The Archive · 1938

Charge Alleged

Berlin, Apr. 20. A warrant for the arrest of the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, has been issued by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice, it is officially steted here.

The charge is one of suspected high treason, as a result of the publication by French journalists on March 29 ai remarks attributed to the Archduke to the effect that France should aid Austria against Germany.

The Archduke Otto is at present living in Belgium. He owns property in Austria worth about £2,000,000.

This is liable to confiscation if he should be convicted of high treason.—Reuter, U.S. Mollified over Hankow, Apr. 20.

The gift of medical supplies and surgical instruments made by the German Red Cros to China and Yangtze, opposite Hankow, may serve the purpose, with beautiful lakes and hills in the vicinity—Reuter.

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