MURDER OF KING ALEXANDER

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21296, 16 October 1934, Page 11

MURDER OF KING ALEXANDER

KALEMEN'S CRIMINAL RECORD

POLICE ALLEGATIONS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BV ELECTJRIC TELEGRAPH—COPVRIGBT.)

(Received October 15, 5.5 p.m.)

BELGRADE, October 14.

Two Jugoslav Macedonians have identified Kalemen, King Alexander's assassin, as Vlacha Georgiev, born at Kaminitze, Macedonia, in 1894, a Bulgarian subject and a former member of a Macedonian revolutionary organisation. The police have ascertained that Georgiev killed the Agrarian leader. Hadji Imov, in 1921; was punished for taking part in a terrorist attempt in 1924; killed the Comitadji leader. Tomalevski, in 1930; escaped with Vantche Mihailoff, leader of the Macedonian revolutionary organisation in 1931, and became his chauffeur; left Bulgaria for Budapest, where he was a liaison officer between the Macedonians and Croat emigre terrorists at the Janka Puszta camp.

A Paris message states thai the organiser of the assassination is believed to be a law student named Eugen Kvaternik, who was born in Belgrade in 1910.

KING'S BODY REACHES SPALATO ITNEKAL ON -THURSDAY BELGRADE, October 14. King Alexander's body arrived at Spalato and was saluted by 101 guns. The body was carried through the streets and then put on a train for Zagreb. The train will proceed slowly to Zagreb, stopping at the bigger stations and remaining at Zagreb overnight. Early to-morrow morning the journey to Belgrade will be continued. The body will lie in state at the palace on Tuesday and Wednesday. The funeral will take place on Thursday. Units of the British Mediterranean Fleet, which were spread out among Jugoslav ports, where they were paying courtesy visits when the Marseilles outrage occurred, assembled off Spalato to meet the Jugoslav warship Dubrovnik.

| GOVERNMENT VOWS LOYALTY TO KING | TRADITIONAL ORIENTAL (iIFT j BELGRADE, October 14. I The Mayor to-day offered King | Peter II the traditional oriental gift jof bread and salt. The Prime Minisi tor was visibly moved by the young ; King's dignified bearing when he | pronounced the official welcome: ; "The Government and people greet | your Majesty and express their unbounded and unshakeable devotion. We swear we will firmly stand behind your Majesty, our well-beloved King, the hope of Jugoslavia in fulfilling the will of your immortal father, the unifier of Jugoslavia. - ' At Dedidje Palace, King Peter returned not to the playroom, with its cupboards filled with toys, but to the Slate apartments, which, until now, he had rarely visited. In spite of a law that the sovereign must live in Jugoslavia it is hoped that King Peter will soon return to school in Surrey, as it is feared that Die constant atmosphere of official eeremony will interfere with his upbringing.

CONDOLENCES ON DEATH OF !\L BARTHOU

SIR JOHN SIMON IN I'ARIS •.mtnisH orrn:iAi. witr.i.iss ) RUGBY, October 13. The King was represented at the funeral of M. Louis Barthou by the British Ambassador in Paris (Sir George Clerk). Sir John Simon, Foreign Minister, who arrived in Paris by air to attend the funeral, called on the French Premier (M. Doumergue) to offer his personal condolences on the death of M. Barfhou.

■ ALLEGED ACCOMPLICES CHARGED MARSEILLES, October 14. Ladislos Benes. alias Ivan Riacli, actually Ivan Rapitch, was charged with complicity in the assassination of King Alexander. Jaroslav Novak, alias Pospisel, actually Pospichal, was similarly charged.

HUNGARIAN DENIAL OF CHARGES BUDAPEST, October 14. The whole Hungarian press indigj nantly denies that the regicides, were I trained in Hungary- One newspaper admits that several Croatian exiles are refugees in Hungary, but it says there are many more elsewhere. notably in Paris, where a welli known refugee recently published |an attack on King Alexander.