SORROWING QUEENS

Northern Advocate, 12 October 1934, Page 5

SORROWING QUEENS

SAD REUNION AT PARIS BOY KING IN MOTHER’S ARMS. HEARS ABOUT THE TRAGEDY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, October 11. Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, and President Le Brun of France, arrived at the Gare de Lyon from Marseilles. Elaborate precautions were taken, only a few diplomats, ministers and officials were allowed on the platform. Queen Marie of Rumania and her daughter, Princess Ileana, greeted the widowed Queen, who, with her mother, wept unrestrainedly in each other’s arms, , They then entered a car and drove to the Yugoslav Legation, where the boy King was waiting. When they were reunited in the strongly guarded Yugoslav Legation, the boy King learned from the stricken mother’s lips the full details of his father’s assassination, . the implicacations of which he cannot even yet fully realise.

Queen Marie, after a loving embrace, controlled her emotions, though on the verge of a breakdown, and told the story plainly and simply in the presence of the Archduke Anton of Austria, and his wife, the former Princess Ileana, sister of Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. Princess Marina and Prince Nicholas, her father, visited them later. Anxiety prevails regarding the health of Queen Marie, who is expected to bear a child early in the new year. She and the boy King departed for Belgrade at 9.15 p.m. King Peter had been . previously told that his father’s death was due to a motor accident. MARTYRED MONARCH. ' SURVIVED FOR 45 MINUTES. ANOTHER WOMAN EXPIRES. FORMIDABLE WEAPON. (Received 12.30 p.m.) PARIS, October 11. Madame Yolande Farris, fifth victim of the assassination outrage, died in the hospital after embracing her nine-months-old baby. The investigating magistrate reports that King Alexander lived for 45 minutes after he was shot. Major Houvaix, a Colonial Army doctor, responded to the call of a Prefecture official and was first to attend him. v He found that' one bullet had entered the right side and ploughed upwards to the chest. Another perforated the liver. The hearts’ action, was imperceptible. An adrenalin injection was futile. . • The assassin’s weapon, though tech- : nically an automatic pistol, was really : a machine gun capable of 280 shots a i minute. Kalemen used a belt of 10 ; shots, which he fired one by one in ! order to take aim. A similar weapon was found at his feet. - ]