League of Nations
The Austro-Hungarian Heir-Presumptive, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated yesterday morning at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia. The actual assassin is described as a high school student, who fired bullets at his victims with fatal effect from an automatic pistol as they were returning from a reception at the Town Hall.The outrage was evidently the fruit of a carefully-laid plot. On their way to the Town Hall the Archduke and his Consort had narrowly escaped death. An individual, described as a compositor from Trebinje, a garrison town in the extreme south of Herzegovina, had thrown a bomb at their motor-car. Few details of this first outrage have been received. It is stated that Archduke warded off the bomb with his arm, and that it exploded behind the car, injuring the occupants of the second carriage. The author of the second outrage is stated to be a native of
Thereupon the assassin fired three shots from a pistol. No information as to his race or creed is yet forthcoming. the Imperial train conveying the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his Consort arrived here from Ilidzhe. He had an enthusiastic send-off from his subjects in Vienna and an even more enthusiastic reception on reaching Ischl. The first shot hit the Archduke in the neck, the second hit him in the leg, and the third hit the Duchess of Hohenberg in the lower part of the body. Both criminals were immediately arrested, and were with difficulty saved from being lynched. It is presumed that he belongs to the Serb or Orthodox section of the Bosnian population. The perpetrator was seized by the crowd and severely mauled. The Archduke and the Duchess of Hohenberg were rapidly conveyed to General Potiorek's official residence. General Potiorek, chief of the Administration, who was sitting in the Archduke's motor-car, escaped injury. "When the procession drove back from the Town Hall the second attempt was made.
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