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Show I . CTOUNT STEPHEN TISZA, fpr-1 J met Hungarian premier, who !j ; has been assassinated by a soldier at II Budapest. I li MS . PREMJERKILLEO Count Tisza Shot by Soldier Sol-dier While Taking Walk in Budapest. COPENHAGEN, Nov. L Count Tisza, the former Hungarian premier, has been killed by a soldier, according to a Budapest Buda-pest telegram today. The count fell victim vic-tim to a revolver shot while he was out walking. Count Tisza, whose life is reported ended end-ed by assassination, has long bfcen one of the storm centers of Hungarian politics. It has been charged that Count Tisza was one of the four men responsible for the war, and the accusation has been made that he instigated the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. A Magyar and Hungarian to the core, Count Tisza was pro-German and aimed constantly at the supremacy, of Hungary over Austria within i the dual monarchy. He was born in 1SC1, the youngest son of Kalman Tisza, a leading Hungarian statesman, who gave Hungary a consolidated' consoli-dated' government. Count Tisaa was twice premier of Hungary, Hun-gary, from 1903 to 1905 and from June (j, 1913. to May 2, 1917. He was the center of many riotous scenes in the Hungarian parliament during his leadership and In 1913 fought at least three duels with political po-litical Opponents. In January of that year lie wounded Count Michael Karolyi, a lifelong and bitter opponent, in a due! at Budapest. Up to his retirement from the premiership he was opposed to the pacifists pa-cifists In Hungary. Within the last year, however, he has urged peace, and in a speech October 19, declared lie no longer had hopes for an Austro-Oerman victory. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Count Tisza in Budapest October 17. His assailant at that time was arrested. BASEL. Nov. 1. Count Tisza was promenading with his family when he was shot, a Budapest dispatch received here by way of Berlin announced. A woman member of the group was wounded, wound-ed, ft was added. |