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wind not only the many attempts which have been made upon his own life, one or two of them very nearly successful in their malign purpose, but must have likewise recalled in the very first moments of his anguish the memory of the tragic end of the Crown
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The Archduke FERDINAND WAS a nephew of the EXTEROR, and was bora in 1868, He married in 1900 the Counters Crozer D CHOTEOWA at Wognen. This being a mar ganatic marriage, the AucHDUKE was CHAMPAGNE required in accordance with the Family Sta
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A jeweller entrusted a Chinese gold- smith with a quantity of gold, a diamond, poris, etc., to make into ornaments, and inter discovered that the goldsmith had absconded with the articios.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 30TH, 1914.
ASSASSINATION OF AUSTRIAN HEIR AND HIS CONSORT.
OUTCOME OF PAN-SERVIAN AGITATION IN BOSNIA.
DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}.
VIENNA, June 28th...
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, while driving in the streets of Sarajevo (Bosnia) were assassinated
SARAJEVO, June 29th, Two attempts were made on the lives
tutes of the House of Habsburg to renounce all rights of succession to the Throne of Austro-Hungary for the children born of the marriage. It may be remembered, however, that some protest was raised in Hungary to this renunciation on the ground that inasmuch as the “Family an aggregate tounge of 91,706 Since of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the date mentioned a steamer of 1,844 his Consort. The first attempt took Statutes of the House of Habsburg did tons has been added to the fleet.
place during a drive to a reception in the Town Hall. A compositor threw a not figure in the national code of the Kingdom of Hungary and had mover
The commission of the sloop Clio, Combomb, which did not explode, however, been sanctioned by either of the houses mander Colin Mackenzie, on the China of the national legislature at Bada | Station, will expire in October next. At until the car containing the Archduke Pest, which were, indeed, wholly ignorant the same time the commission of the sloop had passed. Two members of the suite of their character, they could not be Cadmus, Captain Maurice 8. Fitz and about half a dozen of the crowd regarded as bearing upon the situs manree, the senior officer on the Yangtze, were, however, injured,
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HONGIONG, JUNE 30, 1914.
FEw, monarchs have suffered more at the hands of the assassin than the venerable Emperor FRANCIe Joanru L, Emperor of Austria and Apostolie King of Hungary. and the deep sympathy of the whole civilised world will be extended to him in his latest grief, recorded in the telegrams we publish to-day Words Fail adequately to express the horror and detastation which all sane people must feel on reading the details of the atrocious and cold-blooded crime committed in the Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the alleged interests of a political ngitation by a mere youth scarcely of anage to have any political convictions at all. Though he has denied having accomplices, the particulars given in the telegrams make it certain that the dastardly crime was the outcome of a con spiracy, and while it is too soon yet to speculate upon the political consequences, it is manifestly possible, if not extremely probable, that the motive of this fiendish outrage will lead in the first place to gravé trouble between Austria and Servia, and there can be no talling where it will end. « Horrible! horrible! I am spared nothing are reported to be the first words of the venerable Monarch on being informed of the tragedy. The Emperor FRANCIS Josera I. is now in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and in the sixty sixth year of an eventful and illustrious reign, and the atro cious crime must have instantly called to his
The Archduke was not hurt, and con- tinued on his way to the Town Hall, and then proceeded to tour the town. Bubse- quently a High School student fired two Before Mr. Melbourne, at the Magi shots from a Browning pistol, mortally
wounding the Archduke and his Consort,
THE EMPEROR'S GRIEF.
When the Emperor of Austria was informed of the tragedy, he exclaimed, Horrible, borriblo I am spared nothing His Majesty is stricken with grief, but is bearing up well.
SEQUEL TO A PAN-SERVIAN AGITATION.
VJENNA, June 29th.
It is reported that a Pan-fervian agitation began in Bosnia when the news of the impending visit of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand was first announced, Attempts were made to persuade the Archduke to give up the visit, but he was determined to go.
TELEGRAMS.
