EX-EMPEROR KARL

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1921, Page 3

EX-EMPEROR KARL

IUSTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

TO BANISH KARL. (Received This Day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2(1. It is learned that the Allied Ambttssadors have decided to banish Karl to St Helena. It is not likely to be chosen, because it would provide too theatrical a settling for the ciul of hi* adventure. The responsibility of the final destination rests with Britain.

A FOILED COUP. (Received This Day at Id p.m.) VIENNA, Oct. 25

Karl and rx-Empress Zita are tempt,rarilv interned in Teliany Benedictine Ahbev .sixty miles from Budapest, < los.dv guarded by officers of high rank Karlists lost four hundred killed and a thousand wounded in the last battle. Troops included four hundred Austrian and Bavarian officers. Many of Karl s political friends and advisers have been arrested. The last stages of the desperate attempt to regain the throne constitutes an epic. When Ids appeal for an armistice was rejected Karl’s sense of loyalty to the men who risked honour and life impelled him to fight to a finish. Resuming the battle, and liopin„ against hope, he fought a reaigiiard action hut was severely punished. Many of his follower* deserted, and the survivors readmit; a friendly village, Karl was urged to flee and eventually seeing that all was lost he fled. The survivors emerged! from the village under cover of his flight, hut werei surrounded and threw down their arms. Many officers committed suicide in preference to capture. Karl wns arrested twenty miles from tho scent* of the tight.