The King Warned of the Plot.
The Official Report.
BELGRADE, June 15.
Colonel Zivanoviteh, beloMging^to the gendral staff, suicided. IJJfej warning -'thft:sing of thp .sAot*,?vaß; { f6jiiicl aljaong King Alexander's papers. LONDON, 'JVine 15.
Router's Belgrade corrcsgondontj that an 'officer connected" with tRc v execution of the plot has reported to M. Avakumovich tlie following facts, which- will, shortly be embodied in an official protocol Sox the information of ijh 1 ' worjd : — Early in May one of the officers in the conspirators council.. warn§d <v 'the King, who transferred the officers to provincial garrisons. Jlc feared to 'Wka r s'ttdnger measure's. Simultaneously the conspirators sent* a Jacty to Geneva to invite Peter, promising" thai tiie aimy.vKmld vrcl<omc and proclaim him if he would agree to a Liberal Constitution similar to that of 1888. Peter accepted the terms, ami . thereupon the conspirators decided on the tragedy. .Maschin, the leader of the plot, by a private summons. brought a number of the conspiring officers from the provinces to the city. They slipped on the uight of the tragedy at a Belgrade restaurant, and arranged' the details, which wero' executed as last "cabled. -They- spent two - hours eoarehing evory room. They killed Pctrovics when they ascertained that the King's hidbig-plaoe wai? a -secret door/in., the wall of a bath-room leading by a islair'casc to- the roof. * • ■
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10976, 16 June 1903, Page 5
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