New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
EmperOr'S Death Will Make
Domination Complete,
LOndOn'S View
RULERS DEATH CALM;
END CAME SLOWLY
Archduke Automatically
Becomes Monarch-Wil-
son Wires Sympathy
BY ARTHUR s. DRAPER.
Inr C.hle % The Tribpne ]

by Cable U Inc IrlbODe.I
London, Nov. 22.-The death OF En-
peror Francis Joseph is not expected TO
affect materially the future of the Dual
Monarchy unless by strengthening the
dominance of Berlin over the new FIN
peror.
The heir apparent. Archduke Charles
Francis Joseph, assumed the guidance
OF state affairs automatically tonight.
II is not likely that festivities OF any
kind will usher in his reign, certainly
not during the war.
The aged Emperor, no matter what
his responsibility for the origin OF the
war, had little influence in its conduct
The German General Staff gradually
usurped power until Austria-Hungary
became merely pawn. with standing
only a shade higher than Bulgaria and
Turkey.
Francis Joseph was regarded more as
father than as a ruler by his SUBJECTS
Had his death come before the war con-
ditions would have been much differ
ent. Now war has welded the people
and the factions. Their military set
backs stiffened rather than weakened
their spirit.
Austria VIII Suffer.
Germany's influence is not so remark
able when it is remembered that the
Kaiser has come to Austria's aid twice
at critical moments, while the driving
of the Rumanians out OF Transylvsnla
had big moral effect upon the hun
garians.
Germany will make the Dual MONARCHY
pay when the war is over, no matter
how IL ends, for Austria-Hungary is the
bridge 10 the Near East. Even consid-
ering the remote possibility Of VIC
torv for the Central Powers, Austria
would emerge weaker than when she
entered it. 81.
The new Emperor, a young soldler OF
twenty-nine, will be merely a hgure-
head during the war, with little 10 90 90
and nothing TO say, but after 1t ne VIII
have to carry a heavy burden.
Arrangements for the burial OF the
late Emperor have not yet been made,
saws a Vienna dispatch TO Reuter- but
the body will be inferred in the Ca
puchin Mausoleum next week, probably
on Thursday. On Monday the body Will
be removed from Schonbrunn Castle to
Hofburg Chapel, where it will lie in
state on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Emperor William was informed OF
the death of his ally Immediately, the
message being sent over the telephone
which links the headquarters of the
German army with Schoenbrunn pal.
ace. The Kaiser and Gar Ferdinand
of Bulgaria are expected to arrive at
the Austrian capital tomorrow. &C
cording to advices received here to-
night.
Held Empire Together
"The Westminster Gazette" reviews
the personal tragedies of the reign OF
Francis Joseph, and continues:
"Yet in spite of it all he carried on
his work. accepting his fate with res
ignation which till ten years ago had
become a habit, and earning by the mere
accumulation of misfortunes and length
of reign a position of great influence in
Europe and of high value to his empire.
He was the centre of an extremely un-
stable political system, and 1T seemed
good for the world that he should live
long enough for the cement to harden.
Then something happened, and 1t will
be the task of the historian to discover
exactly what"
that with the decay of the Turkish en-
pire it became the Austrian policy to
recover at the end of the reign OF
Francis Joseph what had been lost at
the beginning. The newspaper con-
tinues:
"How much he personally entered
into these schemes, how much they
were foisted on him by schemers in
Vienna, Budapest and Berlin, we have
no present means of knowing. Aus
tria- Hungary opened the tragic game
which eliminated in the present war
by the sudden annexation Of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
! Beginning OF Conquest Plan
I Done as it was In secret compact
with Germany, and clinched by threats
of war and shining armor, it cut at the
roots the entire European diplo-
matte system. From that time on
ward Vienna and Berlin were leagued
together in great pan-German, pan
Austrian scheme which was to open
the road TO the East for both of them
and divide control Of the Balkans and
what remained of the Turkish Empire.
1.-THE Standard" says:
at is too early to assess the specihc
responsibility Of the late Emperor for
the crime of 1914. Whether he was
forced into that crime, or gave him
self willingly, there is at present IN.
sufficient evidence to determine, but IL
is certain that the woes descended
upon Europe were the direct result OF
the subordination Of Austrian poncy
TO the ambitious rulers of modern Ger
msnv The senility of the En-
neror facilitated the evil work just as
+ assisted later in the process OF sub
iecting all the Hapsburg dominion to
Prussian control"
Sees No Change in Policy
Expressing the opinion that the
death Of Francis Joseph will have no
effect on the war, "The Standard" con-
tues: