The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-10
KING PETER AND THE sERvIAN

MIMI EElEIs AMI 111A< h1A11s v ANAAN
ARMY.
At banquet few nights ago King
Peter Of Servia declared to the officers
Of the Belgrade garrison that no dis
cord exists in the army, and that full
agreement reigns between 1t and the
people Of the country. King Peter un-@
doubtedly wishes this were true. In
reality, the new conspiracy" is a far
more serious matter than the Govern
ment could dare to acknowledge Out
Of a total Of some 1,500 officers, at least
1000 are believed to be concerned in the
movement, and excepting the personal
friends and relative of the sixty-eight
Ilate King and Queen, there are prob
ably few Servians who do not at least
sympathize with tia small party be-
cause their fortunes and possibly their
lives were dependent on the late
Obrenovitch dynasty, a still smaller
party because they are honestly
ashamed of the murders. and the vast
majority because they now realize that
the revolution has led to perhaps worse
corruption and tyranny than ever exist
ed before, For the clique Of assassins
hold all the chief civil and military Off
GERS, the keys of the arsenal and the
treasure chests, and any man who
crosses them is doomed.
The King himself is surrounded and
ruled, and many are now losing hope
that he will ever be able to shake him
self free. The Minister Gentchitch, in
whose house the murder plot was
Matched and who conducted the secret
negotiations with King Peter, is openly
stated in the press to possess an in
eliminating letter, which is always kept
hanging over the royal head and is con-
stantly found most useful The Gente-
hitch, with Col. Maschin, his hitherto
lbeen supreme in the Ministry, while
lCol Mishitch, though not actually War
Minister, ruled the War Office, and Col.
Popoyitch. the First Aide-de-camp, act
ed as chief warder in the palace.
The official view of the situation was
carefully explained to me by one of the
4 ministers yesterday. He stated that
Europe was quite mistaken in thinking
that the Servian Government was in the
IA IEttIlU5 dtly lAllllSAI @Cliqu IL w cc
natural of course. that the officers who
took upon themselves all risks and
icarried the revolution through now be
Occupying many important positions,
4 for this was the wish Of the people, who
were anxious to see their .saviors" duly
rewarded. Oliver Cromwell, it was
pointed out, did not retire into privacy
latter executing King Charles I. The
status of these Seryian heroes was,
however, purely an honorary one, and
lin no way affected the responsibility
and powers of the regular Government
i 1t seems, however, that the regicides
are beginning to realize that they have
gone too far Col Mishitch no longer
Iopenly swaggers about his active parti-
Icipation in the actual MURDERS and
was careful to explain to me that he
Ionly arrived on the scene when all was
over. He protested to regard the new
conspiracy as the work of a few foolish
young men, who would probably be inn
Iprisoned for d few months and never be
heard Of again. He was careful not to
mention the fact that the government
has been afraid to arrest the senior
lii IlGW Gull
Ispiracy for fear Of showing how vide
spread it was, and has only taken hos
tages from among the most influential
and we'll to do of the younger Off
GERS connected with 1T. His shifty, ner-
vous, shanefaced manner was, however
at striking variance with his assur-
ances. He has just been removed from
his position at the War office, and is
now a professor of tactics and strategy
lat the Military College. This, when
Joined with the fact that Col. Maschin
has gone off ION leave" that Leshania,
WHOSE selection as Marshal of the Court
lcaused so much commotion short time
lago, has been permitted to assume his
position and that a new order has been
Issued limiting the duration of the APP
Ipointments on the personl staff of the
King, points to the fact that the regi-
lcides are beginning to recognize thai
4 they must really moderate their atti
tude. The election takes place on TIL,
21st, and there can be little doubt tina
the Radicals will carry the day. Blu
n Servia seems to be singularly lacking ii
strong men with respectable characters
& anu II Will Ne IulGIGSIlIlS u see whether
n any one will appear who will dare stant
up against the reigning clique, ane
4 what will be the fate Of King Peter.
Il Little interest is shown in Macedonia
A short time before the murder of TIL,
late King two bands, each perhaps
thirty to fifty strong, were organized
semi Officially, armed, and left to figh
the Turks in Kossovo. Little has beef
heard of them since, and it is evei
II doubtful whether they have crossed tn,
n frontier. Last week three Servian vii
llages close to Ristovatz were attacked
| and pillaged by Albanians. and
Pasha, the Ottoman Commissioner TO
Sthe Servian frontier, seized the oppor
tunity to point out that the Albanian
!. were really in pursuit Of these Servial
. revolutionary bands and had onl.
: crossed the border in a jealous attemp
:. to surround them. Servia is apparent
ly anxious to establish claim to shar
the spoils Of a successful Bulgarian in
\ surrection and still more anxious t
! avoid being implicated in a failure
. king Peter has assured the Turkisl