ALWAYS A WOMAN IN IT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 610, 21 May 1891, Page 2

ALWAYS A WOMAN IN IT.

PERSECUTION OF EX-QUEEN NATALIE. The expulsion of ex-Queen Natalie from Servia was the cause of serious rioting on the part of her many sympathisers. Some time ago an agreement was drawn up by which it was hoped to settle the difficulty with the divorced Queen. Neither the deposed King Milan nor Queen Natalie were to set foot in Servia during the boy King’s minority. The young King was to spend each year a month with his father and also a month with his mother. Queen Natalie, however, was not satisfied with being thus treated in regard to her son, and she refused to sign the deed. In reply to the threats of expulsion she claimed that she was within her legal rights. At last steps were taken to fulfil the decree, and a body of gendarmes was employed to arrest the Queen and convey her over the frontier. A great number of leading men were in her favor, and much free fighting ensued. Many people were badly injured, and there was a little loss of life.

When the Queen was first seized she was thrust into a carriage and escorted by gendarmes, but the news of the seizure soon spread abroad, and the indignant people rescued her and for a time succeeded in frustrating the attempts to arrest her. For a time it looked as if dreadful bloodshed would ensue.