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ROYAL LOVE SCANDALS.
INDISCRETIONS OF THE
HAPSBURGS.
"Most of the members of my house," Louise, ex-Crown Princess of Saxony, writes in her autobiography, seem to be very unlucky in love. Indeed, in the ordinary affairs of life our family rarely does anything in the accepted way, and we afford a fascinating study for those interested in heredity,"
FINE ART OF BAYONETING.
NEW STYLE WHICH SAVES ENERGY.
By Malcoin Koss, "wur correspondent with the New Zealand Forces.
I have iu previous articles referred to the new bayanet drill that has been developed by the British Army. It is so important that no apology as necessary for again reverting to the subject, and with- out giving away to the Boche any of the points-except those he will get on the battlefield should like to give some description of this lecture as it struck me. It is a subject that cannot be too much discussed while the war lasts, or we have ample evidence that the new evitem has already borne excellent fruit."
ORIGIN OF THE WAR.
CHANCELLOR'S REPLY TO VISCOUNT GREY
RUSSIA BLAMED
At a sitting of the Main Committee of the Reichstag on November 9th the Im perial Chaseallor made the following statement :----
The full debates which have taken place in the Main Committee during the course of the last few weeks have in the end always turned on questions regarding the prosecution and the termination of the On the enemy's side they usually war. speak only of the prosecution of the war. But Lord Grey has also spoken about peace in his speech at the banquet given
new version has been exclusively brought forward by Lord Grey.
The Russian Government itself, which after all must be best acquainted with the reasons for its mobilization, nover had an idea of explaining its fateful step by appealing to the Lokalanzeiger's extra edition. Lord Grey, I assume, will not desire to reject the Tsar as witness. Friday, July 31st, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the mobilization order had already been issued to all the Ruesion forces, the Tsar telegraphed in reply to the Kaiser's last appeal for peace:--
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It is tochnically impossible to dis- our inilitary preparations, continue which have become necessary owing to Austria-Hungary's mobilization."
No mention of the Lokalanzeiger. No
mention of the German mobilization. I The only recall en passant that the reference.
The taint in the Hapsburg blood, derived from the union of the dissolute Ferdinand II. with "Jonnna the Mad,'" has no doubt been largely responsible for tho ་ 4f flagrant indiscretions
of this Royal House, notably in the domain of love, which have caused so much scandal in Europe The chronicles of the Haps-
As the lecturer said, if you go over the to the Foreign Press Association." are full of stories of
Our only one thing which deserved to be kept Austria-Hungary could be no reason for misalliances, maids and men of low degree, not the you must either kill or be killed. least romantic of which is that which the men thoroughly realise that, and they in mind-namely, that one could not re- & Russian general mobilization. Austria- are out to kul termans all the time. Ono vert too often to the consideration of the Hungary, at the time when a general. Archduke Johann was the here about a
principle of the new drill is that you do origin of the war, because that origin mobilization was ordered in Russia, had century ago! 7
not waste energy you do your work would have its influence on the conditions only placed eight corps on a war footing Lord Grey added that if it with a view to the conflict with Serbia. lightly and artistically with a minimum of peace.
were true that the war was forced upon As early as July 19th Russia had already at force; When the 1st Australians took
demand safeguarda tion of 13 army corps. After July 27th rozieres those who came after them found Germany then it was only logical that answered this mossure with the mobiliza- This is, in any Austria-Hungary had taken an further which could have many dead Germans who seemed to have Germany should no scratch on them, and looked as if they against future attack. might have been gassed. But they were event, a remarkable admission. Natural military measures not gassed, said the lecturer; the Austro-ly it was quickly followed by an assertion furnished Russia with any grounds for n
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ent to a declaration of war. ans, who are master hands with the contradicting the German representation general mobilization, which was equiva-
"that the war is," Lord Grey proceeded, bayonet, had simply been getting some of of the origin of the war.... their ine work in upon the enemy.
