JUGOSLAVIAN PEACE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1934, Page 7

JUGOSLAVIAN PEACE

CROATS TO CO-OPERATE THE KING’S BURIAL [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BELGRADE, October 11. King Alexander’s body will be landed to-morrow at Zelenika, where the greater part of the British Mediterranean Fleet will honour his memory with a dipping of flags and a booming of guns, while twelve thousand sailors will stand at attention.

The body will be railed from Zelenika to Belgrade where it will be in State, prior to its interment in the famous Karagoorgovich dynastic mausoleum at Topolo. The fears that the Croats will precipitate an immediate crisis in Yugo Slavia were allayed when the Croatian leaders, at a meeting at Zagreb, decided to co-operate with the Regency. Thus far, there is only talk of a military dictatorship in Yugoslavia. Many good judges regard such a dictatorship as being inevitable.

OUTLOOK FOR PEACE

LONDON, October 11.

The “Daily Mail” says: British Ministerial opinion does not anticipate any direct international complications as the result of the assassination, in as much as, though it has increased the nervousness, it has augmented the caution among the Central European administrations. Everything is believed to depend on the attitude of the Croats in response to King Alexander’s gesture in appointing two of that nationality to the Regency Council. REGENCY INSTALLED. (Received October 12, 11 a.m.) BELGRADE, October 11? Three Regents took the oath of allegiance to King Peter, at an impressive ceremony in the Jugo-Slav Parliament. The Regents were cheered by the dense crowds upon leaving the building.

ANTI-ITALIAN SPEECHES

BELGRADE, October 11.

Anti-Italian riots occurred at Ljubljana, following a protest meeting at which the speakers asserted that. Italy had financed attempts on Alexander’s life. The crowd attacked the Italian Consul, but the police intervened.

BELGRADE, October 11.

Reports of anti-Italian rioting in Yugo-Slavia are officially and categorically denied*.

KING CAROL PERTURBED

BUCHAREST, October 10.

The assassination of King Alexander has prostrated King Carol of Roumania. King Carol spent, most of the day with the Crown Prince Michael, who is almost of the same age as King Peter the Second, of Yugo-Slavia. The Government of Roumania, in view of the current unrest does not desire King Carol to’ visit .Yugoslavia to attend the funeral.

ASSASSIN’S MOVEMENTS.

PARIS. October 11.

Kalemen, the assassin, entered France on September 28 with a false passport, and since then he frequently, changed his name and address. He took a room at a small hotel here in Paris about October 3, under the name of Suk. One of his friends was already staying at this hotel. Another visited him. These probably supplied him with money, because the day after his arrival Suk visited a store and bought himself a new suit and an overcoat. The scene then changes to the Hotel Aix-en-Provence, where a man arrived on October 7. He was joined

that night by two others, one of whom was Kalemen. All three described

themselves as brothers, avoiding the signing of the registration book. Kalemen and his friend breakfasted

in their room on the morning of October 9. They drank a considerable quantity of alcohol, after which Kalemen departed for Marseilles. His companion returned to the hotel and paid the bill, after which the remaining two men departed, and they have not been seen since. Kalemen left well armed, and newly clothed, with about £25 in his pocket.

SUSPECTS ARRESTED.

(Recd. October 12, S a.m.) LONDON, October 12. Two men arrested at Annemasse Haute Savoie are believed to be Kelemen’s accomplices. The police visited a small villa at Fontainbleau, to search for another suspect. As they arrived, a. man rushed out, firing a revolver. He fled to the forest, which the police are now scouring. FILMS SCREENED IN LONDON (Recd. Oct. 12, 11 a.m.). LONDON, October 11. The Marseilles police have impounded the films of the procession snowing the assassination, and have prevented the transmission of such films to America. Scotland Yard saw uncut films of the assassination with the object of spotting international criminals. The Censor deleted the lynching of the assassin and the close-ups of the dying King as too gruesome for public exhibition.

