New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-29
Sends kilograms of SYM
pathy to Vienna-Puts
Off Court Ball.
LONDON FORESEES
TURMOIL IN EUROPE
Change in Austrian Succession
Bound to Affect Profoundly
Continents DeStinieS.
AZ CabIe 70 The Tribune.l

(By Gable to The Tribune.l
London, June 29.-The news Of the
assassination OF the Austrian heir-ap-
parent and his wife reached the King
yesterday from the Foreign Office. His
Majesty at once dispatched kilograms
of sympathy and ordered all Court af-
fairs cancelled. The state ball, which
was to have taken place to-day, has
been postponed. Court mourning has
been ordered for a week.
In unofficial London the opinion
seems 20 prevail that the crime could
not be attributed to any political in
triguos, but rather 10 the inherent
hatred of the Serbs for their Austrian
neighbors, which has become more Bit
ter since the recent events in the
Balkans, in which the Serbs charge
Austria with taking part against
Servia.
The crime of Sarayevo will undoubt-
eddy have a profound effect on the
destinies of all Europe. The dead
Archduke was a detached and some
what mysterious figure, deeply devoted
to the Roman Catholic Church, intense
ly Teutonic in his prejudices and re-
: lentless Slavophobe. Had he lived to
ascend the imperial throne there was a
possibility that his eldest son by his
morganatic wife might have succeeded
him, for although on his marriage he
renowned the right of succession for
his future children, the remuneration
, might have been rescinded by Papal
decree. For this his ambitious wife
had long been scheming.
New Heir Apparent.
The new heir apparent is the young
Archduke Charles Francis Joseph, eld-
est son of the murdered Princes broth
er, the Archduke Otto, who died in
1906. The young heir, who was born in
! 1887, is a favorite of the old Emperor,
who had him specially educated with
| a view to the succession. He married
! three years ago Princess Zita, twelfth
Of the twenty children Of the Duke OF
Parma. She is a Bourbon, and by a
strange mutation of fate a Bourbon
may again be placed on one of the
/ great thrones of Europe. One of Arch
duchess Zitas sisters is a nun in the
/ Isle of Wight.
Rightly or wrongly, the dead Arch
duke was credited with having ambi-
tions for the further extension of
/ Austrian territory toward the Gulf of
/ Salonica, which would, IL attempted,
lead to a conflict with Austria's neigh
bors, and thus again cause a rupture
between the dual monarchy and Rus
STA.
While all peaceful actions Of the
monarchy were said to be initiated by
the Emperor, every forward naval or
military movement was just as readily
credited to the Archduke, who on
these occasions, was referred TO as the
power behind the throne or as an en-
ergetic and ambitious prince. He in
variably sided with the military party
of his country whenever it came into
conflict with the civil authorities, and
/ this had on occasion led TO the charge
that he would not even be averse to
going to war with Austria's ally, Italy,
/ if it would in any way increase Aus
/ TITAN influence in the Near East.
The Archduke's friendship for the
/ German Emperor also gave his enemies
/ in Europe an opportunity TO accuse
him of favoring an aggressive policy,
and it had been a fetish in the CONT
mental capitals that when he came 10
the throne there would be an end to
the peace that had prevailed among
! the great powers.
Where he was better understood,
however, the Archduke was given credit
for being an ardent patriot, whose only
ambition was TO maintain the greatness
of his country, which he believed could
only be accomplished by making the
army and navy such as TO be feared by
the strongest enemy. Personally, the
/ Archduke and his wife were almost as
great favorites in England as they were
in German court circles. They were
frequent visitors TO London, generally
coming ;ncognito because Of the court
etiquette, which prevented the duchess
from being officially recognized for the
reason that she was not Of royal blood.
Last year the Archduke and the Ouch
css visited King George and Queen
Mary at Windsor and were shown every
/ possible attention.
IL was generally believed that upon
the Archduke's accession Hungary
would recognize the Duchess as Queen
Of Hungary, and that in time the Arch
duke would succeed in getting Austria
TO recognize her as Empress Consort.
although their children could never
hope to ascend the throne.
Those who met them on their visits
to England describe the Archduke and
his wife as a much attached couple, en-
tirely free from any atfectation. They
moved about among friends in Eng
land, and besides visiting at the royal
palaces spent many weeks at different
times in English country homes. From
the beginning Francis Ferdinand was
deeply attached 20 his wife, and be-
fore the marriage OF the couple all
the efforts of the Emperor and of the
court 20 break OF the attachment were
unavailing.