PLANS WELL LAID.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 125, 2 July 1914, Page 7

PLANS WELL LAID.

THE BOSNIAN MURDERS. . BOMBS ON RAILWAY LINE. THREE HUNDRED ARRESTS. VIOLENT ANTI-SERVIAN DEMONSTRATIONS. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. VIENNA, June 30. Comment has been aroused because, despite the bomb attempt, the streets were not cleared.

According to some accounts, the Archduke himself insisted that no special precautions should be taken. A section of the Press says that the visit was purely a military affair, and all the preparations were made by the military authorities. The''civil authorities were not even informed of the journey. A large sum of money was found in Prinzip's room. Several bombs were discovered on the railway from Serajevo, by which the Archduke had-intended to return. ACT OF ANARCHIST FOLLY. POLICE SYSTEM CONDEMNED. BELGRADE, June 30. The newspapers express the deepest indignation at the assassination, which they term an act of anarchist folly. Regarding the political aspects, they point out that the outrage is a consequence of the bad old Austrian .police system, and the lack of real liberty. Only such a system could breed fanatical criminals of this type. The Government has issued a statement expressing keen indignation g,t the crime, and protesting against the German Press seeking to inculpate Servia. OUTRAGES CONTINUE. SERVIAN FLAG BURNED. . SERAJEVO, July 1. Three hundred arrests have been made in connection with the alleged plot. Excesses against Serbs continue. Demonstrators smashed a window in the Orthodox Metropolitan's Palace, the broken glass Wounding the Servian Metropolitan. Three hundred students violently demonstrated outside the Servian Legation, and burnt the Servian flag. CROUCHING IN HORROR. CHILDREN LEARN SAD NMVS. VIENNA,. July 1. The Archduke's three children were staying at Chulmitz Castle, Bohemia, where the news arrived at noon on Sunday. It was kept from the children until the evening, when the Countess Chotek, the Duchess of Hohenberg's sister, informed them that their parents: had been suddenly taken away, and they must go to the chapel and pray When the children returned, it was impossible to hide the truth from them. Their religious instructor told thenij and they broke into convulsive weeping- . -

The children remained awake throughout the night, crouched close to one another, moaning oyer their terrible loss. They, will attend the funeral. "IMPOSSIBLE TO •LIVE;" SURROUNDED BY BOM£S. A WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY. (Received July 2,-8.55 a.m.) , VIENNA, July 1. Persons connected with the Archduke's suite state that the plot was so widespread that it was impossible for the Archduke to Bosnia alive! Two clockwork bombs were found under''his luncheon table. Another was found in the chimney in the room where the duchess was,, before joining her husband. A woman was caught in possession of several bombs. It now transpires that Prinzip is just ever twenty years of age r.nd liable to a death sentence. A TOUCHING REFERENCE. CONDOLENCE IN HOUSE OF LORDS "Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services. (Received July 2, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 1. In the House of Lords Earl Crewe, speaking to his motion of condolence in connection Avith the assassinations, said: '' When it happens that a married pair, united by the closest affection, do not Lave to undergo the agony of parting, but leave the world together, one. is almost tempted to modify the grief and pity so poignantly excited by such a tragedy as this, but the thought of their voung children doubly orphaned on the threshold, of fclieir lives, forbids Us to pursue such a reflection." : Lord Lansdowne said that the calamity was characterised by mor,e- horror and deeper pathos than those preceding 1 it. AUSTRALIA'S SORROW- * < (Received July 2,, 9,40 a.m.)-, MELBOURNE, July 2. ' Sir R. Munro-Fergiison, the GovernorGeneral, has cabled to' the King Aus-

tralia's sorrow and consternation in regard to the assassinations. SYMPATHY FROM NEW ZEALAND. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Press Association. Wellington, July 1. In connevtion with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, the Governor has sent the following cablegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies: — Myself, my Government, and the people of New Zealand wish to express our. deepest sympathy with his Royal Imperial and . Apostolic Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, at the terrible crime which has been . perpetrated, and tvhich we, in common with the whole world, view with Liverpool* ■