Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-12
KAISER KARL
QUITS THRONE
Of AUSTRIA
Emperor Abiicates as Rev.
olution Spreads Thru
out Land.
LONG HAPSBURG
MISRULE ENDED
Last Of 200 or More Monarehs Of
Family to Rule Over Magyar, Siav
and Teuton-Came to Throne After
Country Had Been Plunged Into
War-Was Tool Of German kaiser
Reign Was Unhappy.

London. Nov 12-Emperor Charles
of Austria has ahdicated. according to
a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex-
chanse Telegraph Company. quoting
private aGMces from Viena.
Victor Adler leader of the Austrian
socialists. and Foreign secretary in the
German Austrian cabinet formed at
Vienna on Oct. 81, is dead. it is re-
ported. 4
1t is reported that general strike
will be declared in Vienna tomorrow.
1.-THE abdication of Emperor Charles
has been rumored several times in the
last twa weeks, bat none of these re-
ports has been confirmed. On Oct 30
it was reported ethatsshe had fled from,
Vienna but this report was denied by
Berlin newspaper. which said he
was at the Austrian capital on Oct.
30 a0dSthat he had been cordially re-
.ceiSed by the people.]
End Of Hapsburs Rule.
Emperor Charles I of Austria, king
of Hungary. was an unpromising major.
in an Austrian infantry regiment when
tbs shot of the assassin who killed the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June,
2S, 1914. made him the heir apparent
to the throne in the Hawks Castle
on the banks Of the river Aar.
Two hundred or more monarchs of
this historic house of Hapsburg irufeo
for centuries the landNf MagyarA Slav
and Teuton-centuries of bloodsheS
tyranny and aggression-anu s.us,.
their last sleep in the wonderful crypt
of the Capauchin Church in Vienna.
Emperor Francis Joseph, the aged pre-
'decessor of the youthful Charles. see
ing 'fhe handwriting on the wall" had
hoped to unite the discordant elements
among his 5O.o00.0O0 subjects whose,
racial antagonisms were complicated
by the absorption by Austria Of tne
Serbian provinces Of Bosnia and Her
Zegovina in 1908.
Z 1t was the Archduke Francis Fer
dinand's determination to bring ABOUT
a triune empire made up of Magyar,
Slav and German states 1t is generally
believed, that led to his assassination
in Sarajevo. Francis Ferdinand feared
the dual monarchy. might be ended
upon the death Of Francis Joseph by
the Intervention Of Russia or Germany
and sought thus to forestall IT..
Married italian Princess.
Charles was born Aug. II, fss7..
the son of the late Archduke Otto OF
Saxony. He married the Princess Zita
Of the Bourbon house Of Parma (Ital-
ian) in 1911. When the Nunc Dimittis
was sung fol. his dead granduncle, the
Emperor Francis Joseph, the only
achievements Of Charles brought to
public notice were that he was keen
sportsman. an excellent shot and
motorist. Frequently no was seen in
the parks of Vienna wheeling one OF
hts young dukes in q baby peram-
bulator. When he acceded TO the
throne on j Dec. 80. 1915. Austria Hun
gary. torn by fur years OF war, saw
the first faint CLEAN Of possible peace.
TIE course Of the new ruler was
regulated largely from Berlin and for
the arst six months Of his reign Aus
tria hungary was regarded as q mere
Germln state. Hindenburg's successes
in GaiIcsa in 1915 instwhich Charles
shared a. commander IN the held.
gave the young monarch prestige
which enabled him to hold the Aus.
TRANS to the central powers until the
so!.ac.e cs Bulgaria and Turkey and
the Anal crash. HI
Numerous peace overtures !. and
u,anoeuyrees characterized the diplo-
macy Of the dual monarchy after
Francis Joseph's death. preciPitated
doubtless by bread riots and other o'rt-i
breaks thruout Austria. Unable to.
maintain his pledge TO the German
emperor "to continue the war TO the
end" Charles made use OF the famous
"Dear sixtus" letter. an AUTOGRAPHED
missive written in April. 1913, to Prince
sixtus de Bourbon for transmission TO,
the French government in which the
monarch said Frances claim to Alsace-
Lorraine was justified.
Lot Far From Happy.
Altho the letter was denounced ~
"forgerr" in Vienna. the foreign Office,
ciaiminx Il had been written by &
yxoa1A II ecslssisstiS 1ks y b. 4 s ss been