PRINCIP MEMORIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 96, 3 February 1930, Page 5

PRINCIP MEMORIAL.

AFFRONT TO THE WORLD.

THIRD ERECTED AT SERAJEVO. > (United Presi. Association— Copyright.) LONDON, February 1. Several newspapers, referring to the fact that a memorial tablet to the student Gabriel Princip, the 19-year-old student, whose murder of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinant in June, 1914, led up to the world war, will be unveiled at Serajevo on Sunday on the spot where the Archduke was killed, describe it as one ot the most remarkable ceremonies in history, amounting to an affront to theuoilcl. The memorial will be placed m the exact spot where Princip stood when he fired the fatal shot, as the motorcar in which the Archduke and Ins wife were being driven was backing out of a cul de sac. This part ot the ciuavsido at Serajevo already bears the name “Princip,” whose deed lias been signalised by the erection of an imposing tomb, and by a tablet in another portion of the town, on which are the words: “To a patriot who lih'crated his country from the oppressor ” The new tablet will be the llnrd memorial bearing bis name and poi trait. . It was the intention of the iiiacti Hand” to erect a magnificent monument, pretentious and belligerent, but owing to the intervention of King Alexander, who possibly guessed the effect of such a display abroad, tins was abandoned. Great preparations are proceeding for the ceremony, winch will he the occasion for widespread festivities.