"It's All Over Now!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 1 July 1914, Page 5

"It's All Over Now !"

THE DUCHESS'S PLEADZMG DISORDER AND CONFUSION CURSE OF THE HABSBURCB i A LONG TIME IN PRAYER. [By Eleotkio Telegraph—Copyright] [Dnithd Press Abbooiation.] \ Vienna, June 30. After the bomb had been thrown the Duchess pleaded with Archduke Ferdinand not to venture in the motor car again, but the Governor saici: "It's all over now. We have not more than one murderer in Sarajevo." Before leaving Vienna the couple spent a* long time praying at the Altar in the palace chapel. The Archduke had a growing conviction that he would not die a natural death.

BRITISH SYMPATHY. London, June 30. In the House of Commons, in the debate on the Foreign Office vote, Sir Edward Grey touchingly referred to the sorrow which had befallen the monarch whose life was such a powerful support of peace. MIDNIGHT BURIAL AT VIENNA. Vienna, June SO. The remains were conveyed to Metkovic last night, and thence will be escorted by a squadron of battleships to Trieste, which will be reached on Thursday, and the bodies entrained for Vienna, where' they will lie in state at the Imperial Chapel on Friday. They will then be taken to Arstettin Castle and buried at midnight. The Kaiser will be present. The Emperor Franz Josef will not attend the funeral, but will attend a requiem mass on Saturday at tho chapel at Hofberga.

THE ROYAL ORPHANS. One of Emperor Franz Josef's first acts was to telegraph that the orphan children should be brought to his palace at Vienna* . ,ANTI-SERVIAN RIOTS NECESSITATE MARTIAL LAW. The anti-Servian demonstrations) continue to be general in Bosnia, the Mahogtans, and Croatians attacking the Serbs. The garrisons have been called out in several towns.

Long processions were formed at Sarajevo, carrying black flags. At the spot of the murder the crowd knelt down and prayed for the Emperor and for the souls of the Archduke and Duchess.

Anti-Servian demonstrators, by wrecking two hundred shops," necessitated martial law. " The commander of the troops called on the demonstrators: "If you love your Emperor, go quietly." Some of the crowd obeyed.

Sarajevo's Executive and Provincial Diet manifesto denounces the inhuman and nefarious act, and is convinced that the people of BosniaHertzegovina will steadfastly stand by the. throne and dynasty.

LAST THOUGHTS FOR THE

CHILDREN. Members of the Archduke's staff ttute that the first 15uu"et struck the Duchess, ,who sank into the Archduke's arms. He rose and cried: "What happened to you?" He was immediately shot, and sank into the bottom of the car, bleeding lyThe Duchess tried to staunch the fearful wound, when she screamed: "My God! My God!" and also sank on the floor of the motor car. When the car reached the palace both woro unconscious in the bottom of the car. It is stated that, the Archduke's last words were: "Sophie, you must live for our children." BOMB-THROWER'S CONFESSION. Grabsinovic, who threw the bombs, Is the son of an in-keeper. He confesses -that he recently went to Belgrade and received several bombs for nso against the Archduke. Ho tapped a bomb against, a quarry wall until it caught fire, and then flung it into the motor car, when the Archduke warded it off. Grabsinovic then jumped into the Miljacka river, and Marossy, a hairdresser, jumped after him. A detective followed both, and the two succeeded in capturing Grabsinovic. Prinzip knew nothing of Grabsinovic's scheme, and was so bewildered when the bomb was thrown that lie allowed the Archduke to pass the first time. The spectators state that two youths accompanied Prinzip, and that all wore the Servian tricolor. Threo young girls were conversing with them just before the attack.

THE PEACE OF EUROPE. [B f EtBOTBTO TIMGBAPH—dOPYBIGHI) Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, .Juno .30. Tn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey, referring to the assassinations, said there was not a Foreign Minister in Europe who did not know what a support the life of the Emperor of Austria has been and will continue po be to the. cans* of peace in Europe.

GONDOLENCE FROM THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. "THE MOST LONELY FIGURE." lUnitep Press Association.] (Received 10.35 a.m.) London, Juno 30. The House of Commons passed a resolution of sympathy. Mr Asquith (Premier) in moving it, said: We are confronted with a crime which almost made us despair of the progress of mankind. Their thoughts and hearts turned to the aged Emperor, who for seventy years has sustained an almost unexampleu burden of care, borne with almost unparalleled patience. Mr Bonar Law (Leader of the Opposition) seconded the resolution. The House of Lords adopted Lord Crewe's motion of condolence with the venerable Emperor. He said he was the most dignified and the most lonely figuro in tho great places of the world.