was not forced on Germany, but Germany forced the war in Europe.
burgs, indeed of strange unions with parapet you are in for a killing match; British Minister then said that thore was of the Tsar to the alleged mobilization of
Prince Johann, so the story runs, was travelling from Italy to Vienna, when he stopped at a small Styrian village for a change of horses and postilion. The horses were available, but, as the rastic host of the inn apologetically explained, there was no postilion for them. The Prince, anxious to continue his journey without delay, bad begun to dospair when, to his surprise and delight, a pustilion was forthcoming, none other than the innkeeper's pretty daughter, who, deler mined that the handsome stranger should not be disappointed, had herself donned livery and volunteered to drive him to the next posting-station.
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THE NEW WAR-CRY. --
It was like the scientific tap of the Some experienced boxer, but it was very effec- tive if it fell on the right places soldiers thought it all right if they got Here, indeed, were all the elements of their foresight in, said the lecturer, and a romance, & susceptible prince and a the brigade laughed at the contrast He beautiful maid, whose charms were way telling the in cold blood of things enhanced by the masculine garb she wore, that would have to be done in hot blood, and the romantic rule she had assumed but he added that he was now going to with such courtesy, The Archduke,ir them up. And he did so by reading powerless to resist such a combination of a Bache proclamation that had been Assaults on his heart, promptly fell in found on a captured officer. It was a love with his fair postilion, and, as his proclamation headed Butchery as a wife and Countess of Meran, she had no Duty," telling the Germans in the name reason to regret an adventure which no of God to go forward and carry out the doubt she thoroughly enjoyed apart from duties of an executioner. The cold steel its happy consequences.
was put in the hands of the soldier to be used without hesitation and without mercy. But, added the lecturer, the Ger man did not know how to use the bayonet like our men.
MARRIED A DANCER.
Of a later Archduke Johann a story no less dramatic is told. Johann Salvator Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany, was, a genera- Lion ago, the most brilliant prince in Europe, accomplished scholar, poet, and musician, and the finest strategist in Franz Josef's army, in which he had, while in his early thirties, risen to field
marshal's rank.
One day, as Fate would have it, he visited à Vienna theatre famed for its ballets, and among the fair dancers who posed and pirouetted on the stage was one whose radiant young beauty and grace of figure arrested his attention, and held him entranced. Such was the fascination, of her virginal freshness and dainty charms that Johann know no peace until he had made the acquaintance of his betwitcher, who proved to be Emilie Stubel, daughter of an obscure shopkeeper in a poor quarter of the city.
In the character of a poor student he sought and wooed the tradesinan's daughter, and it was only when she had a wedding-ring on her finger that she learned that her handsome student was поне other than the Archduke John Salvator, cousin of the Emperor.
He told how an Australian had killed two Germans, but could not get his bayonet out of the second one, so picked up a German bayonet and killed his third
mas with that.
With the assistance of his instructor be proceeded to show how they could kill a Boche so long as the latter supplied the rifle and the bayonet. The Australians, he added, were keen as mustard in acquir ing the new bayonet drill, and he had found the New Zealanders who had taken it on equally keen. They took to it like mother's milk, and during one silent raid all that was heard was the 4th Austra- lians granting as they weat along the German trench in the darkness In! Out! In! Out!" That was the war cry of the 4th Australiana, and it was a very good one, too,
There is," he added, one English soldier who got 15 Germans and the But D.C.M. and is now on.our staff." even that was not the record; there was another man who had 18 to his credit.
BOORING IN CORPSES.
In view of the fundamental importance to this question of peace conditions, and which Lord Grey again recently attached which we too have attached to it, I am obliged again to state facts in order to disperse the clouds with which our enemies endeavour to disguise the real In reply I can only repeat situation. inevitable Was the Russian general what is known. The act which made war mobilization which was ordered on the night of July 30-31, 1914.
