The Washington herald., 1914-05-03

forces in Italy and Tyrol. where tn,
Of the enemy"
Marie Louise I'm Flight.
The imperial family and the aristoc-
racy were in flight from Vienna The
daughter. the Archduchess Marie Louise,
found herself once more. as eight years
before, driven by Napoleon from her
palace home. The little wanderer among
the castles of Hungary and Gallicia wrote
friend from one OF her refugees: God
must be very wroth with US. Our family
Is all scattered; my dear parents are at
Olmutz: We are at Kaschan; there is q
third colony at Ofen." But she strova
to keep up her courage with the philoso-
phic assurance that the time must come
when the usurper will lose heart. Per-
haps God has let him go so far to make
his ruin more complete, when He shall
have abandoned him"
Meanwhile Napoleon was moving re-
ientlessly onward toward the Austrian
capital sounding as he went this warn
ing to Marie l-ouise's family: II advise
TO make peace quickly. II is the moment
To remember that all empires have a
term The idea that the end of the
dynasty of the Hapsburgs is at hand
ought to alarm him
Napoleon In Vienna.
When he appeared before the walls Of
vienna, the very walls which 10 years
before had stood like a dixie to sjop A
flood of Turks from pouring over Christi
endom. the gates Of the city were opened
70 hiIn without waiting for him to knock.
For the first time he entered the con-
guered capital OF sovereign and made
himself at home in the palace of a fugi-
i've monarch. Marie LOuises favorite
nome. the lovely Schoenbrunn.
Without firing a shot he had become
the master of a city with a population
Of 10000 inside the walls and large sub
lIrhs living outside its fortifiCations. The
defenders OF Vienna had vanished before
MIN only TO hasten northward and unite
with the Russians among the hills OF
MOravia. Their rear guard was prepar-
ing as the French entered the capital,
10 destroy the ThabOr Bridge over the
Danube and arrest the pursuit That exit
from the city. however was saved by a
sharp. il inglOrious. trick
me destructive COmbustibles were all
IN place on the bridge and ready to bs
sGoSned apoGn on. when, apparently strolling
appeared. waving their white handker-
Gnleis Ths In sign Of a peaceabIe mission.
Ihey declared that an armistice had
could not question the word OF a prince
and a marshal The guardians Of m,
bridge having been thus deceived. a
force of French grenadiers suddspI~
dashed out of concealment behind some
trees at the Vienna end and took posses-
sion OF the structure
Retribution.
That barefaced cheat brought ouick
retribution to one of its neTnetrafor.
only few days later. when the French
new campaign which was to come 10 i.s
climax at Austerlitz. Having led his
command over the stolen bridge and
pressed forward thirty miles into the
country, Murat Unexpectedly came upo1
a force OF the enemy which he sllnposSd
10 6e the main Russian army, but which
really mad been left there merely TO de-
tain him in his advance until the srnSv
could tall back. Imagining himself great
y outnumbered, he announced again that
an armistice had been adopted
He was now dealing With Muscoyi,s
craft. and not with Austrian credulItv-
The Russian commander, Prince Ragra-
statement, for it suited his purpose per
fectly, and one of the Russian officers in
the camp pretended to be an aid of the
Car himself. who had specially author
Prince Murat. But while Murat de-
lightedly dallied in the society of a real.
born prince, the Russian army was put
French
Napoleon. still at Vienna. was in a rage
over the counterfeit armistice which had
Break it at once" he commanded by
courier. 1T is nothing but a ruse. .
The aid de camp Of the Emperor of Rus
how you can have let yourself be made
fool of to this extent!'
The scales were rudely struck from the
eyes OF the OuIWiIteO MuraI- VINO fur1-
ously sailed into his false friend. the
Russian prince, and when the mad on
slaught ceased at midnight there was not
roof left on a house in the unhappy
village that had been the scene of their
fraterniEing. But the prince had gained
for his army the precious time 1t required
and II was now well on its way to Join
a new allied army, where the Car Alex
ander and Emperor Francis were conf
IDENTIFY planning to crush the Corsican
upstart who had dared to assume the i'm.
perial rank.
tCOpsTisht, lsisli. b. James Mors.aS