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CHINA SERVICE.
THE RUMOURED MARCONI CONTRACT
AN OFFICIAL, DENTAL-
PEKING, June 20th
The Director-General of Telegraphs states, through the Peking Gazette, that the reports of a contract with the Marconi Company are unfounded.
A QUEUE QUESTION.
PEKING, June 29th. Mr. Ariga has handed the Fresident a pro-memoria against coercive measuree in the matter of the quote cutting ordi- nance. The President has referred the matter hack to the Minister of the Interior.
HU LU TÃO A TRADING PORT.
PERING, June 29th. The Japanese Shun Tien Jih Poo reports that the construction of Hu Lu Tao as a trading port with the aid of
COMPETENCY OF COURTS.
In certain Servian quarters the Arch-American money is impending. duko was regarded as one of the greatest opponents of the Pan-Servian movement. It is expected that the crime will add
PEKING, June 29th. There are growing dificulties in the
who were conveyed wito all expedition to to the ill-feeling between Austria and conflict over the competency of the
tracy yesterday, two Chinese wore charged with trespassing on the premises of Messrs. H. Stephens & Co., commission agents of No. 16, Queen's Road Central. Konak, where they expired in a few The prosecutor said the men caused minutęs.
The first shot struck the Duchess great annoyance, and kad no business at
while the second the place at all. The first defendant said the abdomen, the o the place first
struck the Archduke in the throat, The Duchess severing the great artery. fell unconscious on her husband's knees.
The assassins were arrested, and were nearly lynched.
to
the second man alleged he was there to see
friend. They were fined Bö cach,
·A·
report was freely circulated In Shanghai on the 24th inst., says the NC Daily News, to the effect that an arrest, or arrests, had been made in connection with the Neumann murder case. No official confirmation of the report could be gained, but it seems that the rumour was
An unexploded bomb was found a few yards from the scene of the assassination, and this is believed to indicate that a third attempt had been prepared in the
THE ASSASSIN'S MOTIVE.
The assassin is a Servian student,
be Interrogated, named Prinzip. declared that for a long time be had tended to kill some eminent personage, from Nationalist motives. He denies
based upon inquiries at present being event of the others being unsuccessful. made in a certain quarter. The report - The Emperor of Austria, who has been twenty-seven years of age, and has always was to the effect that some of the jewel-base been a favourite of his Imperial great lary stalen from 14, Astor Road had been at Ischl since Saturday, is profoundly undle. In a book written some ten years traced to Nanking, and that a woman, distressed, and is preparing to return
find this reference to the EMPEROR'S afterwards arrested by the police there, immediately to Vienna, fondness for the new Hair Presumptive was believed to be more or less concerned i "HIS MAJESTY likes well, indeed, the in the case, or in the disposal of the boldness and ardour the lad displays for jewellery.
uttermost The all physical exercises.
There is a very clever set of thieves ho wishes for him is that he should grow who work the confidence trick in Hong up a frank, brave, honest man, so as to
kong
ng with pronounced success, - usually become in time a good Monarch, and mean-
on unsuspecting and gullible women. while the boy is happy, full of fun and merry The police have for the past few months boving accomplices. pranks, devoted to his gentle mother, whom constantly received complaints of The compositor whe threw the bomb is he treats with unconscious ebivalry, proud victimisation in this particular way, and named Gabrinovic. He declares that he of his dashing, splendid-looking father the intest victim is a Chinese married
received the bomb from Anarchists in (since deceased), and seeing in the EMPEROR woman living in Amoy Lang. She was himself the embodiment of all human per approached in Queen's Road East, asked Belgrade whose names he did not know, faction." The Archduke CHARLES FRANCIS to change a number of notes, and con. He also denies having any accomplices. married in 1911 ZITA, Princess de Bour-sented, handing over a valuable gold When she got to the bangle as surety BON de PARME. This is not the occasion to
shop she discovered that money changers dwell upon the
grave questions which are
while there was one genuine note on the expected to confront the successor to the
top, the rest was nothing but worthless presont octogenarian Monarch, and the pre-aper vailing hope will be that under the guidance of the venerable EMPEROR he may win for himself a place in the affections of the proples over whom us is destined to rule, so that the shadows which darken the future may dissappear and the Dual Monarchy ba strengthened, and consolidated under his rule.
