From Varlous Sources

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 5

From Varlous Sources

i PRINZIP, WHO PRECIPITATED THB ! WAR. GLORIES IN HIS CRIME. Received 1«, 10.30 a.m. Rome, Oetoocr 18. At the Prinzip trial, the prisoner declared that he gloried in 'his act, the tt 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 epinion that rebellion was a duty, and the only possible protest was by striking the individual who incarnated despotism. Prinzip likened himself to Mazzini, Kossuth, and Daniel O'Conncl!. Ile regretted the archduchess's dcatb. lie alone was responsible, and the organiser of the plot.

Cabrinovic confessed that he had held anarchist ideas, but during the Balkan war he became a convicted Nationalist. When he heard that the Archduke was visiting Serajevo he conferred with Priurip in planning the murder. Major Tantoaio, oi Servia, supplied the weapons and taught their use. Cabrinovic admitted that he had an audience with the Servian Crown Prince in April, but refused to disclose its nature.

Received 18, 4.40 p.m. Pekin, October 1

The pro-German feeling here is the outcome of bribery of the Chinese Press.