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Show FIRST KMC OF RUMANIA DIES IN WALLACHIA Career of Member of House of Hohenzollern Who Sailed With Emperor William Is Closed NEPHEW SUCCEEDS TO VACANT THRONE Last Days Embittered by Inability to Force His Country to Fight on Side of Germany LONDON Oct 10 io D m Ac cord off to a & spatch from Bucharest to the Renter Telegram company the death of Kmc Charles occurred at 6 30 o clock th s morn ng at his country seat at Smaia n Wallach a King Charles of Human a was a mem rjer of th house of Hohenzollern. At the beginn ng of the war he -was in elined to s de with Germany and Ans tr a Hungary and "was reported as ready to cast his lot with these eountnea but such a course encountered strong op-posit op-posit on in Rumania and part cnlarly in the legislature. Eeeent dispatches have said that the king because of a prom iso he had made to Germany desired to mobilize the Rumanian army to as s st Germany in the war Cabinet Against Him It has been said on many occas ons in the last few weeks that Germany counted on the intervention of Rumania A story published in Paris the latter part of September related that when King Charles asked the cabinet to or der a mobilization of Jhe army one of the ministers replied We are quite willing if it is against Austria Xing Charles turned to him and said ' I gave my word to Emperor William and a Hohenzollern keeps his word.' The president of the council here m terposed saying The eountry knows no Hohenzollern. It knows onlv the king of Rumania who does not have to give his word to anyone whomsoever King Charles then decided to call a council of the erown w th the ex min ister in attendance but only one sided with him in favor of Germany It is then reported that the king tried to persuade- General Averesco to attempt a eoup d etat and arrest the minister but General Averesco refused saving bir you would be the first victim of such an atempt Biographical Sketch Charles I was Pumanla 3 first king The stcry of his career spanning seent five years. Is that of a German prince e ected to govern a Lat n people out ot, which experience Rumanians or those who have followed the fortunes of that PRINCE FERDINAND of Rumania who succeeds to the throne by reason of the death of his uncle King Charles I " ll buffe state wl e a much that is stirring f not roman c Pr nee Charles wa born a Hohenzol era an older branch of the fam y than that of Emperor W liam of Gern an but none the less proud of Its b ood He was the son of Pr n e Charles An ony of Hohenzo ern S grnarlngren who volun tari res gned the Hohenzo ern rege t h p in favor of the Pruss an crown and subsequently became pr me minister of Prussia. It was while Charles was serving at the as of 27 year as an officer of high rank in the Pruss an guard that the Turk sh pro mces of "Wallachla and Mol dav a united to call themselves Rumania and casting their eyes about Europe for a forelTi prince to govern them since no native prince had been successful took the advice of Napoleon III and in vlted joung Charles to be their prince Arrived m Disguise W th Austria at that t me preparing to fight Prussia, young Charles s depar ture for Ruman a was such a perilous undertaking that he made it secretly He d sguised himself as a Russian merchant bound for Odessa, and sailed down the Danube Jumping ashore on Ruman an territory on May 20 1S66 and made his way to the palace at Bucharest, where he was proclaimed prince three dajs later ISapo eon III had told him that nothing was more difficult than to gov ern a Latin race. The young prince soon found that he had been well ad vised in this respect. He was homesick, and beset with innumerable difficulties, growing out of the fact that the country was struggling with a new constitution that gave the people an unaccustomed liberty and that he made no secret of his purpoe to plant among them the civlll zatlon of Germany though he sincerely desired to become the best Rumanian of them all His great confidence In the virtue of Hohenzollern blood brought him energy and patience which ater won the hearts of his people ...,. In the meantime at the age of 30 the oung prince paid court to Princess Eliz abeth of Wled with whom be fell in love at first sight when he met her in Cologne and the marriage was celebrated on the banks of the Rhine in the fall of 1869 The queen has since become be loved among her people for her devotion to good works and famous throughout the world as a poet with the pseudonym of Carmen Sylva Heir Died at Age of Six A boy was born to the couple but he d ed at the age of and they had no further children In 1876 when there arose the quest on of participating In the Turko Russian war Prince Charles stood firm for neutrality but when the Rus sians were on the point of being crushed at Plevna and Grand Duke Nicholas cent h s famous call for help the Rumanian forces were led to battle and. with Charles at their head decisively defeat ed the great Turkish army The renown of Prince Charles spread and four years later out of a cannon he nad captured a Plevna the Ru man an peop e ga e him an ron crown With the consent of ths powers they placed It on bis tiead In 18J1. From this time on King Charles was nnlver sally acknowledged the leader of his adopted people, and the kingdom of Ru mania became a factor in international politics. She held aloof from the com mon Balkan war against the Turks, but was stirred in her own behalf by Bui gartan greed for territory and after the King Charles pressed his country s claim for 2600 m lea of territory as com pensatlon for the neutrality Rumania had preserved and started an Invasion of Bulgaria. The Bulgars soon sued for peace and handed over the coveted strip extending about 100 miles Inland Made No Alliances By ourselves alone ar the words wihlch ornament the Iron crown King Chares has worn. He was never a party to International alliance although groups represented In both th triple alliance and th triple entente hav teen sa d to b courting Rumanian support The bill of particulars as to th coun try when Prince Charles entered Ru mania was dls ouragrlng in every dta 1 That which he hands over to his sue essor whon he adopted ln the person of h s nephew Prlnc Ferdinand is one wh ch n udes an efflcter t army of nearly half a million when on war foot ng agriculture developed along modem I ea oil production on a vast scalo railways spread widely foreign commerce developed to a degree which exceeds that of all the other Balkan states put to gather and a national credit that needs no special guarantees. The on blot on th escutcheon recent y has been an al eged widespread prs cutlon of th Jews of whom there ar some 700 000 scattered among the 7 000 000 Inhabitants of th country May Take Part In War ROME Oct 10. via London U 1J p m Ths death of King Charles of Rumania has caused a great Impression here A though he was vry old and not well no p ev ous news had given the Impresslo that his condition was strlous In lomo quarters there is a belief that s death may hasten the participation of Ruman n the war wh oh has been u gp 1 bv a srge par of the Rumanian peop e |