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Only after the general mobilization had taken place in Russia did Austria-Hun- gary on the morning of July 31st also pro- ceed to a general mobilization. We our- and patience to tlio utmost limits of con- selves even then exorcised forbearance sideration for our own existence and our duty towards our Allies. As far back as July 29th, when Russia mobilised against Austria-Hungary, we ourselves could have niobilised. The text of our Treaty of known and nobody could have considered Alliance with Austria-Hungary our mobilisation aggressive. We did not
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Russia, England, France, and the en-
It is incomprehensible bow, in view of tire world knew that this step must have made further waiting impossible for us. these documented facts, Lord Grey can Even in England people are beginning coine before the world and his own coun The truth is which we enticed the pacific Russian into to understand the fateful significance of try with the story of a manœuvre by the Russian mobilization.
An English professor mobilisation against his own will by coming to light. of world fame wrote some time ago that grossly deluding him about our own men No The truth is Russia would many people would think differently sures.
informed about the end of the war if they were bet never have decided on the fateful step it beginning, she had not been encouraged to it from ter especially about the facts of the Russian the Thames by acts of commission and
No wonder, then, that omission. mobilization. Lord Grey, in his recent speech, could not pass the Russian mobilization unnoticed, but felt himself obliged to speak of it recall the actual situation at the time He could no longer deny that the Russian when Russia issued the order for a gen- The instructions mobilization preceded the German and eral mobilization. Austrian mobilization, but, as he desires which I gave our Ambassador in Vienna to remove all blame for the war from theon July 30th are known. Futente, he makes a daring endeavour by menze of quite a new version of the case to represent the Russian mobilization as Germany's work.
STATEMENT.
INSTRUCTIONS TO VIENNA,
In those in- structions I urged on the Austro-Hun garian Government an immediate under standing with Russia, and urgently and did emphatically declared that Germany not desire, through disregard of our ad vice, to be drawn into a world conflagra- tion. Lord Grey also well-knows that I retransmitted to Vienna with the most peremptory recommendation the mediation proposal which he made to our Ambarsa dor on July 29th, and which appeared to me a suitable basis for the maintenance of peace. I at that time telegraphed to Vienna:-
THE LOKALANZEIGER'S " Lord Grey's explanation is that Russia ordered her first mobilization only after a report had appeared in Germany that Germany had ordered a mobilization and after this report had been telegraphed to Alluding to the alleged Petrograd falsification of the Ems, dispatch in 1870,
"Bhould the Austro-Hungarian Gov- Lord Grey added that at the moment chosen by Germany we manoeuvred to provoke another country to take defen-ernment refuse all mediation we are con- sive measures, and that then these defen fronted with a conflagration in which sive measures were answered by us with Ragland would go against us, and Italy an ultimatum which made war inevitable, and Roumanie, according to all indica
we should confront It was about two and a quarter years tions, would not be with us; so that with Germany, as the before Lord Grey discovered this inter Austria-Hungary pretation, which is as new as it is objec- three Great Powers. tively false, of the cause of the war. The result of England's hostility, would have occurrence to which he alluded is well to bear the chief brant of the fight. The known. The document which forms the political prestige of Austria-Hungary, basis of his proof is an extra edition of the honour of her arms, and her justified the Berlin Lokalanzeiger.
claims against 'Berbia can be sufficiently Wo, therefore, safeguarded by the occupation of Bel- grade or other places. therefore, urgently and emphatically ask the Vienna Cabinet to consider the accept- ance of mediation on the proposed condi- tions. Responsibility for the conse be extraordinarily severe for Austria- quences which may otherwise arise must Hungary and ourselves."
The charge and the rush be told them was now played out. A man had to save But the princely lover had to pay a heavy price for his romance. He had his breath if he wanted to kill when be already incurred. Franz Josef's severe got into the trench. This war was nothing hia else but a glorified game, and they had displeasure by rebelling against authority, and this last fagrant defiance to treat it as they treated their games and remain cool. The only difference was sealed his doom: Compelled to renounce his Royal rank and titles and his vast in the method of scoring-men killed! estates, he fared forth with his young wife Every German they killed would bring
At one victory so much the nearer. to seek work, however menial.
