THE GREAT WAR

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 110, 3 February 1930, Page 11

THE GREAT WAR

CRIME WHICH STARTED THE CONFLAGRATION MEMORIAL TO ASSASSIN AFFRONT TO THE WORLD (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Loudon, February 1. A memorial tablet to the nineteen-year-old student, Gabriel Prlnclp, whose murder of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in June, 1914, led up to the World War, will be unveiled at Serajevo to-morrow, at the spot where the Archduke was killed. The Jugo-Slav Government states that as the tablet is being privately erected by Princip’s family and friends, it cannot interfere, but no authorities or associations will be represented at the unveiling, and speeches will not be allowed. Several English newspapers, referring to the ceremony, describe it as one of the most remarkable ceremonies in history, amounting to an affront to the world. The memorial will be placed in the exact spot where Pnnclp stood wh& he fired the fatal shot as the motor-car in which the Archduke and his wife were being driven was backing out of a cul-de-sac. This part of the Serajevo quayside already bears the name of “Princlp,” whose deed Is signalised in another portion of the town by an imposing tomb and tablet on which are the words: “To the patriot who liberated the country from the oppressor.” Tomorrow’s will be the third memorial with Princip’s name and portrait. It was the ''intention of the Black 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, this was abandoned. Great preparations are proceeding for the ceremony, which will be the occasion for widespread festivities.