Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-13
EMPEROR CHARLES
QUITS THE THRONE
Abdication of Austrian Mon
arch Officially Announced
in Vienna.
HAD TURBULENT CAREER

HAD TURBULENT CAREER
BY the Associated Press
BASEL, Switzerland, Novem.
Der 13-Former Emperor Charles,
Empress Zita and their family
left Vienna at o'clock Tuesday
night for Eckartsau. according
to a dispatch from the Austrian
capital.
Eckartsau, where there II .
castle, II On the Danube river be.
tween Vienna and PFessburg. 1t
II on the north bank 81 the river
and about Afteen miles east Of
Vienna.
BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, November 13.-For-
mer Emperor Charles and his family
arrived yesterday at Eckartsau in an
automobile, says dispatch from
Vienna.
Emperor Charles on Monday, accord
ing to the Vienna Correspondents Blu
eau, issued the following proclama-
ton:
since my accession I have inces.
sanity tried to rescue my peoples from
this tremendous war. I have not de.
layed the re-establishment Of constitu-
<SA &hA nf a vv0
for the people to substantial national
development
"F'illed with an unalterable love for
my peoples, ! will not, with my per-
son, be q hindrance to their free de-
velopment. acknowledge the de-
cision taken by German-Austria ~
form a separate state.
"Ihe people has by its deputies
taken charge of the government 1
relinQuish every participation IN the
administration Of the state. Like.
wise, l have released the members of
the Austrian government from their
offices.
May the German-Austrian people
realize harmony from the new adjust
ment. Tho happiness OF my peoples
was my aim from the beginning. My
warmest wishes are that an internal
peace will be able to heal the wounds
Of this war (Signedl CHARLES"
(Couiftersigned) 'Iammasch."
COPENHAGEN. Wednesday, Novem-
Der 10. $3.50 a-m.-The abdication Of
Emperor Charles of Austria Is OFF,
cially announced at Vienna.
PARIS. November IL (Havas).-
Emperor Charles Of Austria has is
sued a manifesto declaring that he Is
L.. Let IN
affairs Of German Austria
Was Infantry omcer.
Emperor Charles was an unprornis-
ing major in an Austrian infantry
regiment whom the shot Of tho as
sassin who killed the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand Juno 2S. 1914. made
him the heir apparent to the throne
in tho Hawks Castle on the banks
of the River AAr.
Charles was born August II. 1887.
the son Of the late Archduke Otto OF
Saxony. He married tho Princess Eta
Of the Bourbon house OF Parma
(Italian) in 1911. When the Nunc
Dimittis was sung for his dead grand.
only achievements Of Charles brought
to public notice were that he was q
keen sportsman, an excellent shot and
motorist. Frequently he was seen IN
the parks Of Vienna wheeling one OF
his young dukes in q baby perambu-
When he succeeded to the throne on
December 30. 1916. Austria-Hungary.
torn by two years OF war, saw tho
FIRST faint CLEAN Of possible peace.
The course Of the new ruler was
the first six months Of his reign Aus
tria- Hungary was regarded as nero
German state. Hindenburg's successes
in Galicia in 1916. In which Charles
shared Al commander in the deld.
which enabled him to hold the Austri-
ans to the central powers until the
collapse Of Bulgaria and Turkey and
the final crash.
Long Line Of Monarchs.
Two hundred or more monarchs of
this historic house OF Hapsbufg ruled
for centuries the land Of Magyar.
Slav and Teuton-centuries Of blood
sleep their last sleep In the wonder
full crypt Of the Capauchin Church
in Vienna Emperor Francis Joseph.
the, aged pfedecessor OF the youth
sS' te Ws Saa hoped 70 unite te
diseordant elements among his 10000
0o0 subjects whose racial antaGon-
isms were complicated by tho ob1orp-
tion by Austria OF tho Serbian prov
inces Of Bosnia and herzegovina In
1908.
It was the Archduke Francis Fer
dinsnd's determination to bring about
Q triune empire made up Of Magyar,
Slav and German states, Il 10 generally
believed, that led to his assassination
in Sarstevo. Francis Ferdinand fear
upon the death Of Francis Joseph by
the Intervention Of Russia or Ger
many and sought thus to feFestalI It