Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-13

Ferdinand has felt 30 resentfui against
Great Britain that no communications
have passed since May. To his mind. tho
British clinging to etiquette on this oc.
casion is q personal attack on himself.
He does not acknowledge Queen Mary as
a member OF the royal family at all. She
IL the descendant Of a morganatic mar
riage herself. and. in the eyes OF the
archduke. has no right to be particular
The situation Is aTnusingiy stupid, were
il not SO serious. Queen Mary Ia the
his father was the son OF Prince OF
Wurtemberg. who married morganatically.
His wife, Queen Mary's grandmother, was
one OF the most beautiful and most highly
born OF the Austrian artstocracy but the
hide-bound court OF Vienna refused to
give he~ equal rank with her husband.
year or two after the birth Of her SOIL
who was made the Duke OF Teck by the
King Of Interchangeable was ridden
down and trampled TO death In blunder-
ing charge Of Austrian cavalry. a Hans
burg, filed with pride in his long de-
scent. cannot regard Queen Mary as OF
equal rank with queen of more regular
qualifications.
but the archduke means business IN
other ways. Six years ago lie care 10
the front and began 10 play q poliicab
role. with a general support from the
German emperor. Both by Temperament
and by training the future ruler OF the
dual monarchy Is a soldier. For army
affairs he has shown the greatest ze-f.
and the first thing he did was 10 force
out OF control OF the army OLD MATS al
Beck and put a new man in who would
carry out his ideas. He proceeded to re-
organize the army, his chier lieutenant
being Gen Baron Conrad Won Hotzen-
dorf who was made head OF the STAFF.
They did splendidly and worked mar
g. xx-,Ar hn nRchdfflya
first blow In high politics by the seizure
OF Bosnia Austria had modified 10 81
c-et over 3O0.OD0 men. II Gen Ban on
Conrad was his man of the sword, he
Count d'Aerenthal. who so successfully
imposed his masters will on Europe
when the crisis Of the new Turk move
ment gave him his chance
But a parting OF the ways has arr1vod'
Count dAererthai has gone too slow for
he arcbduke. and an intrigue Is on foot
which will end shortly, / have no doubt,
n the Austrian foreign hecretary's dis
nissal. The emperor. Francis Joseph, Is
packing up the threatened foreign min
ster. but cannot manage TO resist tho
pressure that Is being put Upon him by
he great military party which wants
var. The truth Is that they were not
he diffculty regarding Bosnia. They
wanted war and glory. and to so much
urther in the way OF adventures. Tho
Ount would give no assistance to Gtr.
Baron Conrad when he demanded from
he finance minister an addition TO the
lrmy vote Of $25,000.O00 an extraor-
inary vote OF $6O.O00.OOO. Tho finance
Minister refused the money, and Baron
10 Schonaich, who was war minister.
Importing him, tho latter was got rid
4 Immediately by the archduke.
Italy Object Of Attack.
That the object was an attack on Italy
,as unquestionablc II italy could be
to restore the temporal power.
he Pope would force the emperor to
i've the archduke's wife her rank. For
nree years Gen. Baron Conrad had been
uietly removing troops from Galicia and
,assing them on tho Itaiian-Tyrol from
MS moment. In point OF fact, placed At
ne sugs estion OF the archduke. Sudden
, came the war between the Italians and
he Turks for Tripoli. and Count d'Aercn-
AL saw that with Italy engaged pernapa
,r. long wears in settling Tripoli she wac
| no position to stir up unrest In the Bal.
The Austrian foreign minister in think.
" thus was taking large. views of tho
tuation, and Vienna, AZ q result, showed
erself much more favorable 70 tho Ital-
10 action than did Berlin. But that
ID not suit the archduke. He wished tho
.ised. Count d'Aerenthal would have
Dne of II, and the emperor vetoed the
ea. He hes done more and ACTUALLY
smissed Gen. Baron Conrad. who closed
s period OF command with q message
lat is remarkable for its suayc ineo-