RIOTS AT SERAJEVO

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 7

RIOTS AT SERAJEVO

INTER-RACIAL TROUBLES HOUSES WITHOUT CREPE ALLEGIANCE TO BOY KING REGENTS TAKE THE OATH By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.15 p.m. London, Oct. 12. Disturbances broke out last night throughout Serajevo, says the British United Press correspondent. Rioters attacked all houses that were not displaying black crepe for King Alexander and attacked the Catholic cathedral and churches because black flags were not displayed. A bomb was exploded at the post office and demolished the interior, wounding one official. Anti-Italian riots have occurred at Jjubljana (Yugoslavia) following a protest meeting at which speakers asserted that Italy had financed the attempts on King Alexander’s life. The crowd attacked the Italian Consulate but the police intervened. The Government later categorically denied that rioting had taken place. Every window at Belgrade is displaying mourning or a portrait of King Alexander. The bookshop of Madame Raditch, widow of the Creation leader who was murdered in 1928, is the solitary exception. Madame Raditch, who is aged 60, sits in her shop defying the authorities, who dare not precipitate a Serb-Croation conflict. Madame Raditch started the shop in 1911 to help her husband’s campaign for Croatian freedom, but her full popularity began after her husband was shot in 1928. IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. The three Yugoslavian Regents, Prince Paul, M. Stankovitch, former Minister of Education, and M. Banterovitch, Governor of Zagreb, took the oath of allegiance to the boy King Peter at an impressive ceremony in the Yugoslav Parliament. The Regents were cheered by dense crowds upon leaving the building. Queen Marie of Yugoslavia and President Lebrun arrived to-day at the Gare de Lyon station at Paris. Elaborate precautions were taken and only a few diplomats, Ministers and officials were allowed on the platform. Queen Marie of Rumania (mother of the Queen of Yugoslavia) and Princess Ileana (sister) greeted her, the Queens weeping unrestrainedly in each other’s arms. They then entered a car and drove to the Yugoslav Legation, where the boyKing Peter was waiting. When they were reunited at the strongly guarded building King Peter learned frdm his stricken mother’s lips the details of the assassination, the implications of which he cannot even yet fully realise. Queen Marie, after a loving embrace, controlled her emotion, though she was on the verge of a breakdown and told the story plainly and simply in the presence of Prince Anton and Princess Ileana, after which Princess Marina and Prince Nicholas visited them. Peter had been previously told that his father was killed in a motorcar accident.

Anxiety prevails regarding the health of Queen Marie, who is expected to bear a child early in the New Year. Queen Marie and King Peter left Paris for Belgrade at 9.15 p.m.

NEW ZEALAND SYMPATHY

GOVERNMENT’S MESSAGE. Wellington, Last Night. His Excellency Sir Michael Myers, de-puty-Govemor-General, has sent for communication to the Governments of Yugoslavia and France messages on behalf of the Government in New Zealand deploring the dastardly assassination of the King of Yugoslavia and the French Foreign Minister, and expressing the Government’s deep sympathy with those countries in their national loss.