsrath should be convoked. NE\V YORK, Qct. 23. Berlin despatches assert, that Adler is insane, and point out that his sister lad been an inmate of an asylum for a decade.

(Times Service.) LONDON, Oct. 22

Mr Cur tin writes that he is convinced Herr Liebkneeht does not represent the Social '. Democratic Party, which is pro-war. Even if they were doxibly numerous their votes would be worthless against the power of the Kaiser's tool, Herr yon BethmannHollweg, backed by the Federal Council and the military machine, which, though damaged, is still the mightiest in the world. The Social Democrats ■would never/have power to end the war.