MEMORIAL SERVICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1934, Page 7

MEMORIAL SERVICE

PRINCE AND PHOTOGRAPHER.

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LONDON, October 18

There was a curious incident at the memorial service for King Alexander in the Russian Church on Buckingham Palace Road. While the dirge for the dead was being sung, a photographer pointed a black barrelled camera at the Prince of Wales, who was the central figure among - the mourners. The church officials, fearing that the camera was a pistol, hurriedly rushed forward, swung the offending photographer round, ■ and hustled him out of the church.

SIR J. SIMON’S SPEECH.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, October 19.

Sir J. Simon, in a speedh at Northampton, made a short reference to the horrible event, which occurred at Marseilles ten days ago, and the attitude of Britain in relation. to the immediate European situation. He said: “The uppermost thought of all of us, when we heard of this dastardly crime, was not of high policy, or even of the risks which in some cases accompany the splendours of Royalty, but of the husband and father so tragically removed, of his sorrowing widow and of the little boy just starting his new term, like other little boys, at an English school, and now suddenly called away to be plunged into the vortex of the complicated affairs of his country. It is as the Roman poet said, ‘These mortal things that touch the heart.’ And at the same moments, by cruel means, France lost an eminent statesman, ripe in years and experience, whose high qualities of energy and resource 1 had learned in the course of personal collaboration at Geneva, greatly to admire. Assassination is not only the wickedest bu,t it is the most stupid of political crimes. How seldom in history, .from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the assassination of Dollfuss, has political assassination accomplished the intended result.”

PROTEST TO HUNGARY.

BUDAPEST, October 19.

It is understood that the Yugoslavian Government has formally made representations to the Hungarian Government respecting' the assassination plot. The former Government states it is shocked by the fact that Croatian-Macedonian terrorist organisations had peen allowed to exist in Hungary so long, and. it asks for details of their recent activities.