Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 5

Austria

PRINZiP ON TRIAL. -- I HIS REASON FOR THE CRIME. Rome, October 15. At the Prinzip trial, the prisoner declared that he gloried in his act, the object of which was not to kill a man but to show the world the desperation to which Austria had driven the Slav population. Prinzip said he had arrived at the opinion that rebellion was a duty, and the only possible protest wan by striking the individual who incarnated despotism. Prinzip likened himself to' Mazzini, Kossuth, and Daniel O’Connell. He regretted the archduchess’s death. He alone was responsible, and the organiser of the plot. Cabrinovio confessed that he had hold anarchist ideas, but during the Balkan war he became a convicted Nationalist, When he heard that the Archduke was visiting Serajevo he conferred with Prinzip in planning the murder. Major Tantosio, of Servia, supplied the weapons and taught their use. Cabrinovio admitted that he had an audience with the Servian Crown Prince in April, but refused to disclose its nature.

Rome, October 17

Reports from the Austrian frontier state that cholera is rapidly spreading in Galicia and Hungary. Ten thousand cases have been reported in Northern Hungary. A GREATER SERVIA MOVEMENT. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, October 16. Sarajevo advices state that Jocinovitch, being interrogated, admitted there was activity on behalf of ideals for a Greater Servia. He did not know of the fatal attack, though he himself kept weapons for an attempt on the Archduke Francs Ferdinand.

AUSTRIANS AT ANTWERP UEAVc FOR CRACOW. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, October 17. Eight thousand Austrians who paiticipated in the siege of Antwerp, are returning to Cracow. THE CALL TO THE COLORS. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Romo, October 18. ' In Austria the regiments containing Italian-speaking soldiers have been ordered to relieve German troops in Belgium. Austro-Hungarian reserve conscripts have been called to the colors. Through lack of officers, many cadets and privates have been promoted.