MURDERED KING
General Georges, a French Army officer, who was seriously wounded during the fatal shooting at Marseilles of King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Barthou, in October, 1934, by the Yugo-Slav terrorist, Petrus Kalemen, who was immediately lynched by the furious crowd, gave evidence at the trial of three of the six alleged participants in the attack. Three others, held in foreign countries, are being tried in absentia. General Georges said that King Alexander’s last woi’ds, spoken when riding with M. Barthou in the motor car into which Kaleman fired six or seven shots from the running board, were: “I am glad to be in France. I have a great friendship for the French people.”
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Northern Advocate, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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120MURDERED KING Northern Advocate, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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