Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1916, Page 3

Late War News

1 (Austral a-New Zealand Cable Service) (Received This Day 8.45 a.m.) THJS I• RLTAN'NIC. London, November 24. A Gorman woreless message comments 011 the extraordinary number cf persons aboard the Britannic voyaging to Salonika, justifying the suspicion of the misuse oif a hospital ship I'or the purpose of transport. It also iis declared that inasmuch as the ship bore the l{ed Cross there is naturally no questioning the fact that a German submarine was not concerned in sinkng hoi'. A.VOTIiICR V EASEL SUNK. Vancouver. Nov. 21. The liraemar Castle was torpedoed ill the Aegean Sea. All on board were saved. THIO AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. London, Nov. 24. Tlio iDa/ILy Chronicle's -Milan correspondent states that Vienna messages show that when the Emperor L'raneis Joseph's condition was giving cause for grave anxiety, Von Kcerber summoned the Archdukes to Vienna and sought to induce the Emperor to i agree to co-regency. The Emperor, on .Monday, first expressed a presentiment that his end was near, and lie sent an urgent summons to the court ccfnii'ess'ir. who wa.s closeted with the Emperor for two hours dur'.ng- the night. On Tuesday morning the fever increased and the Emperor passed the afternoon in an armchair tormented by fever and coughing spells andl delirium, though lie insisted oil listening to the latest- war bulletins.

During an audience with the Archdukes and prominent statesmen, through the papal nuncio, the Emperor sought and obtained special telegraphic blessings from the Pope. He relapsed into delirium at six p.m.; then followed a crisis of tears. He died quietly at nine o'clock. Extraordinary police precautions followed his decease, and arrests 011 a large scale were made in Bohemia and the Italian-speaking provinces. Bosnia and Herzegovina. The new .monarch's proclamation to the troops produced intense depression in. the soldiery. The proclamation, exhorted the armies to persevere '11 the struggle for salvation of the Imperial dominions.