THE AUSTRIAN SENSATION

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

THE AUSTRIAN SENSATION

MURDER OF THE PREMIER

GRAVE CONSEQUENCES

EXPECTED

DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY

Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Amsterdam, October 22. [ Further details of the murder of Count Stuergkh, the Austrian Prime Minister,. who was reported yesterday to have been shot dead at the dinner table by a publisher named Adler, showthat when the shots were fired a number of German officers, with drawn swords, rushed at Count StueTgkh's assailant, who oft'ored no resistance, and was handed 'over to the police. He said: "I will account for this before a Court." Adler is tie publisher of a Socialist newspaper and the editor of another, and is secretary of the Social Democratic Party. The "Allgemeino Tageblatt" (Vienna) states that Count Stuergkh was dining in the hotel in company with Baron Aehrenthal, brother of the former Foreign Minister. The assailant was seated three tables a,way, and suddenly jumped up and moved to Count Stuergkh's table. Ho fired at Baron Aehrenthal, who was hit in the foot. One shot caught Count Stuergkh as he fell. .The assailant has long been considered eccentric, and latterly was opposed i'o the majority of the Socialist Party. HUGE SENSATION IN AUSTRIA Amsterdam, October 22. Count Stuergkh's death caused a huge sensation In Austro-Hungary. The Emperor Francis Joseph was shocked. ' Public' opinion in Berlin fears that the murder will lead to very serious consequences, and is interpreted as significant of Austria's state of mind. Count Stuergkh was a bureaucrat and a pronounced clerical. He was a strong opponent to tho extension of the suffrage. The assassin's motivos aro the subject of various conjectures. The war has paralysed all civil liberty in Aus=* tria, and involved the country in ! frightful losses of men, maJiy inconveniences, and somo suffering.