Show THE LOST GRAND DUKE HOSE with the pomp and ceremony which hedged in the former court of austria have always maintained that the tragic disappearance of johann salvator Sil vator archduke duke of austria prince of hungary and grand ducal prince of tuscany tuscan cousin of francis joseph and son of leopold II 11 was due as much to ills his radical tendencies and the fact that ho he persisted 1 n airing ills his views in print as to hla his infatuation for ludmilla Ludm tIIa the beautiful daughter of a vienna shopkeeper in furtherance of this opinion on they advance the unassailable evidence that kaiser wilhelm insisted upon the punishment of archduke johann when the latter urged an alliance between russia and austria in order to curb the threatened dominance of germany in european poll ties whatever the cause the young arch dukes reliction reaction to the discipline indicted by bv his royal cousin was to resign all his honors strip himself of 0 his titles convert a large portion of his estate into cash and as the crowning insult to his relatives to elope with ludmilla Ludm llla whom he had met incognito some months before according to all aval available lable reports there was no doubt of Lud millas beauty but a marriage between an archduke of the royal blood and the daughter of a poor shopkeeper was too for the high spirited haps burgs to swallow without a struggle johann So liann however informed all who brought him messages from ills his titled kinsmen that he was no longer of the royal house that he had renounced all hla his claims to the honors which were his by right of birth and that henceforth he be could be nothing more than johann salvator a private citizen of the world when it became known that he really intended carrying through his wild plan even evea force was resorted to in it order to prevent him from contracting what was recognized as a ance hut but he concealed its his identity under the name of john orth the name which he had used in courting lud nilla and the pair were has lly fly married and then escaped to lonion nere here still retaining his adopted name the archduke chartered the bark signed sig ned up a captain and crew and sailed tor for south america where the ship had bad formerly been engaged in the nitrate trade the Marg haritas usual course was between buenos alres aires and valparaiso and after making several successful tripe she finally left the former port on july 13 1890 and vanished as completely as it if tile the sea had opened and swallowed her despite the roost most diligent searches undertaken at the instigation sti of the austrian government nothing definite was ever heard of the ship or the members of the crew though rumors that archduke johann had bad been seen at many times and in man anny y places have been current fr from am that bat day to this the most credible of these reports Is that made by an official investigator rf d the uruguay government ern ment who secured affidavits to the lie effect that the had put in at a lonely place on the coast of that country where the name had been painted out and she had then balled up the uruguay river orth the report stated had bad then paid olt off his crew and with tile the help of two or three of if his intimate companions had bad set sail further inland but here the trall trail was lost never to be during the chilean war archduke johann was reported to he be fighting on tile side of the and some ten years later inter the son of the president of argentina stated that lie he had made the trip from brenos alres to cherbourg Cher bourg with a man who was none other than the former areli archduke duke of austria in addition the lost grand duke lins lias been located in california has been identified as admiral yama rata eata of the japanese navy and was recognized by reputable w witnesses li nesses in several reveral engagements of the world war vl dent itic t je emperor of austren til never placed full credence in th story of its ills oath death for in francis josephs will was a clause to the effect that the archdukes arch dukes estate of some was to be held intact jinell something definite was learned about his title 11 point upon which the memoirs of the former conner 1 kaiser alser ma e eventually ventu ally throw bomp light until this the mystery of the lost grand duke must remain as wie cue of the unsolved riddles of history |