Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-29


sARAYEVo. Bosnia. June "a
Martial law was proclaimed today.
both in the city and the district -
Sarayevo. in consequence of the as
sassination Yesterday of Archduks
Francis Ferdinand and the Duchess
of Hohenberg.
Death masks Of the Arehduke and
the Duchess were taken TODAY and
the bodies placed on a catafalpue in
the chapel of the palace aDd =sszz.z
f0onded By magnificent display Of
wrea tbs and other floral enlblens
from all parts of the country
According to the semi -officiai report
Of the tragedy, when Gavrio Prinzip.
the young assassin. fired the fatal
shots. Field Marshal Oskar Potiorek.
governor Of Bosnia. was seated in the
archdukes motor car. Count Francis
Won Harrach was standing on the
foot board Of the car acting as
shield to the occupants. of whom he
had constituted himself the special
bodyguard after the bomb had been
thrown a short time before by Nedeito
Gabrinovics.
Archduke Was Joking
The archduke was joking with the
count about his precautions when the
reports of several shots rang out.
The aim of the assassins was SO
true that each OF the bullets inflicted
mortal wound
For an instant after the attack
Field Marshal Potiorek thought the
archduke and the duchess. seated
opposite him. had again escaped.
Neither the archduke nor the duchess
uttered a sound. but a moment af-
terWard il was seen that they had
| been hit.
Lieutenant Colonel Erik MerJzzi,
who had been wounded by the bomb
| in the first attack. was today pro-
nounCed out Of danger. while the in
| jury sustained by Count Van Boos-
Waldeck is said 10 be insignificant.
students Try TO Punish serbs.
The Croatian students here today
made several attempts to punish the
Serbs. but the troops were called in
and maintained order.
GabrinoVics ii was learned today.
! had been expelled from Sarayeno two
/ years ago but had been recently per-
/ mitted to return through the inter-
vention of a Socialist member Of the
/ Bosnian diet
/ Some Servian students here when
/ they heard the news of the assassina-
| ton shouted: Thank God we need
not do it ourselves. They we're ar
rested as accomplices Of the assas-
/ sins.
/ LONDON. June es.-Every dispatch
+ today from Saravevo and Vienna
i brought additional evidence that the
j assassination of Archduke Francis
/ Ferdinand and the Duchess of Heller-
I berg was one of the most carefully
planned crimes ever carried out
/ against royal personages.
/ Plot Formed in BelErave.
/ Indications from the scene Of the
+ ragedy show that it was engineered
by persons possessing more mature
! organizing ability than that Of. the
youthful assassins. 1t is generally
F thought in Austria and Hungary that
/ the plotters had their headquarters IN
/ Belgrade. the Servian capital,
/ SerVian hatred of Austrians, which
+ always has been violent. has been fp-
mented by the newspapers in Bel-
grade and by agitators throughout
( Servia and Bosnia. who have helped
TO infame the minds Of the students
and to induce them to sacrifice their
+ lives in the belief that they will 60
down TO history as patriots.
Yesterdays crime seems likely to
have a contrary effect 10 that de-
sired by its authors Even befOre
/ the bodies OF the murdered coupls
1 have been inferred, the Austrian att
thorities are contemplating severe
measures against the Serbs among
/ the inhabitants of Austria and Boz
! MIA These measures were likely
! further to embitter the relations be-
tween the two countries as well. as
I those between Austria. and Russia,
the protector of all the Serbs
Archduke Was Aware OF Danger.
( Archduke Francis Ferdinand. IL Is
I asserted today, was well aware Of
/ the danger he was running during
7 his tour of Bosnia. which he under
took as inspector general of the
forces of the empire. This title was
conferred upon him last year hy
Emperor Francis Joseph His chief
task was to inspect the Austrian
army. which guarded the serviae
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