Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-09
PLOT To RESTORE
AUSTRIAN KA|SE R
CONSIDERED JOKE
Prince Ludwig of WindiSch-
graetz Declared to Have
Taken S1,200,OO0 to Swift
zerIand With Him.
by Beatrice baskerville.
Copyright, 1919. by the Press Pub
fishing Co.

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Especial Gable Dispatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal.)
Vienna, Austria, Jan, S.-Rumors of
plots to restore the Hapsburg monar-
chy have been floating about Vienna
for some days, cafe gossips even at
tributing such efforts to England
while serious papers like the Vienna
Reichspost actually published a cable
from Budapest yes erday afternoon
saying that the Duke of Connaught is
candidate for the hungarian throne,
and solemnly warning him that IL he
insists upon being placed there
through entente influence he will
share the fate of the Prince of WED
in Albania.
But the latest news from Hungary
places the restoration runors in quite
another light, involving Prince Lud-
wig Of Windischgraetz, a Magyar
magnate related to Count Szechenyi
who married Gladys Vanderbilt. THIS
time 1t is not case of rumors but Of
facts. The prince is now in Switzer-
land, whittier he carried sums OF Aus
trian money so large that his dumping
thereof in the Swiss market caused
Austrian foreign exchange to fall with
a slump, for which neither the Aus
trians nor the Magyars are grateful,
Budapest reports the scandal is as
summing larger proportions. because
the prince took $l200,000 in Switzer-
land, where he had been conferring
with Count Rerchtold former Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, and Count
Mensdorffs former Austro- Hungarian
ambassador to the Court of Saint
! James, working with them to further
| the monarchial movement in favor of
! former Emperor Karl.
The most remarkable part of the
story is that these moneys passed into
| the princes hands frcm the famous
| Hungarian Potato Traffic bureau, a
| government organization which forced
| all potato producers to sell their goods
| to the bureau, which retailed them TO
| Austria and made enormous profit by
! doing SO, instead of reselling to Hun
| garian citizens at cost price, as was
! originally intended.
The princes friends do not deny
/ that he had the money when goins
! to Switzerland, but confine themselves
| to the state that it was used for a
| political and national purpose,
! The Journal correspondent learns
| from well Informed quarters that the
| prince actually used, and is using, sthe
| money for the restoration of the Haps.
burg dynasty. 10
Nobody takes this seriously here
because neither Austria nor Hungar,
has the least intention to return te
| the monarchy, and Austrians, at any
rate, remark that one of the bright
spots in tKe present dull outlook is
fact that the country has once
(. and for all rid Itself of the expensive
and despotic Hapsburg rule, but the
incident proves how little the politica
| relics of the old regime like Counts
! Berthtold and Mensdorff and Prince
| WindschgraetZ who formerly was
! Hungarian food controller, are ii
| touch with Austrian political realities
/ now.
Refugees, who arrived yesterday
| evening from Pressburg, the ancien
Hungarian capitalf state that fighting
occurred there Thursday between the
! Hungarian rcd guard and the Hun
garan police The police lost the
(, battle and were driven into the city
i hall and shut up there; then the mol
| plundered the vast military stores
taking large quantities of flour, SUI
| gar and other foodstuffs
Yesterday Czech irregular troops II
| military uniform appeared before the
city, but the hungarian authorities
| refused to let them enter. Later OF
| Czech regulars arrived and demandeo
| admttance. Their commander con
I ferred with the Hungarian command
/ err and arrived ut an agreement where
| by the Czechs now occupy the rail
way station and Danube harbor.
The Czechs have cut off all tele-
| phone communication between Press
burg and Budapest, and also between
| Pressburg and Vienna. The Czechs
I also are reported to have torn up the
rails near the city, thus divertng
| traffic between Viena and Budapest
| to one circuitous route via Bruck on
| the Leith and to have taken posses
| sion of the roadway from Vienna to
| Pressburg. However, the electric line
! from Vienna to Pressburg. the favor
| lite route of food seekers who get sup
| plies from the accent Hungarian cit
| ties, is still running.
Germans are flying here from Press
| burg, while the Hungarians are taxi
| ing refuge in the interior of Hungary
| and at Budapest. The ten days pro-
+, ceeding were bloodless. The Czechs
| claim Pressburg but the Hungarians
| affirm the population is overwhelm-
| ingly Magyar Some time ago the
| Czechs announced their intention of
| taking possession of the city and
| changing it's name to Wilsonstown.