The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-14
Memorial Erected at Lisbon in
Honor of Assassins of Late
King Carlos.
BY LA MARoUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

! Bf LA MAR0UISE DE FONTESOY.
LINK CONSTANTINE OF Greece
~ and his widowed mother
Queen Olga. must have been
| astonished to receive messages
of coincidence on the assassination
of the late King George from the Pres
| ident and from the Parliament of the
republic of Portugal, for the world has
hitherto been under the impression
| that the new regime at Lisbon approved
OF the crime of regicide. 1t is impos
sible to construe in any other way the
action Of the chief magistrate and leg
!slature of the Portuguese republic In
! erecting memorial museum at Lisbon
In honor Of the assaSsins OF the late
King Carlos and of his eldest son.
Crown Prince Luis, while within it's
ortals the visitor is invited to yener-
tie the actual carbines and revolvers
with which the Portuguese regicides
murdered their ruler
The great powers boycotted King
Peter of Servia and his government
for number of years, owing TO his
having reached his bloodstained throne
at Belgrade through the shocking
assassination of his Inflated predcces-
sor, King Alexander. and for permit
ting the murderers to remain in high
office among his encourage, thus CON
Veying the impression that he was in
some way implicated In their crime
1t is difficult to understand why the
people now In power at Lisbon should
not be subjected to similar ostracism-
not because OF the ASA ssination OF the
King. but because they openly and Off
cially approve and glorify plain, ordi-
nary, brutal murder.
Count Duglas Thurn-V alsassina, Aus
trias ambassador at st. Petersburg. is
in the BLACKLIST of books Of his govern
ment' has been summoned to Vienna.
and, according to reports from there.
VIII not be permitted to return to the
banks of the Neva, but will be shelyed
without any of the customary tokens
OF imperial appreciation. 1t seems
that when the joint Austro- Russian
communique to the public, agreeing TO
the rehabilitation of the troops along
the frontiers, was issued ut St Peters
burg clause was added in which Aus
tria was said to have intimated that
she had no aggressive intentions to-
wards her southern neighbors Count
1hurn seems to have given his consent
TO this addendum, without the author
ity or his government and without no
tifying 1t. When the tenor of the adj
dendum first became known at Vienna
II was regarded as a piece of gross bad
faith on the part OF the Russian Min
lister of Foreign Affairs. NJ. Sazonoff,
who was at once made the object of
violent attacks in the official and semi
official Austrian press in connection
herewith. Not until NJ. de Glers the
Cars ambassador at Vienna, notified
the Austrian government that Count
Thurn had given his formal sanction
to the addendum did they become award
of the fact. and then, of course. apol-
ogies to NJ. SaZonoff and to the For
eign Department ut St Petersburg were
In order
Count Thurn seems to have been led
to thus exceed his instructions by his
unfortunate anxiety to maintain at all
costs friendly relations between his
own government and that to which he
was accredited. But he has thereby
incurred the wrath OF the authorities
at Vienna, and in particular the anger
of his future Emperor, the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand. who is determined
not to yield an Inch TO tho demands
made by Austria upon her southern
neighbors, and to enforce them IL nee
essary by means Of war.
The house of Thurn -Valsasslra to
which the unfortunate ambassador be-
longs is of Milanese origin and la the
main line of the old italian noble house
Of De la Tore. Thurn being the Ger
man rendering thereof. Tho Thurns
received their title OF Baron of the
Holy Roman Empire In 1882. and were
advanced to the rank OF counts by EN-
Teror Charles v. in 1541. An italian
branch, which retains the name OF De
In Tore, is still dourishing in Italy. at
Verona.
1t is excitement on the subject OF
politics that Is responsible for the SEN