The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-27
EXILED RULER IS ENJOYING LIFE
 IN MADEIRA

dial to the former Emperor Charles and the former Empress Zita of Aus tria, Hungary who have been ex- fled here. They have vied with one another in offering their residences, lands and motor cars to the former ly royal couple.
 The peasants offer flowers to Zita wherever she goes and she often re- turns to the villa, Victoria, their home with her arms filled with floral gifts.
 Charley goes to church every morn ing carrying his prayer book and ros- ary.
 ! Punishment of trouble making former n,onarchs to islands cf the sea far from their one-time domin- ions is an uncommon procedure but precedent for the plight of former Emperor Charles is found in the his toric case of Napoleon l. who passed six years on St. Helena in tha south Il land a prisoner more than 2 cen tury ago.
 1 St Helena is not only much smaller 1 than Madeira but. comnared to the latter. is as "a devils island" to paradise. Five-sixth of it's area is devoid of vegetation and. aside from an army garrison, there is no big an army garrison. there are no big Madiera. five times the size of St Helena. is an ocean garden spot Fnrchal. it's chief citv. has nopn- latior of more than 20 GOO and the is1aNd. one If group of four owned by Portugal, produces some of the most famous wines and laces in the 1 fruits. grains and sugar. Oxen are mainly used for agricul'ure. instead of draft horses ard other farming l methods are primitive Less than two percent of the people can read
 and write.
 The portugese military garrison is very small and Charles, Zita and
 their six small children if the al
 lied mowers permit, may have every
 freedom except an unchaperoned
 ocean voyage. Napoleon was guard
 cd day and night by soldiers.
 Madeira, the Portuguese word for
 forest" is directly in the Atlantic ocean trade routes. St. Helena, a i British naval coaling station, often
 doesn't see a ship for days. Ma | deira is a port of call and thus is
 kept in daily touch with the out
 side world. The island, 400 miles west of Morocco. has temperate
 climate. It is 12 miles wide and 25 miles long and elliptical in shape.
 Three other islands nearby complete i the Madeira group. They are Porto
 Santos which, with Madeira, have
 population of 100000 and the Des-
 ertas and Selvagens, two smaller isl ands of volcanic origin. The latter
 are uninhabited rocky formation jut-
 ting out of the sea.
 After the collapse of the Central l Powers in 1918, Charles and Zita
 sought refuge in Switzerland where , for three years, they lived with their oh; tL, JNr,, peror attempted coup d-etat by
 crossing the Swiss border and reach gary, where Eth prominent monarch
 ists he planned to enter Budapest. 1 The plot failed and Charles returned to Switzerland. Again, on October
 22 last, despite his word of honor" given to the Swiss authorities that [ he would attempt no further esca- pades, the former monarch and his wife, during the dispute over Bur genland, flew in an airplane from Luceren to Oedenburg and ultimate 1 ly reached Raab, Hungary, where Charles was received by an armed
 party of royalists, In sanguinary effort to enter Budapest, the Carlists
 were defeated. The former emperor and empress wer captured and, fin ally, at the behest of the Little En- tente, placed aboard British moni- tor in the Danube. On November g.,
 the ex-royal pair sailed for their future home in the mid-Atlantic. On November the former emperor, who had consistently refused to renounce his hereditary rights" was dethroned and the Hapsburg dynasty was oust- ed from Hungary by law passed by the Hungarian National Assem-
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