You will remember, gentlemen, perhaps, time, it is said, he earned a scanty living They were "putting the wind up" the as a writer; at another, he was toiling German now, and though the poets said that on Thursday, July 30th, 1914, in the as a labourer, and again he was doing it was a glorious thing to die for their carly afternoon, tat Lokalanzeiger issued false report in an extra edition that reporter's work in New York. Drifting country they could take it from him to England, he studied for and secured that it was a unich better thing to live the Emperor had ordered a mobilization. You also know that the sale of this extra a navigator's licence. and one day inand to kill for their country. There was 1890, he sailed away across the Atlantic. only one good Boche and he was a dead edition was at once stopped by the police with his bourgeois wife, and from that Boche, and it was their bayonets that and the available copies were seized. day to this all trace of the adventurous would make him a good 'un.. couple has been lost.
WEDDED IN THE STRAND,
At the end of the lecture there was demonstration of the new method with the bayonet. Then the lecturer was thanked instructed, amused and inspired, rose up one man and moved off to practice what had been preached.
was also in-
The Austro-Hungarian Government ac- ceded to our urgent representations by lowing instruction :-
iving its Ambassador in Berlin the fol-
can also declare that the Foreign Secre- tary immediately informed the Russian Ambassador, and simultaneously all the other Ambassadors, by telephone, that the news issued by the
"I ask your Excellency most sincerely to thank Herr von Jagow, the Secretary formed as soon as possible from the of State for Foreign Affairs, for the in- Lokalanzeiger's office that there had been formations given through Herr von a mistake. I can further confirm that the Tschirschki, and to declare to him that, Russian Ambassador, immediately after despite the change in the situation which the issue of the extraedition, telegraphed as since arisen through the Russian a cipher message to Petrograd which, ac mobilization, we are quite ready to con- cording to the Hussian Orange Book, read sider the proposals of Sir Edward Grey
In the register of the 8trand Registry by the brigadier, and the brigalse. The Russian Embassyger was Office you may see the record of a marriage which recalls a very strange romance of Royalty-that of "Marie Antoinette Louise, formerly Archduchess of Austria, and divorced wife of Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince, and Elizabeth of Bavaria, gave much food now King of Saxony, to Earico Toselli, for scandal when she ran away with a professor of music."
young infantry lieutenant named Seefried, cousin of Vienna's chief executioner.
as follows:
"I learn that an order for the mobiliza tion of the her and ad plot has just been published."
But this telegram after Herr von Fagow's telephonic explanation was fol lowed by a second telegram "en clair which read as follows:-
More than twenty years earlier, the beautiful and gifted Hapsburg Princess,
FARCINATING CINDERELLAS, daughter of Ferdinand IV., Grand Duke of Tuscany, had given her hand, in the' For two years the Princess' infatuation chapel of the Emperor's palace at Vienna, for the young offer had caused anxiety to the heir to the throne of Saxony, with in Royal circles, but all efforts to control every prospect of a happy wedded life the imperious young lady had proved as well as a future queendom. "My futile. One night she disappeared from
"Please consider my last telegram can husband, she says,
forced upon us." was young and Munich in her lover's company, and novelled (nichtig). Explanation follows."' handsome and devoted to me. He had thing was heard of the runaways until A few minutes later the Russian Am many excellent qualities of heart and the news came that they had been made mind, and I felt sure that may marriage.one by an obliging pricat would be a happy one."
