AUSTRIA.
\ ROYAL EOBBS ?- OPERATION" OF HAPSBUBGS. WAS OFFICE REVELATION.
Received Jan. 20, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, Jan. 23. An investigation Ox the records at the Ministry of War resulted in startling revelations of malpractices of members of the House of Hapsburg. While the Empire was suffering frq|u terrible privations Emperor Charles was receiving from the army commissariat sufficient to feed 14,000 men, though his housesold only consisted of seven. The Archduke Frederick, while eom-mander-in-chief, was engaged in corrupt transactions yielding a profit of many million kroner.
Archduke Leopold Salvatore while in-spector-general made a million sterling out of the sale of vegetables. Archduke Max, the ex-Emperor's brother, indulged in a life of riotous «n----joyment at Goundou, while two other archdukes took largo sums froii the army funds, which were paid to women. -r-Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1919, Page 5
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