Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-30

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Of no military importance. was quite
clearly to be noted-a very beautiful
woman. The man beside the girl was
tai, and bore himself we'll But he was
clothing was torn and streaked with
blood. One. sleeve of his shirt was
missing; ms. M and his bare arm was bandaged !,
stained cloth. And as he looked, the
man smiled and saluted.
colonel Galenski returned the salute.
vo,T mYou ola, will lower the drawbridge If
yoM please. ! wish to enter"
-, The man disappeared for a moment,
e loud s,di ciattnr cSeins nm and presently with
mace mace necessary some excellent feats Of
,lo ,nloorseintanship tip by the. men of the COM
56any 6ay behind him, the drawbridge crashed
ward through the gate, followed by the
company of horsemen, who wheeled by
Tours nn nrr; into line and halted in the court
. Colonel Galenski dsmounted, neglect.
Ing ing no detail of the signs of combat. the
pthulleti-sGarred th tagging, the broken rock,
sha m oefsi of IN ,he & tW9 figures lying in the
-. FROM below. with my classics, I saw
Inc, tne ,ra a,uistrlans y attacking your. draw
phrldge, thnl he said. There were many of
they?' "here ai'
,eI The h ,,,7 tall man smiled and took the
souiS "OIIldn Dy the hAnd.
i beg to present you to my garrison"
ne in :, said I with laugh. Countess Mar
ishKI mfSp hni-and-er--?' -"
mentMhorssG TolGnel Galenski Z Of the Fifth Reg-
DOW; w And you. sir--who are your"
70 ne ,h iall man extended grimy hand
10 the immaculate Russian
VIII tell you that, sir if''-and he
ette." " 'e"i
In regard to the Evidence in the Case
IF THE reader of this book is not in
l. clned to accept the prima -facie evil
dence as presented in the newspa pers
from official sources with regard to the
assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand
and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg
he isrreferred by the publishers to the
very interesting article by Mr.. Henry
Wickham ,:Steed called THE Pact of
ENontopisht.. EeIt' printed in the Nineteenth
as is well known, was for twenty YEARS
me correspondent in Vienna of the Lon
uon Ilmes, and is also the author of
me the latest and presumably the most au-
thoritatiXe work in English on the
tro-Hungarian Government and ths
House of Habsburg ~
me facts presented in that article. be-
EEinnlng Elnn witt. with the open breach between
marriage to Sophie Chotek the entente
between Kaiser and Archduke al Eckart.
Eau and Potsdam; the seizure of the
Archdukes papers by the Austrian Gov
efnment after the assassination the in
Stfuctlons to the Saraievo police from
ne military authorities of Austria-
llungary to make no special arrange
llents for the Archduke's protection:
me fact that no evidence has ever been
adduced proving the completely of the
| '3,erpian government; the funeral of the
Archduke and Duchess, at which no
Joseph. by the Archduke's sister, or any
member of the Austro- Hungarian inn
Per!aI family; the inadequacy OF the
| formal arrangements for burial and the
| obvious intention of the court authorities
to pay as little honor as possible to the
dead; the exclamation of the Kaiser
curing klei week when the news of the
assassination was brought to him, Now
must begin all over again''-these facts
| must be considered as circumstantial
eEdenen hn nee of the most positive sort that
| taFor and suspicion by the imperial
FAMILY of Austria. What actually hap
pehed at konopisht of course will never
| tive evidence that a pact Of the chara cter
suggested in this story was made in the
rose garden OF the castle and that Won
4!ip;tz was witness to it.
| Whatever the police records show with
regard to Gabrinovitz and Prinzep, the
| former. who threw the bomb, the latter
| VINO Gld the killing, no successful effort
has been made to show that they were
employed by the Serbian Government,
nor is it probable that Serbia would
nave promoted plot which would give
\ ;tustria-Hunsary pretext for assailing
her, 4, preteXt that Austria Hungary had
already sought. The story of the be-
%innngs of the great war has shown
| how she found it.
In the light of. the ascertained facts
concerning the production of anti-Ser-
blhn forgerleS employed by Austria dur
ing the annexation crises of 19OS-O9, and
| exposed during the Friedjung trial of
December. 1909, it certainly would not
| be beyond the power of Austro-Hun-
sarian secret service agents to cook up
plot at belgrade or Sarajevo We're it
| considered desirable. for reasons of i'm.
perial policy, either to remove" OBJ
| noXious personages or to provide a pre-
text for war
The dream of an empire from HAM
| burg to Salonica is as yet a dream, but
that 1t was dreamed in Potsdam no. one
doubts
(THE END)