NATIONS IN GRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22391, 12 October 1934, Page 9

NATIONS IN GRIEF

ASSASSINATION VICTIMS KING AND STATESMAN UNIVERSAL HORROR EVOKED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MARSEILLES, October 10. Every token of mourning was offered when, as the troops kept the quayside passage clear, pending the arrival of - the widowed Queen of Jugoslavia and the grief-stricken statesmen of France, the Dubrovnik underwent preparations for her departure to Spalato with King Alexander’s body. The mortuary car conveyed the oak and silver coffin shrouded with the Jugoslavian flag, to the waterside. It was preceded' by - a motor car containing police chiefs, then a car carrying - the heavily veiled Queen and President ■ Lebrun. Queen Marie and President Lebrun followed the coffin, as, after being kissed by Jugoslavian officers, it came aboard, six Frepch and six Jugoslavian officers at the" gangway saluting it with their swords, while 2000 infantrymen presented arms. The officers of the Dubrovnik acted as pall-bearers. The coffin, with the King’s sword upon it, was placed on a platform on the after-deck The strains of the Jugoslav anthem, followed by the “ Marseillaise,” pealed across the harbour, in which all the .anchored ships displayed signs of naval mourning. Queen Marie bent and kissed the flag and departed with President Lebrun. The Dubrovnik weighed anchor and steamed out for Spalato, convoyed by French battleships and submarines. Aboard her were M. Peitri (French Minister of Marine) and Marshal Petain, who will represent France at the funeral. The silence of the 50,000 mourners crowding the quay was so complete that the sea- could be heard lapping the piles of the wharf. Queen Marie and President Lebrun left for Paris on' the Presidential train at 7 o’clock in the evening. Another. train conveying the other members of Cabinet carried M. Barthou’s coffin. The body will lie in state in the Salon d’Horloge ' at the Qua! d’Orsay. _ . ". . s ABSOLUTION FOR THE KING MARSEILLES, October 10. M. Heriot and M. Tardieu have arrived here. They agreed that M. Barthou’s State funeral should take place in Paris on October 13. . The Pope has given absolution to King Alexander,' Queen Marie received President Lebrun, who, controlling his emotion with difficulty, expressed his grief. The Queen thanked him in low tones and discussed the last rites before the King’s body .was placed aboard the jrarship Dubrov“nik for Jugoslavia. The Queen and President Lebrun then left for Pari* to join Prince Peter. THE NEW JUGOSLAVIAN KING , LONDON, October 10. Prince Peter’s housemaster awakened him at 6 a.m. before the. other boys were astir, and told him to dress quickly to receive an urgent message.. The boy was taken to the headmaster’s study, where the news of King Alexander’s death was disclosed to-him. Prince Peter was driven, to the Jugoslav Legation in London.' .He cast a quick glance at the flag at halfmast as a battery ofpress photographers snapped him. Victoria station was heavily guarded by police when Prince Peter and Dowager ■Queen; Marie of Rumania departed for Paris. The approaches were thronged with thousands of sympathisers. Prince Peter smiled in response to cheers and shouta-of ‘‘good luck.*’ KING PETER IN FRANCE - PARIS, October 10. ' King Peter and the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania arrived at Calais and left for Paris with a strong police , guard. .. . ‘ , • - . . ASSASSIN’S BROTHER ARRESTED BELGRADE, October 10. King Peter, under his father’s will, wilL Jeturn to school in England after the funeral. Demonstrations _ against Kalemen occurred at Sarajevo and Zagreb. It was denied that the assassin was a Croat, but when- the demonstrators -began to mention Italy the police dispersed the meetings. It is understood , that Kalemen’s -brother, who is a dental surgeon, has ■ been arrested BRITISH PRESS TRIBUTES -* <British Official Wireless.) - • ; RUGBY, October To. It is doubtful if any political crime has ever evoked such universal horror and condemnation, and these sentiments, calling forth the deepest sympathy .for the families and nations of the dead King and the dead staternan, are expressed in the press of every country. In Britain the newspapers, without