Assassinated!

Mataura Ensign, 19 March 1913, Page 5

Assassinated!

■THE KING OF GREECE. < __ < ANNOUNCEMENT FROM SALONIKA ; SENSATION IN LONDON. < ! < By Telegraph; Extraordinary. : Copyright. 1 '•KB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. < Received March 19, 9 a.m. LONDON, March 19. « • King George of Greece has been as- > SaSS ßecefved March 19, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, March 18. I Renter's Salonika correspondent has - announced the assassination of the King of Greece. ... * . _ Xo official confirmation has reached 1 Marlborough House or the Legation. ' The news has caused a sensation in. 1 the city. * SHOT WHILE WALKINC. f MURDERER ARRESTED. i ReceiveS March 19, 2 p.m. LONDON. March 19. i King George was walking when the 1 assassin attacked him. « The assassin's pistol was loaded with seven shots. 1 The murderer has been attested. __ j THE NEW KINC. I ■~i Received March 19, 2 p.m. i «• LONDON, March 18. The Army officers have Bworn fealty to Prince Constantino (who has taken an active part in the war against Turkey). AT CLOSE QUARTERS. QUEEN ALEXANDRA PROSTRATED Received March I§. 1.40 p.m. LONDON. March 18. It is officially stated that King George while at Windsor received information that King George of Greece was shot at closequarters in. the afternoon by an assassin who was two yards ' away. King George was greatly shocked. Queen Alexandra was prostrated on bearing of her brother being fatally i shot. I, The Lord Mayor (Alderman Sir David j Burnett) condoled with their Majesties. ATTACKED FROM BEHIND. DIED IN HALF AN HOUR. u Received March 19, 1.40 p.m. ATHENS, March IS. The Administrator at Salonika reports that two individuals, one : of whom i was named Aleaxnder Sokinas, who was 1 demented, attacked the King in the j street from behind. I King Nicholas, of reports that the King died in half an hour. SYMPATHY FOR QUEEN-MOTHER. Received March 19, 1.10 p.m. LONDON, March 18. Lord Selborne, speaking at the Col- ! onial Institute, said it was unnecessary tojexpress what was paramount in their jj»jcjds. The deepest sympathy would be extended to Queen Alexandra in her loss. King George I. (Christian William Ferdinand Adolphus George) was a brother of the Dowager Empress of Russia and Queen Alexandra. He was born, in 1845 and chosen King of Greece in ;■ 1863 in succession to Otho I. King George married in 1867* Princess Olga, daughter of the Russian Grand Duke Constantino, and had five sons and one daughter. An attempt to assassinate him was made in 1898, but happily failed. The eldest son and heir-apparent is Prince Constantino, DuEe ofSparta, born August 2, 1868, who married Princess Sophia of Prussia, sister to the Emperor William n., in 1889. The second son. Prince George, horn in • 1S(?9, was High Commissioner in Crete from 1898 to 1906, and married Princess Marie, only child of Prince Roland Bonaparte, on November 21, 1907. Another son, Prince Andrew, 'married Princess Alice, eldest daughter of Prince Louis of Battenburg, in 1903. The late King was of the Lutheran faith, hut hy the Constitution his heirs and successors must he members of the Greek Orthodox Church. The late King's income was about £52,000, and included grants of £4OOO each from the Governments of Great Britain, France and Russia. A BLACK RECORD. Assassinations and attempted assassinations of rulers and statemen have been plentiful during the past 30 years. This period embraces an attempt upon the life of Queen Victoria and the murders of a Cisar of Russia, an Empress of one French and two American Presidents, two Spanish Premiers, a. King of Italy and a Russian Premier. 4 The period begins with the assassination of Alexander 11. of Russia and •president Garfield of America within a -TCw months of each other in 1881. No fewer than five attempts had been made on the life of the Czar, and there were two attempts to kill his successor. The year 1882 was particularly terrible. It was then that the fifth attempt was made on the life of the (jueen. This attempt was by Maclean at Windsor on March 2. The same year will be remembered as tho timo of,the Phoenix Park murders, when Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke fell at the hands of "Invincibles." About the same time King Milan of "Servia narrowly escaped. In 1888 an attempt was maae on the lives of the Ameer of Afghanistan and Pedro 11. .of Brazil. The nineties were marked by some horrible crimes. The Premier of Italy, Signer Crispi, was fired at in Rome on Jurks 16, 1894, hut tie bullet happily missed its mark. Eight days later Europe was horrified at the announcement that President Carnot had fallen a victim to the assassin's dagger at Lyons, his murderer being an Italian earned Caserio Santo. A year later M. Stambouloff,-an ex-Premier of Bulgaria, was assassinated, and in 1896 the Shah of Persia met his death at the hands of a Sayyid, and President Faure was fired at by a man named Francois while the Elysee, this attempt to be followed by , another unsuccessful one a year later. The year that witnessed the second attempt on the life of King Humbert witnessed the assassination of Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish Premier. It was in 1898 that the Empress of Austria was stabbed by the Anarchist Lilbcliesi, at Geneva, and that an attempt was made on the life of King George of Greece. A plot was disoorer-

ad to assassinate the Grown Prince of Italy when on his way to Vienna to attend the funeral of the Empress of Austria. Two Italian Anarchists who had been deputed for the purpose were watched by the police in Styria, and one was arrested, the other having escaped. In 1900 King Humbert of Italy was shot and killed at M'onza by Gaetano Bresci. In February, 1901, M. Bogoliepoff, a Russian statesman, was killed, and in September of the same year Leon Czolgosz assassinated President McKinlev, of the United States at Buffalo. In 1902 M. Sipidguine, a Russian statesman, was murdered, and an attempt wiv* made on the life of the King of the Belgians. In 1903 a lunatic tried to kill President Roosevelt, and Mr Roosevelt has lately been the victim of another murderous attack. In 1903 occurred the dreadfully sanguinary revolution in Servia, when King Alexander and Queen Draga were brutally murdered. _ In 1904 an attempt was made on the life of Senor Maura, the Spanish Premier. In that year also M. de Plehve, the Russian statesman, was assassinated, and in the following year Delyanni, the Greek Premier, was a victim. In 1905, too, the Russian Grand Duke Sergius was murdered and an attempt was made on the life of King Alfonso of Spain. The Portuguese. revolution, it . will he recalled, followed upon the assassination of the King and Crown Prince in January, 1908. In 1910 the Prime Minister of Egypt was assassinated. In 1911 the Russian Minister. M. Stolypin, fell a victim to Anarchist passion ; and in 1913 the Spanish Premier (Senor Canalejas) was shot in the street.