Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-19
CzAR'S REALM SAYS
PUNISH RECICIDES
Official Note Is Issued From
st. Petersburg.
KING PETER is RECOGNIZED
Note says 1t Is Incumbent Upon New
Ruler to Avense Assassinatlons.
Dangerous to Tranquility OF Servia
To Leave Crime Unpublished.

St Petersburg, June 18.-An official
note was published in the Gazette to-
day recognizing Prince Peter Kara.
georgevitch as king of Servia and ac-
knowledging his accession In brief
the note declares that it Is incumbent
upon King Peter to avenge tn assas.
Sination of King Alexander and Queen
Draga, and expresses the conviction
that he will know how to severely pun
ish the regicides, whose misdeeds
should not be visited on the entire Ser
Wan nation or army The note adds
that it would be dangerous to the
tranquility of Seryia to leave the crime
unpublished
The text of the note follows:
A week has now elapsed since the
day of the bloody revolution at Bel
grade, an intimation of which could
not be given to the imperial govern
ment in the customary form because
the legal authority was lacking In Ser
via. Strictly adhering to her stand
point of non-intervention in the inter-
nal affairs of the. Balkan states and at
the same time finding it impossible to
hold any intercourse with the persons
who have arbitrarily usurped power,
Russia has awaited the conclusion of
the troubles in order to define clear
ly her attitude towards the events in
the kingdom of Servia. The skupsh-
tina and senate assembled in extraor-
dinary session June Is, the legal order
OF things was re-established and
Prince Peter Karageorgevitch was
unanimously elected king. The prince,
complying with the request of the ma
tional assembly, has consented to as
cend the throne of Servia under the
name of Peter l. Immediately after
the proclamation the new king tele-
graphed to the czar asking his impe-
rial majesty to recognize him as hing,
whereupon confirmation of this was
sent.
THE imperial government, while
haiNug the election of the new mon
arch. scion Of glorious dynasty, and
wishing all success as the supreme
head Of the Servian people, who are al
lied to Russia by ties of religion, can
nevertheless not refrain from express
ing the confident hope that King
Peter will be able to give evidence OF
hts sense OF justice and frmness of
will by adopting measures at the out
set to investigate the abomdnable mis-
deed which has been committed and
to mete out rigorous punishment to
those traitorous criminals who have
stained themselves with the infamy
Of regicide. Of course, the entire
Servian nation or army cannot be held
responsible for the crime which re-
volts public conscience, yet it would
be dangerous to 6ervias international
peace not to exact expiation for the
revolution carried out with violence by
the militia. Such neglect would in
evitably react In an unfavorable man
ner on the relations of all the states
with Servia and would create for
Servia serious difficulties at the COM
mencement of the reign of King Peter,
the first.
Their Russian co-reIigionists offer
TO God supplications for the repose OF
the souls of King Alexander and his
consort, who have met an untimely
end, and they invoke the blessing of
the Almighty on the rule Of King Pc
ter for the welfare and prosperity of
the Servian people"