Assassins Mourned

Fifteen years ago last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week all Jugoslavia celebrated the anniversary.

Gravrilo Princip and Nadelko Cabrinovite were the students who killed the Archduke & his Duchess. Their bodies, with those of 26 of their fellow conspirators, lie in a great stone vault, unmarked out of regard for Austrian feeling. Here solemn hero services were held last week.

At the same time, while a requiem mass was being sung in St. Stefan's at Vienna, Monarchists mourned the dead Archduke near the bridge over the Miljacka.