WAS KING ALBERT MURDERED?

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20298, 7 May 1934, Page 1

WAS KING ALBERT MURDERED?

English Author Arouses Storm by

Asserting He Was.

“ A HORRIBLE LIE,” SAYS EMBASSY. (United Press Association.—By Electric TeleeranTi.—Copyright.) (Received May 7, 11.45 a.m.) ATT ,_ LONDON, May 6. •t i IN G ALBERT did not meet his death by an accidental fall, but was tapped on the back hf the head,” declared Mr Graham Hutchinson, author and publicist, in an address in the Nottingham Writers’ Club. He added that the story of the King’s death was issued in Belgium before he died. “ A man with a rope around his waist does not go climbing by himself. His body and hands were not bruised. The facts are that the King would not participate in the deviltry of France conspiring for war against defenceless Germany.” Interviewed subsequently, Mr Hutchinson declared that he was in possession of documentary and circumstantial evidence that King Albert was tapped on the back of the head. The Belgian people well knew the facts.

The Secretary of the Belgian Em- . bassy, commenting on Mr Hutchin- I son’s statement, said: “ It is a horrible j lie that decent-minded people throughout the world will treat with contempt, j If Mr Hutchinson will come to the j Embassy and repeat his statement I ! shall punch him on the jaw.” The statement was received with disgust in Brussels. It is stated that it will not bear scrutiny. King Albert j

I always used a rope when climbing * alone. There was gruesome proof that | his head struck a rock. An alpinist, Count de Grunne, who J organised the search party, says: “ The | official account of the circumstances I of the King’s death can be indisputably | confirmed by facts and photographs. Mr Hutchinson declined to make any further statement in view of the I Belgian Embassy’s denial.