JUGO-SLAVIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 5 July 1921, Page 5

JUGO-SLAVIA

MURDER OF PRINCE.

THREAT OF WAR

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT VIENNA, July 3. The attempted murder of the Prince Regent Alexander of Jugo-Slavia on June 26 threatens to lead to results eimK^ to-the events of 1914. The v Belgrade corespondent of the Neve Freie Presse states that three Parliamentarians have been arrested on the would-be assassin's evidence, and the' latter testified that they ordered him to murder the Prince under instructions from a Bolshevist organisa*' tion in Vienna. The Ju go-Slav Cabinet is sending an ultimatum to Austria demanding action agaist the Bolshevist and Communist circles in Austria, and the expulsion of , foreign Communists. i The situation is regarded as potential of war against Austria by Jugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania- j

On the seventh anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand ,at Serajevo—the deed which plunged the world into war —a Bomb was thrown at the carriage occupied by the Prince Regent as Be left the National Assembly, after taking his oath to the new Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The bomb fell among the crowd,1 one being killed and six seriously injured. The Prince and the Prime Minister were not hurt.