MURDERED MONARCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 11

MURDERED MONARCH

EVE OF FUNERAL PRECAUTIONS IN BELGRADE PROTECTION FOR CELEBRITIES SIX THOUSAND ARRESTS By Telegraph—Pres3 Association— Copyright (Received October 16. P. 45 p.m.) BELGRADE. Oct. 17 The police have taken unexampled precautions to protect celebrities as they walk in the funeral procession of King Alexander to-morrow. There will be two Kings, four Princes, President Lebrun and Marshal Petain (France) and General Goering (Germany). They will be protected along two miles of streets by soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder. Only boys and girls will be permitted to stand on the right-hand side of the roads, so that the troops can devote themselves to watching the other side, where the general public will collect, behind more soldiers. All windows along the route will be closed. No 'flowers will be permitted to be thrown. Nobody may carry anything, even an umbrella. All sidestreets will bo vacated, and everybody must be in place at 7 a.m. Nobody may leave until the coffin has passed and the mourners have boarded a train for Topola. The population of Belgrade has been trebled in the past three days. Thousands of police spies are mingling with the people. Six thousand precautionary arrests have been made and the gaols are over- j crowded. Many of those arrested have j been locked in cellars. SERVICE IN LONDON PRINCE TO REPRESENT KING MINISTERS WILL ATTEND British Wireless RUGBY, Oct. 17 The Prince of Wales will represent the King at an official memorial service for King Alexander, to be held in London to-morrow. Sir John Simon and several other Ministers, as well as the members of the diplomatic corps, will be among those who will attend. ________ —————— YUGOSLAV CABINET CHANGES CONTEMPLATED LATE KING'S PROPOSALS LONDON, Oct, 17 The Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that interest now centres on the personality of Prince Paul, whom King Alexander obviously intended to govern the country. The Prince's fellow-regents were expected to be principally concerned with King Alexander's family affairs and his private fortune, which is reliably estimated at between £500,000 and £1,000,000. The French financial group which is backing Yugoslavia's enterprises privately conveyed to Prince Paul, after several conferences, their confidence that their investments were safe under the new Regency. They believe the Prince may prove firm, but more conciliatory than King Alexander. It is known that King Alexander was embarrassed by persons who had acquired claims against him during the talk an and the World Wars. This ique had become a burden on the State, and King Alexander intended to rid himself of it. He had prepared a list of a new Cabinet of National Concentration. The new officials had intended to make a change on the King's return from France, and a cablegram was despatched on the day of his death, stating: "The way is clear for your changes." That message never reached him. The list has now come into the possession of Prince Paul, who will summon Parliament for next week. It is believed that he will then unfold his plans for a Government of National Concentration, coupled with a general amnesty.