ASSASINATED.

Waikato Times, Issue 12906, 29 June 1914, Page 5

ASSASINATED.

iiUtCIDOKB FERDINAND AND HIS WIFE. lIR-PRESUMPTI/E TO AUSTRIAN THRONE. Cable Extraordinary.—Press Association. —Copyright. Received June 29, S.oo a.m. LONDON, June 28. "Router's Viennv correspondent states uit Arctul'iko Francis Ferdinand, heirre,sumptive to the Austrian throne, id his wife, have been assassinated at Bp: "Serajevo. H .™ LAiER. ftP OF THE TRAGEDY. WbE*"" TWO ATTEMPTS MADE. "ROTTLE ROMR" THROWN. VKM'Y PERSONS INJI'REDT* Received i?!', 1.1") p.m.

A 1 K.WA, June 2H. As Inspector-General ol the Monjarchy's land and sea forces, Archduke Francis Ferdinand voy.iged aboard the .Dreadnought Viribusinitis from Trieste to M. •tcoxic. He was welcomed at Mostar, where, in deference to local susceptibilities, in .lesponding to the mayoral address, lie spoke partly in German but chiefly in Serbocrorn. He proceed to the arnix headquarters, 'joear Serajevo, to view the attendant nianocin res in the mountains to the south-west of St rait vo. Two attempts were math' t assassina.tion. The iirst was during the drive to the reception ,t tin- Serajevo Town Hall, when a compositor thieu what is called a "bottle bomb," Idled with nails and lead tilings. It did not explode until .the Archduke's car hail passed. The explosion was very \iolciit. fragments pierced the iron shutters ol many shops in the vicinity. Twenty, including many members of the Archduke's suite, and several women an 1 children, were slighth injured.

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Hi» I {oval Highlit s> was a man of Jiiindsruiie feature and splendid physique. Strength of character, so far as it is revealed by taking sides in political matters, is iaivl\, il ever, shown by the heir-apparent to a throne. Not sn .the Archduke I-1 amis I'Yrlinand. who. «bv a single action, fociissed iu an altogether unexpected light the attention Hot only of the dual kingdom, but also of the whole u orld. upon hiniseli. This was wllt'll he a' (Vpteil the I'l otectora te Ot the Austrian Catholic Schools' Association, wllicll Ids tul' Ms object tile llloivase of Roman Catholic inlltieiicc in (he schools of the Kmpire. This action, jit a lime w lien even effort was being made to bring about ;he amicable cooperation of the valued sections ot the JReichsi atli, was nn( onl\ unpopular, but was denounced as an interlereiice in controversial poll! iVs cout rary to all constitutional Usage. A menace to the

roll U try Was s, en in il. lur il w ;i•- said that millions of \u-ti i:ilis who regarded clericalism as i! n ■ greatest danger threatening the >« unll \ would ieei that the lut ui c Kmpei'or of Austria was prejud iccil against iln in. While such a statement could not he taken too seriously, if Was, lleVelt lleless, \\ i>lt II \ ot note that the Prince's partisanship mused a piopo-.il to lie brought (low 11 in the Low el House to abolish a ci rtaill paragraph in the penal code n licit ning tho punishiuent ot' otlences against the members ot the In11m■ ria 1 Validly. Admitting as the Abolitionists did. that tho Archduke had the same rights as Other people ,111(1 (111 right. therefore, to declare lor clericalism, they maintained that he 11111st lie content to lie opposed, like other people, with the sjmie weapons; hilt even though eleiiealisiu was embodied in his person, yet it could not be fought by re.is r in ol the law prohibiting any criticism on his person. The fe£ : proposal was not tarried, and the old ,;A custom which had I liCsill operat'on lur mer a century was not (■interfered with, Inn the significance of T the fact Cullld llul he denied. Mis Royal attitude was emiiient*,.lj understiindahli when it was ivniemr- be red that his mother was a member ul st devoted 11ulMa 11 ( atllolic fallliKiir'u|)e and he himself was ediii\ the Jesuits. 111-, Royal lliglirancis Ferdinand Charles Louis .Malic was the soil of the lute ike Charles I,ouis and Priucess ciade of Hourhoii, Sicily, and was f born on December IN, 18(33. p It is interesting to note that the present RnifMTor is Francis .loseph, who has had a reign of sorrow. Hungary was in a state ot rebellion when lie was crowned, which was quelled by the aid ; of llus.sta. His Italian dominions were saved by tho genius of General Ra- .£■' idetzky. The Emperor made strenuous !üß|obirt« to prevent the Crimean war, and liprefowd to join France and England. ig||j|ftor the Austi o-French war (18S9) ho |£>'.-"Was eompollod to sign the treaty of of Yillafranca, by which Iximpj'tttrdy was ceded to Italy. In 1806 ho sfrflost the duchy of Holstein, obtained by convention of Gasfein, and in the year, as the result of the war sjj§#ith Piusma, Venetia also. That year jjpiwtß fatal to the supremacy of Austria the contest Wing decided flavor of Prussia by the treaties of ||J9#ikolslnirg and Prague respectively. Bm Turk is] i provinces of Isosnia nnd IHHbkpkovina weie, by tho Berlin ConJKmras of 1878, placed under tho adminof Austrh-Ilungary, nnd anjiHtoed in j9OB. In 1854 the Emperor Joseph married the Princess l||Hi»lbeth Afuaho' Eugenie, daughter of |PP>o' .Quito Maximilian Joseph in Bata* flu||ti|io was murdered by an Italian at.Geneva in 1898. The death »|of the Crown Prince Rudolph made the flwwbike Fruncis Ferdinand (horn a nephew of the Emperor, the