AN IGNOBLE HISTORY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2910, 24 October 1916, Page 5

AN IGNOBLE HISTORY

STUERGKH A TOOL OF A POLITICAL BOSS. (Rec. October 23, 11.30 p.m.) / London, Ootober 23. Count Stuergkh was an impecunious Styrian nobleman, of limited intelligence. He owed his political position to a man named Singer, son of a provincial Rabbi, who was attached to tho Austrian Premier's office, and had controlled the Secret Press Fund since 1904. . Singer used the fund to overthrow five successive Premiers, until he came to be regarded. as_a most influential personage in politics. About 1910 Singer secured the directorship on the Landed Credit Bank, at a salary of £10,000, and the opportunity of making a huge fortune by investments. Ho thereupon arranged with his friends that. Count Stuergkh should become a Minister, and later Premier. Count Stuergkh managed to hold office despite many vicissitudes, including a long period of blindness. Private information received in London last week showed that Singer was using his influence to destroy Count. Stuergkh,- as he had destroyed other Premiers, on the ground that ■ the Reichsrat'h should he convoked. New York, October 23. Berlin dispatches assert that Dr. Adler was insane. It is pointed out that his sister has been an inmate of an asylum for ten years.