4 JULY 1914, Page 10

The sympathy and pity of all Englishmen have turned to

the aged and lonely Emperor as much as to the young children of the Archduke and his wife. As the Emperor himself exclaimed, no sorrow seems to be spared him. His rewards for the patience and good sense with which he has helped his country through numerous political crises are tatter indeed. His brother was the unhappy Maximilian who was executed in Mexico; his only son died mysteriously ; his wife, the Empress Elizabeth, was assassinated; and now his nephew has also fallen to the assassin. The new Heir- Presumptive is his great-nephew, the Archduke Charles Francis Joseph, who was born in 1987, and in 1911 married the Princess Zita of Bourbon Parma. There is one son of the marriage.