New Britain herald., 1922-04-01

willing again to receive him. The members of the Little Entente, Juga- slova, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, sent an ultimatum to Hungary de- manding his election and on April 6 he re-entered Switzerland. which rc- ceivcd him on the understanding he would engage in no more intrlgucs or propaganda, He was ordered to re- move his residence from near the bor- der 10 the central part of Switzerland and did so. locating near Weggis, The Swiss Increased their guard over him and on October 22 he reached Raab, Hungary having crossed the Swiss frontier in an airponc. He formed "logitmist cabinet at Raab and marched on Budapest with an army of l2,000 men,
 The Hungarian government sent loyal troops against him and he was finally captured with his wife near Komorn and confined in the castle at Tata Tovaros until the Entente Allies determined that he should not again have an opportunity to attempt n coup d'ctat. sent them 10 Madeira.
 Charles still refused to abdicato and the Hungarian government on de- mand of the Allies, passed a bill in the National Assembly dcthroning him and permanently busting the Hapsburg regime. A few days later he and Xta were conveyed by British warship 10 Funchal where they arriv- ed November 19, 1921.
 Emperor Charles of Austria, King of Hungary, was an unpromising ma ior in an Austrian infantry regiment when the shot of the assassin who killed the Archduke Francis Ferdi- nand 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 ruled for centuries the land of Magyar, Slav and Teuton-centuries of blood she'd tyranny and aggression-and sleep their last sleep in the wonderful crypt of the Capauchin Church in Vienna. Emperor Francis Joseph, the aged predecessor of the youthful lldlltS, SttlllS llt ldHu IltlllS ol the wall," had hoped to unite the dis cordant elements among his 50,ooo,- 900 subjects whose recial antagonisms were complicated by the absorption of Austria of the Serbian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908.
 It was the Archduke Francis Ferdi- hands determination to bring about a triune empire made up of Magyar, Slav and German states, it 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 Ger many and sought thus to forestall it.
 Born Aug. 17, 1887
 Charles l was born August IT, 1887, the son of the late Archduke Otto of SaXony. He married the Princess Zita of the Bourbon house of Parma 0tal- was sung for 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 mo- torist. Frequently he was seen in the parks of Vienna wheeling one of his young dukes in a baby perambulator. When he acceded to the throne on December 30, 1916, Austria Hungary, torn by four years of war; saw the first faint glean of possible peace
 The course of the new ruler was regulated largely from Berlin and for the first six months of his reign Aus tria-Hungary was regarded as mere German state. Hindenburg's successes in Galicia in 1916, in which Charles shared as a commander in the field, gave the young monarch prestige which enabled him to hold the Aus trians to the Central Powers until the collapse of Bulgaria and Turkey and the final crash.