AFFRONT TO WORLD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1930, Page 5

AFFRONT TO WORLD

SERAJEVO CEREMONY MEMORIAL TO PRINCIP ASSASSIN OF AUSTRIAN ARCH- i DUKE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Ist February. Several newspapers, referring to the ceremony being held on Sunday at Sarajevo, of the unveiling of the me- . morial to Gabriel Princip, the nineteen-. year-old assassin whose crime paved the way to the World War, describe it as one of the most remarkable ceremonies iu history, amounting to an affront to the world. The memorial will be placed on the exact spot where Princip stood when he fired the fatal shot as the motor car in which the Archduke and his wife were being driven was backing out of a cul-de-sac. This part of the Serajevo quayside already bears the name of "Princip" whose deed is signalised by an imposing tomb and tablet in another portion of the town on which are the words: "To the patriot who liberated the country from its oppressors." To-morrow's will be the third memorial with his name and portrait. It was the intention of the "Black Hand" to erect a magnificent monument, pretentious and belligerent, but owing to the intervention of King Alexander, who possibly guessed the effect of such. a display abroad, this was abandoned. Great preparations are proceeding for the ceremony which will be the occasion for widespread festivities.