Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-28
ARCHDUKE' 8 DEATH
PROBABLY CAUSED
BY KAISER, SAYS
NEW REVELATIONS
Emperor William and MagyarS
in Conspiracy Against Heir
to Austrian Throne; ASSaSS-
inatiOn Not Serbian Plot,
GEORGE CREEL MAKES
STARTLING DISCLOSURE
Gives to Press Summary of
Correspondence of Count
Czerninl Now in Hands of
Secretary of State Lansing,


New York, March 27.-George
Creel, former chairman of the com
mittee on public information, made
public here tonight a summary of the
secret correspondence of Count Ger
min, late foreign minister of Austria
Hungary, which was turned over to
Edgard Sisson at Prague by the GUS
todian official of the Bohemian gov
ernment on January "a, last. One of
the most sensational of the disclosures
was that there was German Magyar
conspiracy against the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to
the throne of Austria, who was as
sassinated at Sarajevo June Is, 1914,
because he was considered rival Of
the then Emperor william,
Mr.. Creel said Mr., Sisson accepted
the privilege of using the correspon-
government. Translators and a pho
tographer in the service of the com
mittee on public information were set
at work to translate the documents
for general publication in this country
as the final public contribution of the
committee, according to Creel. He
declared one copy was to be turned
over to Secretary of State Lansing for
use of the peace conference commits
sion investigating responsibility for
the outbreak of the war, while an
other was to be sent to the committee
at Washington for release to the press
He added that Mr.. Lansing's copy
undoubtedly was in his hands and
that the copy for the press probably
was on its way to this country.
Archduke Against Kaiser
In a report to Mr.. Ssson on the
scope of the letters, Capt. Emmanuel
Noska, u. S. A., head of the Prague
bureau of the committee on public
information, said
"From the documents and letters it
will be shown that Francis Ferdinand
was working on building up a strong
Austria which would eventually eman-
cipate itself from the influence of
Berlin. This was blocking Berlin's
plan for expansion toward the east
and the Berlin government came so
an understanding with the Budapest
government to offset the plans of
Francis Ferdinand.
From one of the letters it is evil
dent that the German emperor's son
E,itel Frederick, was selected to study
the Magyar language and to make
fl lends of the Magyar nobility.
although no positive proof was
found from the documents on hand
as to the conspiracy to kill Archduke
Ferdinand, it is sufficiently evident
that there was no conspiracy in Ser
bia for that purpose. The archduke
was rather friend of Serbia in hatred
of the Magyars, as he knew of the
conspiracy between the Berlin and
the Budapest governments,
Under Berlin Influence.
ut is shown from letters that when
A oh hal I'M
eign minister) annexed Bosnia in 1909
and Serbia protested through Russia
and was supported by England, Count
Czernin had an audience with Francis
Ferdinand The latter was against
war with Serbia as the powers would
say halt after Serbia was overridden
and nothing would be gained in such
a war. But Count Czernin, the chief
of staff was strongly for war. The
Austro Hungarian general staff was
strongly under the influence of the
German general staff.
ut Is also shown:
"GD-That strong centralized
Austria under Francis Ferdinand was
too strong a barrier against German
expansion toward the far east. Fran
els Ferdinand started to centralize
his power first with the creation of
ministry of the imperial court of
which the intention was to offset
Magyar power.
"(2)-That there was a strong op
position against the direct, secret and
common electoral right for Austria
and Hungary.
"(3)-That there was fusion of all
afistocrats and landlords in Austria
and Hungary for the support of the
emperor against peoples rights and
social democrats Feudaism and des
potism were supposed to return un-
der Francis Ferdinand. The emper-
or and the aristocrats with other
landlords wanted to rule. In Hun
gary Count Tisza and certain Mr..
Kristoffy were the secret support
ers of Francis Ferdinand through
Count Czernin. Other Hungarian
aristocrats according to documents,
We're German and called rebels
by Francis Ferdinand.
Dangerous to Kaiser.
"Again Francis Ferdinand was dan
gerous to the German emperor and
his aspirations. Emperor William
feared and hated the Slavs, but liked
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