The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-27
NEW ANGLE GIVEN DEATH STORY OF FRANZ FERDINAND
New Publication Purport tc Show Death Could Have
 Been Avoided.

! Copenhagen. July 27.-What purport to be hitherto unpublished facts re- lating to the assassination of Arch showing that he had a strong pre- 'monftion Of approaching death, are contributed to the Berlin Tageblatt by it's correspondent at the Austro- Italian front.
 The correspondents informants, lac- cording to this dispatch are persons of high standing, some of whom were eye witnesses to the Serajevo tragedy which has been described as Aavsng supplied the match that set the world aflame.
 Indications of the Archduke's sun- easiness, it is asserted, were appar- ent while he was driving along the quay at Trieste to board the steam ship for Serajevo. z~c repeatedly glanced up at houses fronting on the water, as if suspecting a bomb plot. At Cumaja Bridge, in Serajevo, Now ever, when Gabrinovitch hurled a bomb which landed on the collapsed top of the Austro-Hungarian heirs carriage, the Archduke showed re- markable presence of mind by sweep ing the death-dealing missile away with his hand. Falling to the ground. the bomb exploded. damag- ing the third automobile in the line of the parade and wounding the adpu- tant, Lieutenant-Colonel Count Mer- izzi.
 After thg injured officer had been removed to hospital, the archducal pair proceeded to the City Hall. At the conclusion of the ceremonies there, a consultation was held as to the advisability of carrying out the program which had been announc- cd for the royal visitors. Contrary to the accepted version of the epi- sode,. which described Ferdinand as insisting that the program be car ried out despite the urgent advice o1 members of his party in opposition to the plan, the heir to the throne is now quoted as shaving asked: What shall we do now? Shall we continue to permit ourselves to be shot dead ?''
 General Petrierck is said to have proposed either that the city should tbe punished by the cancellation o1 the program or that the streets be
 cleared and the ceremonies carried out as arranged. To the latter pro.
 posal, the Archduke, after brief re. flection, is said to have replied: | TO carry out the program after
 clearing the streets doesn't suite me
 We had better drop the program en.
 tirely. I only wish to visit Merizzi. , l In deference to the Archduke'.
 wishes, the party was divided. the
 royal pair proceeding on their wa,
 to the hospital to visit the wounded adjutant- In the prevailing confu. sion, according to the latest versfor of the tragedy, the chauffeur assign
 ed to the Archduke's car disregardet
 his instructions. Count Harrach. the officer who had been detailed to the
 Archduke's machine appeared on tn,
 running board of another car on tho
 opposite side of the street. When tn, Archduke's chauffeur started off ir
 the wrong direction, Count Harrach lit is said, called him to halt, thu.
 affording the assassin, Princip, ar
 unexpected opportunity to fire the
 fatal shots at Ferdinand and hi
 wife from a distance of only a. few
 feet.
 The Tageblatt's correspondent as
 serts that, after the bomb outrage fl
 which the adjutant was injured. Gen
 eral Petierok assured the Archduk,
 there would be no further attempt ,tt
 assassinate him, as plotters all hat
 been arrested. Ferdinand, however
 is described as having looked at hin
 somewhat sceptically and saying: "I don't believe ite We will ge severel bullets yet"