Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22
AUSTRIA SNARLS At BRITAIN
England Had Better Attend to Her
Own" SAYS Press.
INTEREST IN NEW WARsHIPs
Little Love for Great Britain in
Vienna and There is
Chio ON the Public
shoulder.
BY EMIL ANDRAssY

VIENNA. May 21.-(Special Dispatch TO
The Bee)-Englsnd had better attend to
its own business. That Is the attitude
of the Vlenncsc press and unofficially of
the Austro-Hungarian government toward
the more or less anxious inquiries which
are being made in London as to Austria's
naval program and the suggestions that
it's new Dreadnought are really being
buided for Germany.
The disposition is 20 regard the English
attitude as closely bordering on the in
sulting.
The general feeling Is that Austria has
precisely the same right to build Dread
noushts as Germany, Russia, Italy and
Turkey, and that there is not the least
occasion for England to assume In this
fact any hostile intention on the part of
Austria.
In a leader recently the Ntue Freie
Fresso dwells upon the necessity for the
maintenance of confidential relations be-
tween Vienna and London, and remarks
that great praise is due to Sir Fairfax
Cartwright who has rescued English policy
from the deep embarrassment into which
it haG fallen. Then follows a VIOLENT at
tack upon Great Britain:
Turns Navy Into Old Iron.
1t is childish to attempt to place our
Dreadnoughts under German command and
1t is mere nonsense to invent the fable
of the common navy of the Triple AL
lance. The Dreadnought scourge is de-
wasting Austria only because England has
let loose this deceitful vampire, which
sucks the blood of the nations. For this
reason alone are Dreadnoughts built. Eng
land has, by its recent invention, turned
nearly all the navles of the world into
old iron and rendered them useless for
warfare. and therefore Dreadnoughts are
being laid down.
AS matter of fact, there is little love
for Great Britain here. 1t is felt that the
recent trouble between Russia over the
Bosns- Herzegovina coup was largely due
to British intrigue.
The clearing up of the sensational army
poisoning mystery by the confession of the
accused officer, Lieutenant Adolf Hof-
richter, has caused a general feeling of
relief.
The offence to which Lieutenant Hof-
richter has just confessed is among the
most remarkable in the annals of Grimm
ology. In the late autumn OF last year a
large number OF officers attached to the
general staff of the army at Vienna re-
pills, accompanied by circulars, bearing a
name, which was later discovered to be
spurious, praising the virtues of these
specifics for the treatment of various all
ments. Most of the gentlemen thus fav-
ored paid no attention to what was sup
posed to be merely the methods adopted
by some enterprising firm of pushing it's
wares.
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tain Nader, of the staff, thought that he
might as we'll experiment on himself and
accordingly he took some of the pills. He
was almost Immediately seized with illness
and despite all efforts to save him, he ex-
pired This fatal occurrence aroused sus-
piclon, the pills were analysed and 1t was
discovered that their principal ingredient
was cyanide of potassium.
| Lieutenant is Arrested.
An investigation was at once set on foot
and various circumstances eventually led
to the arrest of Lieutenant Hofrichter
who was placed in Jail at the close Of No
vember. Further inquiries showed that he
had bought a number of pill boxes exactly
similar to those in which the fatal pills
were enclosed, and some were actually
found at his residence. At the same time
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purchase of the cyanide of potassium
which, however, might easily have been
in the lientenant's possession for some time
as he was an amateur photographer and
would have no difficulty in obtaining q
supply OF cyanide, which is used in vari-
Gus Photographic processes. From the time
of his arrest down to his sudden and
dramatic confession Lieutenant HofrichteI
| 1. taI in, init innocence
and Austria was divided into two camps
the one comprising those who believe Hof'
richter guilty, and those who did not.