MURDERED KING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 11

MURDERED KING

FUNERAL TO-DAY TRIBUTE FROM GERMANY ARMED FORCES' WREATH HITLER SENDS DELEGATE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received October 17. 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17 The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail states that Herr Hitler has delegated General Goering, Premier of Prussia, to represent him at King Alexander's funeral on Thursday. General Goering will fly to Belgrade to-day with a wreath inscribed: ''To their former heroic opponent, with deepest feeling, from the German armed forces." BRITISH SYMPATHY OFFICIAL MOURNERS ASSEMBLAGE IN CAPITAL (Received October 17, 5.5 p.m.) British Wirelejs RUGBY, Oct. 1G Prince George, Duke of Kent, who is to represent King George at the funeral of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, also Princess Marina and her parents, Prince and Princess Nicolas, have arrived at Belgrade. They were received at the station by Prince Paul and Princess Olga, and proceeded to the palaoe, where young King Peter, his mother, and Queen Marie of Rumania are in residence. Admiral Sir William Fisher, Com-mander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, who is to represent the Navy at the funeral, will be accompanied by a naval detachment consisting of 15 officers, 100 seamen, and two marines. Prince George and his fiancee to-mor-row will view the remains of the late King and place a wreath on behalf of King George and Queen Mary. Yugoslavs resident in the Auckland Province have been requested by Mr. John M. Totich, of Dargaville, Consul for Yugoslavia, to observe this afternoon as a half-holiday in connection with the funeral of the late King .Alexander in Belgrade. ASSASSIN'S IDENTITY FINGER-PRINTS TESTED MACEDONIAN REVOLUTIONARY (Received October 17, 5.5 p.m.) SOFIA, Oct. 16 The Sofia police state that a comparison of finger-prints establishes the fact that King Alexander's assassin, hitherto called Kalemen, was Vlada Georgieff. He was formerly a chauffeur and was a Macedonian revolutionary.

SECRET SOCIETY REVOLUTIONARY INTRIGUES ARRESTED MAN CONFESSES PARIS, Oct. 16 The fugitive, whose name was thought to be Chalny, who was arrested after having wandered in the forest between Fontainebleau and Courtenay, and who was wanted in connection with the assassinations at Marseilles, has been identified as Mio Kraj. Formerly he was a chauffeur in the employ of the Yugoslav police. The man was acquainted, therefore, with police ehiefs and high officials. He. has confessed that he arrived at Zurich on September 26 from Budapest, carrying forged passports and met Kalemen, the assassin, also Rraemer, leader of the conspirators and that he then proceeded to France. Later he accompanied Kalemen to Marseilles. Kraj's confession, after a police inquisition that lasted all night, has confirmed the existence of a secret society throughout Europe, engaged in international revolutionary intrigue. The society is carefully organised with a president, a supreme council, secret signs and an oath of fidelity which binds members to execute their missions under pain of death. The members possess arms, munitions and ample funds. Kraiadmitted that he had orders to shoot King Alexander, and that he was with Kalemen in the thoroughfare, Cannebiere, Marseilles, when the procession passed, but his courage failed at the last minute and he effaced himself. This accounted for the fact that he did not rejoin Rajitch and Pospichel, the other two suspects, knowing that the penalty of a Breach of his oath was death at the hands of the gang. The confession inculpated Dr. Anten Pavelitch as president of the secret society. 1