6000 ARRESTS

Grey River Argus, 19 October 1934, Page 5

6000 ARRESTS

KING ALEXANDER’S FUNERAL. EXTREME PRECAUTIONS. BELGRADE, October 17. The police have taken unexampled precautions to protect celebrities walking in the funeral procession, including two Kings, four Princes. President Lebrun. Mar. hat Petain and General Goering, along two miles of streets guarded by soldiers shoulder to shoulder. Only boys and gir s will be permitted to stand on the right hand side of the road, so the troops there can devote themselves to watch the other side, where the general public will be behind the soldiers. Al windows en roui‘e will be e.’osed. No fl wers will be permitted tn be thrown and nobody may carr v anything, even an umbrella. All side streets are to Im* vacated and everylmdy in place by seven o’clock •n the morning, nobody leaving until the Coffin and mourners are entrained cn route for Topela. The population has ,‘robled in the past three days- and thousands of police spies are mingling with the people RUGBY. October 17. The Prince of Wales will to-morrow, represent the King at the official memorial service for King Alexander, to be held in London. Sir John Simon and several other Ministers, as well as the Diplomatic Corps, are among those who will attend. (Received October IS at. 11 p.m.) BELGRADE. October 18. The police have made six thousand preca u t ion ary a r rests. The gaols are overcrowded. Many of those arrested are locked in cellars. LONDON. October 17.

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Belgrade ‘■o: respondent states: lurerest centres n the personality of Prince Paul, whom King Alexander obviously intended to govern the country. His fellow-Regents were expected to be prineipallv concerned with Alexander’s family affairs and private fortune. which is reliably e timated at between £500.000 and £lOOO.OOO.

A French financial group backing Yugoslavia’s enterprises. privately conveyed to Parliament, after conferences. their confidence that the investments were safe under the new Regency. They believed th:» 4 Paul may prove firm, but more conciliatory than A’exander. who was embarrassed bv persons who acquired claims against him during the Balkan and World Wars. The clique became a burden o»* the State. Alexander intended to rid himself of this a»'d had prepared a list of a new Cabinet of National Concentration. The new officials were intended to make the change on his return from France. A cablegram was despatched on the day of his death: “Way clear fop your changes.” The cablegram never reached him. The list has now come into the possession of Paul, who is summoning Parliament next week. It is believed he will then unfold plans for a Government of National Concentration, coup!**d with a general amnesty.