The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
AUS.TR|A-HUNGARY
FOLLOWS ENGLAND
In the Building of New and
Powerful Battleships
TWO BEING CONSTRUCTED
Two Visitors In Austrian Town Fight
Desperate But B1oodIess Duel
Through the Newspapers.
Novel Double Suicide

Vienna, August 14--(Special)--The re-
cent speech of the English prime minister,
in which he spoke of the Austrian naval
programme as a mystery, has aroused
much indignation here where the feeling
to England is not over-friendly at its
best.
In speaking of the matter the News
Freie Presse says:
The Austro-Hungarian government has
made clear it's intentions with regard to
the building of Dreadnoughts on several
occasions, and it is absolutely no secret
that Austria-Hungary has already begun
the work. 1t is known that the Stabili-
mento Tecnico at Trieste, which is respon-
sible for the building of almost all the
warships for our navy, has already two
Dreadnoughts in the course of construc-
ton.
As the department of the navy could
not advance the funds for the under.
taking without first obtaining parlia-
mentary authority. the Stabilimento de-
cided to build the first two Dreadnoughts
at its own cost The government will de-
eide on its course of action when the del
egations have sanctioned the expenditure
1t is expected that the estimates to be
laid before the delegations, which will
probably met at the beginning of No
vember, will include the first and second
installments of payment for the two
Dreadnoughts. The other two that are
projected will be laid down next year, and
are to be built at the naval shipyards
at Pola, or possibly at the works of the
Danubius company at Fiume.
I'VE in Austria-Hungary merely follow
the movement for which the British isles
gave the signal"
A duel even less dangerous than any
Partisan journalists encounter is reported
to have taken place recently in Hungary.
Two visitors in certain town quar-
relied in a certain cafe, and the following
morning the local newspaper published
an advertisement from one of the disput-
ants addressed to the other in the follow
ing terms:
Sir: A gentleman cannot send his sec
onds to person of your quality. Kindly
consider that your face is slapped on both
cheeks. You can feel grateful that I
do not ask you to consider yourself
caned."
The bloodthirsty opponent replied also
per advertisement in the next days issue
of the Journal. ITO my excellent adver-
L
only in writing Kindly allow me in re-
ply to say I have fired six revolver bull
lets into your head. Consider yourself,
therefore, as dead, and receive my best
respects
Duels conducted on THESE lines would
obviate nasty wounds and blood-letting,
and would also prove profitable to the
newspapers.
Two rich Hungarian landowners, Paul
Kovacs, aged 70, and Emmerich Juhasz,
aged s., who had for many years been
nelghbors, and on extremely friendly
terms. decided to end their lives together
because both had become intolerable ow-
ing to incurable diseases.
They uncovered a deep we'll on the es-
tate of Juhasz, hung bags filled with
stones round their necks, tied their left
hands together and then jumped into the
well, where their bodies were subse-
quently found by the servants. The
large estates were left to distant rela-
tives.
A terrible family tragedy Is reported
from Budapest, where Joseph Molnar, a
postoffice employee and the father of five
young children, sent his wife under some
pretext to town, and when she left killed
all of the five children with his razor,
finally infiicting deadly injuries on him.
self.
Before expiring he said that he pre-
ferred his children should die rather than
suffer from such terrible poverty, his
monthly salary only being 55s. Frau Mol
mar, at the sight of the six bodies, be-
came insane.
A decision of the courts at Trieste Is
causing great indignation among the
young people of Austria. Henceforth Low
ers will be liable to a summons If they
misplace stamp either on a letter or
postal card. Formerly to place stamp
at certain angle was to express undying
affection and other missals of love.
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