KING'S ASSASSIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21932, 16 October 1934, Page 9

KING'S ASSASSIN

DETAILS OF CAREEK MACEDONIAN TERRORIST TWO FORMER MURDERS SINISTER ACTIVITIES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht BELGRADE, Oct. 14 Two Yugoslav Macedonians have identified Kalemen, who assassinated King Alexander and M. Barthou, as Vlacha Georgiev. They say, he was born in Kanienitza, Macedonia, in 1894, a Bulgarian subject, and that formerly he was a member of a Macedonian revolutionary organisation. The police have ascertained that Georgiev killed the agrarian leader Hadjimov in 1921. Ho was punished for a terrorist attempt in 1924, and killed the leader of the Comitadji, one Tomalevski, in 1930. He escaped with Vantche Mihailoff, leader of the revolutionary organisation, in 1931, and became his chauffeur. Georgiev left Bulgaria for Budapest, where he became a liaison officer between the Macedonians and Croat emigre terrorists at the Yankapuszta camp. A message from Paris states that the organiser of the assassinations is believed to have been a law student named Eugen Kvaternik, who was born in Belgrade in 1910. COMPLICITY CHARGED TWO ARRESTED MEN FRESH ALIASES REVEALED MARSEILLES, Oct. 14 The two men who were arrested following the assassinations at Marseilles, Ladislas Benes, alias Raich, but actually Ivan Rajich, and Jaroslav Novak, alias Pospisel, actually Pospichil, were both formally Charged today with complicity in the murders. MURDERED RULER BODY CONVEYED HOME BRITISH NAVAL TRIBUTE BELGRADE, Oct. 14 The late King Alexander's body arrived at. Spalato in the warship Dubrovnik and was saluted with 101 guns. The coffin was carried through the streets and then placed on a train for Zagreb en route to Belgrade. Units of the British Mediterranean Fleet, which are at present spread out among the Yugoslav ports, where they were paying courtesy visits when the Marseilles outrage occurred, assembled off Spalato and met the Dubrovnik. The coffin proceeded slowly by train to Zagreb, stopping at the bigger stations, and remaining at Zagreb overnight. Early this morning the journey to Belgrade was continued. The body will lie in state in the Palace to-morrow and on Wednesday, and the funeral, at which King George will be* represented by the Duke of Kent, will take place on Thursday. BOY MONARCH A FORMAL CEREMONY LOYALTY OF HIS SUBJECTS BELGRADE, Oct. 14 The Mayor of Belgrade to-day offered King Peter 11. the traditional Oriental gift of bread and salt. The Prime Minister, M. Nikola Uzunovic, was visibly moved by the young King's dignified bearing when he pronounced the official welcome. He said: "The Government and the people greet Your Majesty and express their unbounded and unshakeable devotion. We swear that we will firmly stand behind Ybur Majesty, our well-beloved King, the hope of Yugoslavia, fulfilling the will of your immortal father, the unifier of Yugoslavia." At the Dedidje Palace K'"g Peter returned, not to a play-room with cupboards filled with toys, but to the State apartments, which so far he has rarelv visited. In spite of the law that the Sovereign must reside in Yugoslavia, it is hope to enable King Peter soon to return to school in Surrey, ns it is feare that the constant atmosphere of official ceremony will interfere with his upbringing. - TRAINED REGICIDES HUNGARIAN DENIAL INDIGNATION OF PRESS BUDA PEST. Oct. 14 The whole of the Hungarian press indignantly denies that regicides are trained in Hungary. One newspaper admits that there are several Croatian exiles and refugees in Hungary, but savs there are many more elsewhere, notably in Paris, where a well-known refugee recently published an attack on the late King Alexander. LATE M. BARTHOU FUNERAL OF STATESMAN KING GEORGE REPRESENTED British Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 13 The King was represented at the funeral of the late M. Barthou by the British Ambassador, in Paris, Sir George Clerk. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, who arrived in Paris by air to attend the funeral, called on the l'rench Prime Minister, M. Dounicrgue, o olfer his personal condolences on the death of M. Barthou.