OBITUARY
COUNT AKHRF.NTIIAI, Pits* A*soriation-Ny Telegraph-Copyright. VIENNA, February 18. The Austria-Hungary Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count von Aehrenthal. took farewell of his colleagues and family in the afternoon, and was cheered b'v reading the Emperor Francis Joseph's letter decorating him and eulogising |,j s faithful and distinguished services. He died at 10 o'clock at night. Count Leopold Berthohl, rx-Ambaswi. dor nt St. Petersburg, will be Count von Aehrentbal's successor. He married the Countess Karolyi, daughter of a former Ambassador to England. ■ Count Aelirriith.il was Iwrn on S"p:embor 27, 1851. He was appointed Attache at the Austixi-Hungarian Kmba-w in Paris in 1677, and was transferred to Si. Petersburg in 1875. ||.i was iiiMniiiitod to the Foreign Office in Vienna in 1883. and was u-.rsiin scut to St. Petersburg in 1883. but was" recalled to the Foreign Office in 1894. He was npiminted Minister in Ihielxiroi in 1595, Ambassador in J-'i. IVlrrshu.-e. in IJS9. and President of the Common Council of Ministers in 1906.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15382, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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162OBITUARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 15382, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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