East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-01
Ex-ruIer Was in Exile After
Making Two Attempts to
Regain Austrian Throne.
DIED FOLLOWING SHORT
ILLNESS AT FUNcHAL
He Was an Unpromising Major
in an Austrian Infantry
Regiment Before World War

FUNCHAL, Madeira, April la.
P,)-Former Emperor Charles of
Austria Hungary ,exiled by the enten-
te following two attempts to regain
the throne, died today after a short
illness of bronchial pneumonia which
developed cerebral complications.
Emperor isarIes / OF Austria. King
of Hungary as an unpromising ma
jor in an Aus ian infantry regiment
when the shot Il the assassin who
killed the Arch luke Francis Ferdi-
nand on June 81 Ss14, made him the
heir apparent to ssSthronc in the
Hawks Castle" Oh 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--centurie of blood
shed, tyranny and aggression--and
sleep their last sleep In the wonderful
-crs.rt1 1ee- thee caraashiss Shcul'ch in
Vienna. Emperor Frahcis Joseph, the
aged predecessor of the youthful
Charles, seeing ''the handwriting on
the wall,' had hoped to unite the dis
cordant elements among his 50.000,-
900 subjects whose racial antagonisms
were complicated by the absorption by
Austria Of the Serbian provinces of
/. Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908.
1t was the Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand's determination to bring about a
tribune empire made up of Magyar,
Slav and German states, 1t is generally
believed, that led to his assassination
in Sarogevo. Francis Ferdinand fear
ed the dual monarchy might be end
ed upon the death Of. Francis Joseph
by the Intervention of Russia or Ger
many and sought thus to forestall it.
@ Charles was born August II, 1887.
the son Of the late Archduke Otto of
Saxony. He married the Princess Zita
OF the Bourbon house of Parma Qtal-
ian) in 1911 When the Nunc Dimit-
it's was sung for his dead granduncle,
the Emperor Francis Joseph. the only
chievements 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 baby perambulator.
When he acceded to the throne on
December 80, 1915 Austria Hungary,
torn by four years of war, saw the
l first faint CLEAN Of possible peace.
q 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 a mere
German state. Hindenburg's success
es in Galacia in 1916, IN which
Charles shared as a commander in the
field, gave the young monarch a pres
tige which enabled him to hold sth'
Austrians to the Central Powers unit
the collapse of Bulgaria and Turke!
and the final crash.
Numerous peace overtures and ma
neuvers characterized the diplomac.
Of the dual monarchy after Franci
Josephs death. precpitated doubtles
by bread riots and other outbreak
throughout Austria Unable to main
tain his pledge to the German emper
or TO continue the war to the end
Charles made use. of the famour "Dca
Sixtus'' letter. an autographed missiv
written in April. 1918. to Prince sixtu
de Bourbon for transmission to tn
French government in which the mon
arch said Frances claim TO Alsace
Lorraine was Justified
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