Austrian Tragedy

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 5

Austrian Tragedy

NO PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. "PURELY A MILITARY AFFAIR/' MORE BOMBS DISCOVERED

ON T.iE RAILWAY ROUTE. Bj Cable—iress Association—Copyright Received 1, 10 p.m. Vienna, July 1.

Comment lias been aroused because, deapite the bomb attempt, the streets were not cleared.

According to some accounts, the Archduke himself insisted that no special precautions should be taken. A section of the press says that the fiait was purely a military alTair. All precautions were made by the military authorities, tlie civil authorities not !)■•- lag informed of the proposed journey. A large sum of money was found in Priaup's room.

Several bombs were discovered on the railway from Sarajevo by which tic Archduke intended to return.

FEELING IN SERVIA. "BAD OLD AUSTRIAN POLICESYSTEM." Received 1, 10 pjm. Belgrade, July 1. The newspapers express the deepest indignation at the assassination, whien they declare to be the act of anarchists' folly, considering the political aspects. They point out that the outrage it the consequence of the bad old Austrian police system and lack of real liberty. Only such a system could breed fanatical criminals of this type.

THREE HUNDRED ARRESTS. ANTI-SERVIAN DEMONSTRATORS, Received 1, II p.m. Serajevo, July I.

Three hunlred arrests have been made in connection with the alleged plot. Excesses against the Serbs continue. Demonstrators smashed the windows of the Orthodox Metropolitan's Palace, the broken glass wounding the Servian Metropolitan, Lc-ticjiuenna. Three hundred students violently demonstrated outside the Servian Legation and burnt the Servian tricolor flag. Belgrade, July 1.

The Government has issued a statejnent expressing its keen indignation at the crime, and protesting against the German press seeking to inculcate Serfifr

CALLOUS ATTITUDE OF ASSASSIN-. CONVEYANCE OF THE REMAINS. REFERENCES IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. By Association—Copyright Vienna, June 30.

GrabaiDOvic and Prinzip now acknowledge that they agreed if one failed the other should continue the work. Both have adoptcil a callous attitude and rejoiee in their success. According to the Bosnian penal law Grabsinovie is liable to from five to ten years' imprisonment. Prinzip, on account of his age, may get off with ten ' years. Sailors conveyed the remains aboard the naval yacht Dalmat. Immense crowds assembled and covered the Dalmat with wreaths. Every village and hamlet along the Marinto river is draped in mourning. The villagers, holding light"! candles, knelt on the {Minks as the Dalmat passed. The coffins were transferred to the battlesmp Viribus I'nitis at the river mouth and proceeded to Trieste. The editor of the Servian newspaper Karod has been arrested for publishing Irredentist articles.

London, June 30.

Jfi the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey, referring to the assassination, said that there was not a foreign Minister in Europe who did not know what support the life of the Emperor of Austria had been and continued to be to the cause of peace in Europe. The House of Commons passed a relolution of empathy with the Emperor of Austria. Mr. Asquith, in moving it, said that they were confronted with a crime which had almost made them despair of the prngr.-s of mankind. Vheir thoughts and beart, turned to tile aged Emperor, who for seventy yeare had sustained an almost unexampled burden of care, borne with almo-t unparalleled patience. Mr. Bonar Law seconded the motion.

The Hon-.- of Lord- adopted Lord Crewe's motion of condolence. The yenerablc Emperor, Earl Crewe said, was the most dignified and most lonoly figure in the great places of the wor'd. Lord Unsown.- seeunb-d the resolution, and paid a tribute to the manliness and ability of the late Archduke L'erdinand.

NEW ZEALAND SYMPATHY. By Telegraph—Piefe Association. Wellington. Last Night. In connection with the assassination Of Archduke Fram-i- Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, his Excellency tie Governor has sent the following caMe to the Secrotarv of Stat- for the Lom,ies—"Mvself and my Government and tie people of Now Zealand wish to -x----«ress our deepest sympathy with hi= Roval and Imperial Ap.-tolic MajeM the* Emperor of Austria at the tern >W erime which has been P^*™*" 1 - ™* Which we, in common whole world, view with abhorrence.