Lord Lansdowne seconded the motion, and paid a tribute to the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's manliness and ability. '

ACKNOWLEDGED COLLUSION.

ASSASSINS' CALLOUS ATTITUDE.

THE BOSNIAN PENAL LAW. (Received 11.5 a.m.) , Vienna, June -30. Cabrinovic and Prinzip now acknowledge they agreed that if one failed the other would continue the work. Both adopted a callous attitude, and rejoice in their success. According to Bosnian penal law, Cabrinovic is liable to from five to ten years imprisonment. Prinzip, on account of his age, may get off with ten years. THE LAST TOUCHING RITES. NAVAL YACHT COVERED WITH WREATHS. VILLAGES IN MOURNING. i Sailors conveyed the remains aboard the naval yacht Dalmata. Immense crowds assembled and covered the Dalmata with wreaths. v Every village and hamlet along the Marenta River was draped in mourning.

Villagers holding lighted candles knelt on the banks as the Dalmata passed. ~

The coffins were transferred to the battleship Virbus Unitus at the river moutli and proceeded to Trieste.

AN EDITOR'S ARREST.

The editor of the Servian newsptper "Narod" has been arrested for publishing certain articles.

A TERRIBLE CURSE.

"May Heaven and Hell blast his happiness! May his family be exterminated! May he be smitten in the persons of these he loves! May his life be wrecked, and may his children be brought to ruin!" (From the Sun.)

One more fulfilment of the terrible curse laid on Franc's Joseph of Austria and* the House of Habsburg by the Countess Karolyi, the anguished mother, whose son had been executed during the savage repression that followed 'the war with Hungary. To all her pleadings the only response was in polite talk of the law's equality, and so this curse of implacable hate.

A terrible curse, so strange in its fulfilment—making even sceptics wonder if the dark powers of which the old necromancers spoke do indeed lurk beyond the portals of life to do evil at thoj, behest of wills made strong with hate. Coincidence, perhaps, for the House of Habsburg was doomed by its own pride, its exclusiveness that willed that a Habsburg might only marry on© of Habsburg blood. Perhaps a coineidenco-7-but heredity does not account for the assassin's knife, and once more a Habsburg, hoir to the throne, lies dead at the assassin's hand. "May his family be exterminated. . . May Ms children be brought to ruin!" The Tragic List.

The Empress Elizabeth, a sad dreaming lady of lost illusions, daughter of a family wherein insanity ever lay in wait, a woman seeking a happiness that fled as she followed, and. it is said, courting death in daring horsemanship—she at last found release when a shoemaker's awl was thrust in her bosom, and died with scarco a sigh. "Is there no sorrow possible to man which T am to be [spared?" said the Kmperor when tho 'news was broken to him ; and timo [has shown that the cup of his sor|row wa s not to receive its last brimming drop until death was ready for its emptying. In 1867 his brother, the Archduke Maximilian, was shot by a firing party in Mexico because he had played for a while at being Emperor of that country, and Maximilian's Archduchess has for these many year* past been shut in an

asylum. The Emperor's cousin, Ludwig of Bavaria, committed suicide in 1886, and another cousin committed suicide at Zurich; his son, the Crown Prince Rudolph was found dead with his mistress in a hunting cottage in 1897—another suicide. The Emperor's brother, Archduke William Francis Charles, was killed through a fall from his horse in 1894, his niece/ Archduchess' Matilda, daughter of Archduke Albert, was burned to death in her father's palace; his nephew, Archduke Ladislas, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting; the Archduke John of Tuscany, resigned all his royal state and privileges to take command of a. sailing ship, and was drowned on the voyage to South America—or it is to be presumed ho was drowned, for nothing more was ever heard of him or his ship. It is a long list, and it does not mention those other Archdukes who also resigned their royalty to make healthy marriages with women of the people, attainting their bluest blood with common red for the sake of mere happiness ; nor does it mention all those who have gone mad, or those Archduchesses and princesses who have escaped, hysterically as often as not, from royal masters, to carry on liaisons with their son's tutors, with musicians, and even tired of them in a little while, forever restlessly seeking rest that will not dwell in the unstable minds of the unhappy TTabsburgs",