Show EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH IS CALLED RULER WHOSE declaration OF WAR ON SERBIA PLUNGED FOURTEEN NATIONS IN WAR ascended the he throne e of au austria 1 at I the age of ni nineteen tee n upon abd abdich tion lona of his uncle and rd had be sixty eight years lenna emperor emprow francis in joseph eab Is dead the sold aped I 1 emperor who be had bad reigned lagard I 1 near y sixt eight laari was wai 86 years cars of age and his death had bad blim expected for I 1 acme tile time billip emperor rot I 1 arancia a joseph P passed sit say away T tuesday do morning or ia at t 9 a 0 clock while the croad ta in front fam t of Sch schoenbrunn brim lallie castle were talking of tile the triumphant entry of trianon teutonic troops into cao craiovan chal francis who succeeds succeed to 0 the ahtone he has been in tor far some borne time 0 one 1 1 th thine 1 g 11 caa upon everyone a lips the though it f few spoke P ke it porch probably bly the greatest b blessing I ara to lo his bia empire was the tact a t that this blanch I 1 b old man monarch arch clung as aa as he did to th the a thin 11 11 thread that it still lih linked him won with ba life in a world ald h in which jr it he had it been long 01 49 groan like the death of pope plus pius X the end of the venerable jerab a I 1 emperor por fran it acta joseph to la charged largely ago against i t the great war the one a man a was a help helpless spectator ahm shocked ked at the horror of such euch sudden and rd wide d clash of are arms the other the man whose hose action in u avenging ging the A as A antion ot of his heir I 1 engulfed to tour or tee teen ration 1 in combat with francis joseph a death in the midst of this great conflict there 1 la rem remarkable climax to a 1 long US list if it camax tragedies fadjus 1 in the hapsburg 1 upa lurg family a list u unparalleled a P helid in any other reign jag ing house 1 in europe Itic including luding ill the ass as si nation or violent death ot of seven even near car rel nea I 1 the fortitude ode with which I 1 the a em perot bore each blow and 1 in later Y years r willi withstood strod the inroads of 0 ill health ill illif himself if was the wonder of the P people e feam that the shock of the assassination often of his heir the are arc duke francis ferdinand and ad his hii con cm sort art while on a state visit to 13 besnia bosnia a on june 28 1914 would woud kill hill the em am perot we were anaw sered in ite tic manner driller francis joseph then nearing his eighty tour four birthday rec recuperated operated at ischi from a catarrhal affliction n which sell each spring hid had wore heavily upon rey him mustered stated strength to return turn to a vienna immediately and tak take a a fl firm in grip a on the confused state stain of affairs ban with the royal funeral rites ob all served and the new heir the young archduke Aich Alch duke cart carl francis joseph lecog tied the venerable sea table emperor and it b his 1 advisers sem turned to serbia with tie de mands its which startled all europe from the ultimatum ultimate of july 23 denouncing pages noun cing the antl austrian pro pagan do da and items demanding ding prompt punishment az Z of I 1 the assassins a of all archduke duke ferdl nand bond according to terris items supposedly up pe dictated by francis joseph himself hima elt practically dates the war now aravag ing europe it 11 to is doubtful if 11 in a all history ill there haa is ile been all ma an acene it authenticated reign longer than that closed by the death of brou frou francis joseph at 19 yen years of age he ascended ended the throne of austria upon abdication of fit his uncle ferdinand I 1 december 2 ills his death ending it an active t j reign of sixty eight ears all 11 but bt t the h b first twenty of 0 which halh he was also apostolic king of 0 hungary |