The typhoon was reported by the Manila Observatory yesterday morning to be EN.E. of Aparri, moving NW or N.N.W.
A seafaring Filipino, employed on the Albany, now at Kowloon Dock, was found dead in his yuarters on the vesmi on Sunday,
Chinese was found under the bridge over Conduit Road with his throat cut He had apparently committed suicide. The man presented the appearance of a mendicant.
Captain Gilroy, the master of the Namang, has complained to the police. that some person purloined a long telescope, valued at $26, from his cabin on the vessel.
It is believed that the thief who stole a Chinese dagger from the Paris Army Museum on June 1st is a Chinese actuat cd by patriotic motives, the dagger Laving once been the property of an Emperor.
A Chinese who was charged by Revenue Officer Knight with the unlawful posses sion of Staels of prepared opium was remanded by the Magistrato yesterday. The man was arrested on the Prays, and the opium, it is alleged, was found tied round his legs.
The departure of Brigadier-General Cooper, CB, M.V.O., D.S.0., from Tientsin on June 12th was marked by the finest tributes that could be paid to any man, says the Peking and Tientsin Tiners General Cooper has been in com- mand of the British forces in North Chinn for four years, and has shown much skill and ability as an organizer and leader. Long before the time for the departure of the morning mail train, a crowd of prominent residents gathered in the precincts of the station. The 38th Sikhs acted as the guard of honour, and there were American, German, French, Japanese and Italian contingents on parade, while the Chinese were repre- sented by a contingent from the forces in the Native City. - After taking leave of their private friends, General and Mrs. Cooper boarded the train, which steamed out of the station amid scenes of the utmost enthusiasm, the bands playing the National Anthem and Auld Lang Syne"
NEW CHINESE MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN.
MR. ALFEED BLE APPOINTED. Mr. Alfred Eze has been appointed Chinese Minister in London. His selec tion (says the U. Daily News corres pondent at Peking) neots with the cordial approval of Sir John Jordan, British Minter in Peking, and with that of the British Government,
Mr. Sze has of late boen Master of Ceremonies at the President's Palace. He would already have been appointed Chinese Minister in Washington, bad be not been the victim of the old Parlia ment's spite against the President and
all his nomineca k
LINER ON THE ROCKS OFF LONDONDERRY..
NO PANIC AMON..... PASSENGERS.
LONDON, June 20th.
Servin
A number of political arrests have been mado at Sarajevo in the last few days..
THE GERMAN EMPEROR
INFORMED.
Supreme Court and the Chancery Court. FENG KUO CHANG IN PEKING.
PEKING, June 29th. Feng Kuo Chang has arrived at Peking. for a stay of a fortnight. He will take, part in the deliberations on the forma The Kaiser received the nows aboard tion of the new military organisation. the Meteor, while racing, from a despatch bout. His Majesty immediately returned, and will leave for Berlin to day.
KIEL, June 29th.
EUROPEAN SERVICE.
AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE · AND CONSORT ASSASSINATED.
BERLIN, June 28th.
The yacht racing will continue, and the British ships will remain according YOUTHFUL STUDENT'S MAD DEED. to the programme until Tuesday, but some of the festivities will be cancelled,
FUROPE PROFOUNDLY MOVED.
LONDON, June 29th. The pews of the assaminations created the most profound sonsation throughout Europe, and the Court will go: into for the Archduka for a week.. The State Bull, which was to take place at Buckingham Palace on Monday, has been postponed.
mourning
THE NEW HEIR TO THE THRONE.
The new
Heir Presumptive is the Archduke Charles Francis Joseph, a nephew of the deceased Archduke.
