SWEARING FEALTY.
YUGOSLAVIA’S BOY KING.
60,000 RESERVISTS PARTICIPATE,
ALEXANDER BRIDGE OPENED
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BELGRADE, Dec. 16.
Sixty thousand reservists aged between 21 and 55 rent the air with cheers when, after assembling 'on the parade ground they took the oath of loyalty to King Peter. The capital and all the towns were denuded of their male inhabitants andtransport vehicles, because every member of the 2,000,000 reserve forces throughout the country simultaneously swore fealty, the priests of the six different religions administering the oath in Belgrade.
The Regent, Prince Paul, in the presence of a vast concourse, subsequently opened the reparations .bridge across the Danube between Belgrade and the suburb of Zemun, and christened it Alexander Bridge in honour of the martyred King. Yugoslavs completed half the structure after 1932, when the German provision of materials under the reparations clause ceased.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19341218.2.79
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19453, 18 December 1934, Page 8
Word Count
143SWEARING FEALTY. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19453, 18 December 1934, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in