The San Francisco call., 1897-08-12
AuStria'S Minister Calls
Bulgaria'S Premier
to Account.
Vienna Court Bitterly Stung by
a Remark of M.
StOiloff.
Offensive Reference to the Death
of Prince Rudolph and What
Prompted 1t.

BERLIN. GERMANY, Aug. ia report
is in circulation that Baron Call Won
Kuhn bach Rose burg, Austrian Minister
TO Bulgaria. will demand his passports
and leave Sofia at once unless NJ. Stoiloff,
Bulgarian Premier, apologies for certain
remarks concerning the Austrian impe-
rial family which he made in recent in
terview with a representative of the Ber-
lin Tagblatt.
The Lokal Anzeiger, commenting upon
the affair, asserts that forty-eight hours is
the limit fixed by the Austrian Minister
for the receipt of NJ. Stoiioffs apology.
Soiloff is now at Constantinople, accom-
panied by Prince Ferdinand on the lat
ter's visit to thu Sultan.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Aug. 1.-THE report
that the Austrian Minister 10 Bulgaria
has threatened to leave Sofia is undoubt-
edly true. The trouble really rose from
the murder of Anna SZimon, who was an
Austrian subject, by her paramour, Cap
tain Boitcheff formerly aid-de- camp to
Prince Ferdinand OF Bulgaria, and his ac-
com plices, Novelic, project of police, and
a gendarme named WassaIieff. These
men were only brought to justice through
the insistence OF the Austrian Consul at
Philippopols, where the crime was COM
mitted, the Bulgarian authorities having
determined to hush the matter up out of
consideration for the high position occu-
pied by Captain Boitcheff, and the defeat
of this intention caused much bitterness
against Austria.
Prince Ferdinand visited Coburg at the
end of July, whittier he was accompanied
by NJ. Stoioff, his Prime Minister. While
in Coburg NJ. Stoiloff was interviewed by
a representative of The Berlin Lokal An
zeiger not the Tageblatt as a Berlin dis
patch states.
According to the interviewer M. Stoiloff
ex pressed the suspicion that Austria had
meddled with the Boitcheff affair for no.
litical reasons and out of enmity to Bull
garia, knowing that Boitc eff was the
Princes aid-de-camp. He added that
Austria need not be too fast.dious about
the Boitcheff affair if she remembered
Crown Prince Rudo ph's death, which was
even now unexplained.
This latter remark must have especially
stung the Austrian court and created all
the more Indignation because it was be-
lieved that Prince Ferdinand had
prompted it. The interview wer had previ-
ous!y asked Prince Ferdinand to talk, but
he declined. saying that NJ Stoiloff would
be pleased to receive newspaper men and
Lne 1F6mIeT ulleIdnCSS might D6 re-
| garded as those of himself, as NJ. Stoiloff
was thoroughly familiar with his views.
After the interview appeared IN the
Lokal AnZeiger, the Fremden blatt, the
official paper of this city. published an
inspired paragraph suggesting that NJ.
| Stoiloff utterances had been misreported,
and added that 1T could not be imagined
that responsible Minister would employ
such expressions. NJ. Stolloff thereupon
published a brief notice through news
agency stating that the Lokal Anzeiger's
report was incorrect, and repudiating its
insinuations based on the interview as not
in accordance with the truth or his mean
ing. The tenor of this notice gave the
impression that M. Stoiloff did not care
what Austria thought and that he did not
intend to go to further trouble about the
matter
Receiving no satisfactory explanation,
much less an apology, Austria instructed
her Minister to Bulgaria to insist that
Sioiioff formerly declare that he did not
intend 10 offend and to express sincere re-
gret for having done so. In the event of
Stoiloff refusing Il do this the Minister
was to demand his passport.