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Show FERDINAND 111 OF HUN CONSPIRACY SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES ARE MADE IN THE SECRET CORRESPONDENCE CORRE-SPONDENCE OF C2ERNIN. Regarded as Too Dangerous a Rival to the Kaiser, Germans Engineered Plot Which Resulted in Assassination Assassin-ation of Austrian Crown Heir. New York. George Creel, former chairman of the committee on public information, made public here Thursday Thurs-day night a summary of the secret correspondence cor-respondence of Count Czernin, late foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, which was turned over to Edgar Sis-son Sis-son at Prague by the custodian official of-ficial of the Bohemian government on January 24 last. One of the most sensational sen-sational of the disclosures was that there was a German-Magyar conspiracy conspir-acy against the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the throne of Austria, who was assassinated at Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, because he was considered a rival of the then Emperor William. Mr. Creel, said Mr. Sisson, accepted the privilege of using the correspondence correspond-ence in behalf of the United States government. Translators and a photographer pho-tographer in the service of the committee com-mittee on public information were set at work to translate the documents for general publication in this country as the final public contribution of the committee, according, to Creel. From the documents and letters it will be shown that Francis Ferdinand was working on building up a strong Austria which would eventually, emancipate eman-cipate itself from the influence of Berlin. This was blocking Berlin's plan, for expansion toward the east and the Berlin government eome to an understanding with the Budapest government to offset the plans of Francis Ferdinand. Although no positive . proof was found from the documents on hand as to the conspiracy to kill Archduke Francis Ferdinand, it is sufficiently evident that there was no conspiracy in Serbia for that purpose. The archduke arch-duke was rather a friend of Serbia in hatred of the Magyars, as he knew of the conspiracy between the Berlin and the Budapest governments. |
