Show DISTURBED BY fALSE RUMORS Foreign Of Office Office Office fice Makes Statement Re Regarding Regarding Regarding garding Succession Vienna Sept 25 The foreign office ottlee has been repeatedly In formed by its ita embassy at Wa Washington of false rumors in the United States con concerning concerning coming the order of ot succession lon to the throne of and has hall is 18 issued issued sued this statement It is not true that the Hungarian par has altered the order of succession sion III on in favor of the children of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who himself jure sue suc and not having the renunciation tion of the archdukes archduke father Is successor successor successor sor for Austria as well as Hungary The only rules of ot the imperial house bonse are de decisive decisive delve particularly with regard to prag pragmatic matic sanction which continues with undiminished un undiminished diminished force In consequence ce of these laws the children by the marriage of Franz Ferdinand have no right of suc sue succession succession cession whatever Archduke Franz Ferdinand Fer Ferdinand Ferdinand dinand himself renounced the rights ts of his children and both parliaments Aus Austrian Austrian Austrian trian and Hungarian consented The rumor that Archduke Franz Fer lIer Ferdinand Ferdinand dinand Intends to request the pope to grant a dispensation of his solemn oath of renunciation is absolutely unfounded The right of succession Is as u clear as a can be After the present sovereign comes Archduke Franz Ferdinand After him the tho eldest son of his late brother Arch Archduke Archduke Archduke duke Karl Franz Josef is successor to the throne |