exception, pay tribute to the intense loyalty to their respective countries which were the common characteristics of King Alexander and M. Barthou. The Times says: “From a general European standpoint. King Alexander’s murder ;is all the' more disastrous in that he had long maintained a directing hand on the foreign policy of his country. . His last fatal journey had been undertaken with the object of discussing conditions of better relationship between his country and Italy as an essential preliminary to a Franco-Italian understanding, on which so much depends. All will unite in sympathy with the French that just at this moment when M, Barthou was bent upon reconciliating the long-standing difference between their country and Italy his influence should have been so cruelly removed from European diplomacy.” GERMAN PRESS COMMENT BERLIN, October 10. The Allgcmeine Zeitung eays that' Versailles has claimed two more victims. Other German newspapers say that Germany had little sympathy for Kang Alexander’s aims, though she respected him as a man. ITALY’S SYMPATHY ROME, October 10. Signor Mussolini’s paper, Popolo d’ltalia, condemns the tragedy which has suddenly upset international life. It says: “The recent shadows in the Adriatic, following press comment in Jugoslavia which wounded us, cannot affect our sympathy.”

FRENCH CRISIS LIKELY PARIS, October 8. A French political crisis is likely to arise from the assassination. The deputies are clamouring for the resignation of the Minister of the Interior (M. Sarraut), owing to his failure to take measures to protect distinguished strangers. They also want the resignation of the Minister of Justice (M. Cheron). JUGOSLAVIANS DETAINED PARIS, October 10. The police are searching the houses of Jugoslavian Separatists resident in France. Fifteen have been detained.' MOURNING IN ENGLAND (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. The Court of St. James will go into full mourning from to-day until Monday, October 22. •THE ASSASSIN’S PASSPORT BELGRADE, October 10. The ‘police state that they know nothing about Kalemen’s passport, which must have been forged. The authorities in Prague also state that the passport is a forgery. The Havas Agency says that Kalemen was a wellknown terrorist in Belgrade. GENERAL GEORGES IMPROVING MARSEILLES, October 10. The condition of General Georges is Improving. The bullet has not yet been extracted. A second woman succumbed to a bullet wound in connection with the assassinations. KING CAROL PROSTRATED BUCHAREST, October 10. (Received Oct. 11, at 5.5 p.m.) The assassination has prostrated King Carol, who spent most of the day with the Crown Prince Michael, who is almost the same age as King Peter. The Government, in view of the current unrest, does not desire King Carol to visit Jugoslavia to attend the funeral. CROATS ON REGENCY COUNCIL LONDON, Ootober 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 10 p.m.) The Daily Mail says; “British Ministerial opinion does not anticipate dinct international complications as a result of the assassination for the reason that, though it has increased nervousness, it has augmented caution among Central European administations. Everything is believed to depend on the attitude of the Croats in response to King Alexander’s gesture in appointing two people of that nationality to the Regency Council.” i POLICE IMPOUND FIUVIS MARSEILLES, October 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 10 p.m.) The police have impounded films of the procession showing the assassination and prevented the transmission of such films to America. ATTITUDE OF THE CROATS , , BELGRADE. October 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 10 p.m.) Fears that the Croats would precipitate .an, immediate , crisis were allayed /when the Croatian leaders, at a meeting at Zagreb, decided to co-operate with the Regency. Thus far .there is only talk of. a military dictatorship, though .many good judges regard this as inevitable. King Alexander’s body will be landed at Zelenika on October 12. The greater part of the British Mediterranean Fleet will honour his memory with the dipping of flags and booming of guns while 12,000 sailors stand to attention. The body will be railed from Zelenika to Belgrade, where it will lie in state