HUNGARY: Major Otto

Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz—put them all together they make Archduke Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary—last week attained his 18th birthday and his legal majority.

The day which thousands of Hungarian Legitimists have been awaiting for eight years dawned quietly and set peaceably. Despite last-minute rumors of a projected dash through Switzerland and Austria to seize the throne of Hungary, of imminent riot and turmoil, somebody had evidently decreed that last week was not time for a putsch.

Chief excitement was in the little...

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