KING’S ASSASSIN

Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 5

KING’S ASSASSIN

STEALTHY MOVEMENTS

STORY OF CONSPIRACY

MEETINGS IN HOTEL. HEINOUS DEED ARRANGED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.--*CopyrlEh t.) (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, October 11. The assassin of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, the Croat, Clemens Petrus Kalemen, entered France on September 28 with a false passport. 'Since then he had frequently changed his name and address.

The murderer rented a room in a small hotel in Paris about October 1, under the name of “Suk.” One of his friends was already staying in the hotel and another visited him. The men probably supplied Kalemen with, money, because; the _ day after hisarrival' “Silk”’ visited a store and bodght himself a new suit and overcoat. ' The scene changes to a hotel at Aix-en-Provence, where a man arrived last Sunday. He was joined that night by two others, one of whom was Kalemen. All described themselves as brothers, and avoided sighing the registration book. Kalemen and a friend had breakfast in their room on the morning of Tuesday, Afterwards they drank a considerable quantity of alcohol. Then Kalemen left for Marseilles. His companion returned to the hotel and paid the bill, after which the remaining two men departed and have not since been seen. ‘ Kalemen left Aix-en-Provence well armed, newly clothed, and with about £25 in his pocket.

FEARS ALLAYED.

CROATS’ DECISION.

AIDING THE' REGENCY,

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BELGRADE, October 10.

Pears that the Croats would precipitate ar\ immediate crisis as a sequel to the assassination of King Alexander were allayed today, when the Croatian leathers, at a meeting in Zagreb, decided to co-operate with the Regency. So far there is only talk of a military dictatorship in Yugoslavia, though many good judges regard this as inevitable. NERVOUS TENSION. COMPLICATIONS UNLIKELY. CENTRAL EUROPE CAUTIOUS. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. The “Daily Mail” states that British Ministerial opinion does not anticipate direct'international complications as the result of the Marseilles assassinations, ' inasmuch as although they have increased nervousness, they have augmented caution among the Central European Governments. Everything, it is believed, will depend upon the attitude of the Croats in response to the late King Alexander’s gesture appointing two of that nationality to the Regency Council. | AWAITING dead monarch, j , BRITISH FLEET ON HAND. I :• „ I INTERMENT AT TOPOLO. | i I • (Received 9 a.m.) MARSEILLES, October 10. According to a .telegram from Belgrade, King Alexander’s body will be landed on Friday at Sebenico, the port . to the north-west of Spalato, where the 1 greater part of the British Mediterranean Fleet will, honour his memory with the dipping of flags and the booming of guns, while 12,000 soldiers stand to attention. The body will be sent by rail from Sebenico to Belgrade, where it will lie in state prior to, the interment in the ' famous Karageorgevich dynastic mausoleum at Topolo. POLICE LA&ITTf. SEVERE PRESS CENSURE. DRASTIC- ACTION EXPECTED. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. According to the Paris correspondent of the “News Chronicle,” drastic measures against certain high police officials were expected to be taken today, for alleged laxity in protecting the late King Alexander. “We know the Police Department is gangrenous,” says “La Liberte.” “It is also incapable.” PHOTO OF THE CRIME. FILM IMPOUNDED. (Received 9 a.m.) MARSEILLES, October 10. The police have impounded the film of the procession showing the assassinations. They prevented the transmission of one film to America. 1 SCREENED IN ENGLAND. GRUESOME FEATURES CUT OUT. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. Scotland Yard saw uncut films of the assassination, with the object of spotting international criminals. The censor has deleted the lynching of the assassin and the close-up of the lying King as too gruesome for public exhibition. Despite the vigilance of the authorities, who instructed Imperial Airways pilots to see that no films of the assassination were flown to England, one film corporation succeeded in smuggling news reels of the shooting to London, where they were widely screened.