AUSTRIA'S MONARCHY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 23 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIA'S MONARCHY

j 8sFRAMZ JOSEF DEAD. Press Association—Copyright, Ansrralian and N.Z. Cable Association London, November 22. Fran/, Josef, Emperor of Austria, is dead. Francis Joseph F (Francis Joseph Chariest, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was horn August 18, IS JO, and ascended the throne of Austria on December 2, 1810, on tli(' abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand 1. He is the eldest son of the late Archduke Francis Charles (who stood next to the previous Emperor in the legal order of succession, and who died on March 8, 1878) and of the Princess Sophia. His reign has been a long and troubled one and little good of him can bo fairly recorded. The Emperor’s only son. the Clown Prince .Rudolph, having committed suicide on January 28, 1889, the Emperor’s brother, the Archduke Charles Louis, became heir, hut he relinquished his rights of succession in favour of his son, (he Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was assassinated at Sarajevo, in Bosnia, which, together with Herzegovina, was annexed to Austria about throe years ago. Karl Franz Joseph, nephew of the murdered Archduke Francis Ferdinand, is now the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. MONARCH’S LAST HOURS. Press Association—Copyright, Austra. lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Re ceived 9.10 a.in.) Amsterdam, November 22. Franz Josef rose at hi s nsaul time on Tuesday. He engaged in Government matters and gave an audience to Count Bmian. At ten o’clock in the morning his condition got worse, and in the afternoon his temperature rose, and it was evident he might die at anv moment.

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