Despite the vigilance of the authorities, who instructed Imperial Airways pilots to see that no films of the assassination were flown to England, one film corporation succeeded in smuggling news reels of the shooting to London, where 'they were widely screened. BERLIN, October 11. Dr. Goebbels has banned the assassination films 1 in Germany, for •reasons of humanity and international tact. PARIS, October 11. • One cinema eluded the prohibition .and showed the entire film. MACHINE GUN WEAPON. (Recd. October 12, 1 p.m.) PARIS, October 11. Madame Yolande Farris, the fifth victim of the assassination, died at the hospital after embracing her nine months’ old baby. I At Marseilles, M. Saint Paul, the in-

vestigating Magistrate, reports that King Alexander lived 45 minutes after he was shot. Major Houvaix, a i Colonial Army doctor, responding to f the call from the Prefecture was the first to attend him. He found that one bullet entered the right, side and ploughed upwards to the chest. The other perforated the liver. The heart’s action was imperceptible. An adrenalin injection was futile. The assassin’s weapon, though technically an automatic pistol, was really a machine gun capable of 280 shots a minute. Kalemen used a belt of ten cartridges, firing one by one in order to take aim. A similar weapon, was found at his feet.

GENERAL GEORGES.

MARSEILLES, October 10.

The coritlition of General Georges, of the French General Staff, who was among those shot at Marseilles, is improving. The bullet has not yet been extracted. A second woman has succumbed to a bullet wound. FRENCH POLICE. LONDON, October 11. . According to the “News-Chron-icle’s” Paris correspondent drastic measures against, certain high police officials are expected to-day for alleged laxity in protecting King Alexander. “We know the police department is gangrenous," says “La Liberte." “It is also incapable.” MINISTER RESIGNS. (Recd. October 12, 1 p.m.) PARIS, October 11. Following the severe criticism of administration in connection with ineffectual precautions before (the assassination, M. Sarraut has resigned as Minister of the Interior. M. Berthoin, Director of the Surete National, and Jouhannaux, Prefect of the Department of Bouches du Rhone, whose wife closed the dying King's eyes, have been suspended.

M. BARTHOU’S LYING-IN-STATE

(Recd. October 12, 1 p.m.) PARIS, October 11.

M. Barthou lies in state at the Quai D’Orsay, whence he so long directed France’s foreign policy. The coflin draped with the tri-colour, lies on the catafalque, in crepe-shrouded rooms with gilded decorations and baroque furniture. Wreaths lie at his feet from the widowe.d Queen, President Lebrun, and.’ French Foreign Office, while an • enormous circle of crepewreathed laurel hangs on the wall. The official’ mourners, including his brother, Leon Barthou, after spending a few moments in meditation, with? drew to permit the admission of an endless procession of the public of all classes from be-medalled officers and black-robed priests to sobbing women. A dreary drizzle falls without. RUGBY, October 11.

Sir J. Simon will represent His Majesty’s Government at the funeral of M. Barthou on October 13.

ROYALTIES TN PARIS

(Received October 12, 10 a.m.)

PARIS, October 11.

Queen Marie of Yugo-Slavia and President Lebrun arrived at Gare De Lyon. Elaborate precautions were taken, only a few diplomats, Ministers and officials being allowed on the platform.

The Queen of Roumania and Princess Ileana greeted her, the Queens weeping unrestrainedly in each other’s arms. They then entered the car, and drove to the Yugo-Slav Legation, where the boy King was waiting. Queen Marie told Peter the details of his father’s death. Peter had been previously told it was a motor car accident. Later, Princess Marina visited Peter.

QUEEN MARIE’S HEALTH.

PARIS, October 11

When they were reunited at the strongly-guarded Yugo-Slav. Legation, the boy King learned from his stricken mother’s lips the details of his father’s assassination, the impli'cations of which he cannot even yet fully realise. Queen Marie, after a loving embrace, controlled her emotion, though she was on the verge of a breakdown, and told the story plainly and simply, in the presence of Anton and Ileana, after which Princess Marina and Prince Nicholas visited them. Anxiety prevails regarding the health of Queen Marie, who is expected To bear a child early in the New Year. Queen Marie and Peter left for Belgrade at 9.15 p.m. ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE RUGBY, October 10. On the stock markets, foreign exchanges soon recovered from the unsettlement caused by the assassinations. French bonds 4 per cent, and 41 per cent, were each J lower, German bonds were weak, and Young bonds were 34. In other departments, business was restrained.