prior to interment in the famous Karageorgovich Dynastic Mausoleum at Topolo. THE ASSASSIN’S MOVEMENTS PARIS, October 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 11 p.m.) Kalemen entered. France on September 28 with a false passport and since then he frequently changed his name and address. He tqok a room at a small hotel here about October 3 under the name of Snk. One of his friends was already staying at the hotel and another visited him. These probably supplied him with money, because the day after his arrival Suk visited a store and bought himself a new-suit and overcoat. The scene changes to a hotel in Aix m Provence, where a man arrived on October 7 and was joined that night by two others, one of whom was Kalemen. All described themselves as brothers, avoiding signing the registration book. Kalemen and bis friend had breakfast in their room on the morning" of October 9 and drank a considerable quantity of alcohol, after which Kalemen departed, for Marseilles. His companion returned to the hotel and paid the bill, after which the remaining two departed and have not been seen since. Kalemen left well armed and newly clothed, with about £25 in his pocket. POLICE LAXITY ALLEGED. CONDON, October 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 11 p.m.) According to the News-Chronicle’s Paris correspondent drastic measures against certain high police officials are expected to-day for alleged laxity in protecting Fang Alexander. “We know the police department is gangrenous.” says La Liberte. “It is also incapable;” EMBASSY FOREWARNED BRUSSELS, October 10. The Jugoslavian Embassy, was warned that an attempt would be made on King Alexander’s life, and communicated with Paris, where the police kept special watch on subversive elements. FURTHER ARRESTS LONDON, October 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 1.30 a.m.) Two men who were arrested at Annemasse Hantesovois are believed to have been Kalemen’s accomplices. The police visited a small villa in Fontainebleau in search of another suspect, but as they arrived a man rushed out, firing a revolver, and fled to the forest, which the police are now scouring. RECENT ASSASSINATIONS Since 1924, the chief political assassinations have been: — 1924. June 10—Giacomo Matteotti, moderate Socialist .leader in the Italian Parliament, kidnapped near Rome. Body found on August 15. 1925. February 13 —Professor Nicola Mileff, Bulgarian Minister-designate to the United States, killed at Sofia.

1926. May 25—General Simon Petlura, exPresident of the Ukranian Republic, killed by a compatriot in Paris. 1927. June 7 —Peter Lazarevitch Viokoff, Soviet Russian Minister to Poland, shot at Warsaw by a Russian monarchist, July 10—Kevin O’Higgins, Vicepresident of the Irish Free State, shot near Dublin. 1928. ' May; 20—General Luis Mena, exPresident of Nicaragua, shot at Poneloya by a countryman. June 20—Stephan Raditch, leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, Paul Raditch, his nephew, and Dr George Basaritchik, shot at Belgrade. July 17—Ex-President and Presidentelect General Alvaro Obregon, of Mexico, shot at San Angel by Jose de Leon Torol. an artist and religious fanatic. 1930. June 7—Dr Albert von Baligand, German Minister to Portugal, shot by a man from Danzig. July 26—Joao Pessoa, President of the Brazilian State of Parahyba, assassinated at Recife by a political foe. 1932. May 6—At Paris, Paul Doumer, President of the Republic, shot by a Russian exile, Paul Gougoloff. * May 15—At Tokio, Ki Inukai, Japanese Premier, shot by army jingoists. 1933. February 15 —At Miami, attempt by Italian anarchist to shoot Franklin D. Roosevelt, President-elect. The bullet fatally wounded Anton J. Cermak, Mayor of Chicago. The anarchist was Joseph Zangara, who was electrocuted on March 20. April 30—Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, shot at Lima. June 6—Assia Khan, elder brother of King Nadir, of Afghanistan, shot at Berlin by an Afghan student. December 29—Dr lan Duca, Premier of Rumania, killed at Sinaia by a former university student, the assassin declaring himself an ardent disciple of Hitlerism. 1934. July 25 —Dr Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, shot during a Nazi uprising by Otto Planetta, a former soldier and chauffeur.