FOOD FOR BEANDAL.
for a settlement between us and Serbia. A condition of our acceptance, of would be that our military action outst Serbia shall meanwhile proceed, and that the English Cabinet shall induce the Russian Government to bring to a stand- till the Russian mobilization, directed against us, in which case also we, as a matter of course, will at once cancel our defensive countermeasures in Galicia, Against this I place the following steps On July 29th, 1914, in assador sent a third cipher telegram of Lord Gray: which, according to the Russian Orange reply to a remark of the Russian Am A solitary elopement, however, was far Book. said that the German Foreign bassador in London that the impression frem satisfying Amelic, another Bavarian Minister had just telephoned to him that prevailed in German and Austro-Hun- the news of the mobilization of the army Karian circles that England would re- princess of the Hapsburg blood, who ran But it was not long before disillusionment
had been removed by the orders which caine. Frederick Augustus, indeed proved away with four lovers of low degree in and fleet was false and that the extra main quiet, he said that that impression
quick succession, an example which her edition in question had been seized,
The immediate intervention of Herr "we gave to the First Fleet on July 29th," himself a good husband; but the Princess daughter Elvira later followed when she life was made so miserable by the King's eloped with Count Vrona More recently ron Jagow: the Secretary of State for Lord Grey immediately acquainted the Foreign Affairs, in order to rectify the French Ambassador with his confidential insults, the Queen's potty tyrannies, and still, Prince Victor Salvator, son of the false news-an intervention which, in the warning to our Ambassador in London the rigidity of the Court etiquette, that Austrian Grand Duchess Marie Louise, official Russian Orange Book is confirmed that Germany must be prepared for a all her dreams of happiness were soon and first cousin of the ex-Crown Princess by the telegram of M. Sverbeieff, the Rus speedy decision with England, that is, dissipated. For eleven years the bure of Saxony, played the role of bridegroomsian Ambassador, of itself contradicts the her participation in war against us.
Could Lord Grey suppose that such a her burden of misery, until she could at the Nuremberg register office to assertion of Lord Grey that wo intention- bear it no longer. Then one day in Fraulein Anna Rohrer, daughter of ally desired to deceive Russia for the pur disclosure would serve peace Must not 1902, the world was shocked to learn that humble country doctor, whom he had pose of bringing about a mobilization. I France thereby have been encouraged to Saxony's queen-to-be had eloped with her successfully wooed under the very walls can, however, also confirm that according give Russia a promise of unconditional children's tutor, M. Giron, a handsome of his mother's castle in Bohemia. to investigations of the Tauperial Postal war support which Russia had for days
Administration about
times of urgently demanded? Must not Russia young Belgian M. Giron," she says,
The Archduke Ferdinand Carl, younger despatch of the Russian Ambassador's have been strengthened to the utmost in did not remain long with me in Swit zerland. My reputation being thoroughly brother of the late Crown Prince of three telegramg these must-have arrived her bellicose intention by the certainty of
a Franco-British Alliance compromised by his presence, my object Austria, who himself made a morganatir in Petiograd almost simultaneously.
The Russian Government can, therefore, The Russian reply to Lord Grey's morn was attained, and be therefore returned marriage with a countess, found a wife in
Fraulein Cauber, daughter of a roaster have been only for a brief moment under ing conversation was in fact not long in to Brusselss
ata Vienna school. The Archdukes the misapprehension that a general coming. On the evening of the same day, Ernest and Henry each put a wedding mobilization had been ordered in Ger- July 20th, M. Sanoff instructed tho ring on the finger of a low-born Cinde ruany. In any case a correction of the Russian Ambassador in Paris to expresa rella, while another. Archduke Ernest false report had been already made before his sincere thanks for the declaration mated with a hallet dancer whose son by the Russian Government ordered a gen made to him by the French Ambassador
We need fear no that Ruosis could rely fully on the sup his was a few years ago a waiter in a eral mobilization. Budapest restaurant.
tribunal, I can further confirm that the port of her ally France--Router.
The Emperor of Austria, during his long life, has been shocked by many similar indiscretions within his family pirale. Li is but a few years since one of big grand-daughters, the Princess (Continued at foot of next Column)
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