TRAGEDY AN EMPEROR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 173, 26 March 1915, Page 2

TRAGEDY AN EMPEROR.

'. y&AJSfOIS Joseph bealises he HAS BEEN" DECEIVED. $ CHANGED POPULACE. Ouoting the Vienna correspondent of t ; <.< Giornale d 'ltalia, telegrams from K-me state tliat Count Borchtold was compelled to resign as the result of a aU'vwy interview with I he Eraporor 'i iu-H •lopefov' reproached the- Count with having deceived him as to the eon- ; of, .the . ultimatajiv sent;.-.-.to. ttevyia, in declaring that Russia would r{(>i .Intervene, -and.'that: in any *w l i.i«iy--,wsi)u]d,:';jeir!.-,bftr The rumour, adds the correspondent, is,.current.in Vienna that the resignn ■fioiv of Count Berehtold will shortly be followed by that of Herr von Both-■jnann-Holwegg; the Imperial Chancellor. LOVE TURNED TO HATE. The Matin publishes an account of the visit to Vienna of a special correspondent who wished to see the Emperor Francis Joseph. He says: "Gone is the former deep adoration of the people which was displayed at every appearance of the Emperor; extinguished ia the spontaneous enthusi- . sin .which was manifested at the sight of the monarch; ended are the battles in the streets born of the desire to approach more closely; finished are the cheers and cries which only a little

while ago were raised on hie passage I by a delirious crowd swarming. roand \ the aged sovereign. "To-day all is void, official icy. If he still has an escort, it is composed of plain-clothed policemen, or women -aud mothers in mourning. Their silent demonstrations will soon <?'ive way to hostile criea, -the foreruuners of the downfall." AFRAID. "Francis Joseph is afraid; he ha? gone to earth at Sehonbrunn. Formerly he went thither for reasons of health; now ho lives there as a measure of precaution. Francis Joseph goes in tear of lfe. The Sarajevo outrage had already shaken Kim greatly; the cries of the wounded, the or the dying, J'he, tears of; the widows and mothers have completed the work. "The fact is the Slavs are no longer the only enemy to be feared. The Czechs aad Hungarians are murmuring. The former are openly demanding the realisation of their legitimate aspirations. "The Hungarians for their part are beginning to grasp that they have been tricked.'' UMinwil ■mi Mil MWWWWWI—W—W