Tho Heir to the Austrian Throne, H.R.H. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and bis Consert, while on a tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina, were mortally shot at Serajewo by an individual who pressed against the carriage.
LATER.
When the Archduke was making his way in an open carriage to the Town Hall at Serajewo, a bomb was thrown into the carriage, which the Archduke pushed aside with his arm, whereupon it exploded, wounding several of the aides- de-camp, who rode in the following carriage. The Archduke continued his way to the Town Hall, and on the sturu a high school student, seventeen years of age, named Printitch, apparently of Serb nationality, first shot the Archduke through the head with a Browning pistol. A second shot was fired which passed through the body of his Consort (the Duchess of Hohenberg),
THE ALBANIAN SITUATION.
ANOTHER FRUITLESS CONFERENCE.
Durazzo, June 29th. Owing to the insurgents' request for the despatch of a British negotiator, the A message from Londonderry states prince of Albania, after conferring with Troubridge, sent Colonel that the Anchor Line steamer California, Admiral the Phillips from New York, is stuck fast on
Vessels are rocks near Tory Island standing by te render assistance. There Saturday afternoon. is no panic among the passengers. The maintained their demands, particularly immediately for Schönbrunn. weather is enim, but foggy.
THE IRISH NATIONALIST
VOLUNTEERS.
LONDON, June 9th. An Irish Volunteer Aid Society has been formed at Dublin, to support the Parliamentary Party in securing the final enactment of the Home Rule Bill and to maintain National Volunteers in full force to keep civi), order throughout Treland
The Provisional Committee of the Society includes Colonel Daysell, Sir Thomas Myles, and Sir John Lynch.
Tho Times correspondent at Dublin states that the National Volunteers announce that a Defence of Ireland Fund to purchase arms will be opened through- out the country on the 12th July
IMPERIAL TRANS-ANTARCTIC
EXPEDITION.
GENEROUS DONATION,
LONDON, June 29th.
Sir James Caird has donated £24,000 to the funds of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition.
Both died while on the way to the
Konik.
The aged Emperor Francis Joseph is The Colonel returned to Duruzzo OR
distressed and left Ischl The insurgents deeply
that for a Mahomedan Bovereign, and the conference was regarded as without result.
BRITISH OLYMPIC FUND.
MELBOURNE, June 29th The Commonwealth has contributed $1,000 to the Olympic Games Fund.
THE GRAND PRIX.
PARIS, June 29th. The result of the race for the Grand Prix is as follows:-
Sardanapale La Farina Durbar LL
Twelve ran; won
neck, four leugths separating second from third
THE MURDER OF AN INDIAN AT TAIKOKTSUI
At the Magistracy yesterday, before Mr. CD. Melbourne, three Chinese were charged by Sergt. Brown with the murder of the Indian watchman, Bhan Singh, at Mr Jack's boat-building yard at Taikokteni. The man was murdered during an armed robbery on the house His Worship by a large band of men. remanded the case for a week.
H.M. the Kaiser Wilhelm, who was at
Kiel for the Regatta, at once atopped the Regatta on learning the views.
The greatest excitement prevails at Vienna. Thore is evidence therr of the greatest universal sympathy.
LATER. Both assassins have been arrested. It is said that the Servian Government isaned a warning before the tour of the Archduke, as Bosnia is the seat of a Pan-Servian conspiracy, which has ite adherents cpecially in the schools, where it has developed great activity.
fixen persons were wounded in the first outrage
The bodies will be brought to Vienna.
The German and British Fleets have
half-mast, put their flags at
AI festivities at Kol have been cancelled.
OIL CONCESSION IN
MESOPOTAMIAM
BERLIN, Juno 20th 4 The Porto, has granted an oil conces sions in Mesopotamia to the Turkish Petroleum Company. Three groups are participating, viz., the Angle-Turkish, the Deutscho Petroleum Gesellschaft and the Dutch Petroleum Company (Shell).