The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-12
"vOGISLAv VELIKOVICS,
 Minister of Finance. COL. ALEXANDER MACHIN,


 'vOGISLAV VELIKOVICS.
 Minister of Finance.
 COL. ALEXANDER MACHIN,
 Minister of Public Works.
 "LJUBOMIR SCHIOKOVECS.
 Minister of Justice"
 The streets are thronged with people whose actions seem to approve the coup de tat. M. Protics the new minister of the interior. was loudly cheered as he drove to the ministry.
 M. Avakumovics, the new premier, be- longs to the independent liberal party.
 Wild Excitement Prevails.
 As the morning advanced the excite ment in the streets grew steadily. In spite of the pouring rain thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of the palace. Everywhere troops of all arms were posted and field guns were placed In position to quickly deal with any op- position to the newly formed govern ment's will The soldiers discarded every cockades bearing the late King Alexan- der's cipher and substituted for 1t flow CTS, green twigs and leaves.
 Bands of young men paraded the streets waving flags and shouting: Long live Karageorgevitch.
 Flags are flying from nearly every house in Belgrade, and there Is abso- lutely no display whatever of crepe or other signs of mourning. The royal stand ard has been lowered from over the pal ace. Reports from places outside Belgrade indicate that the country accepts the dis appearance of the Obronovitch dynasty without regret
 WHILE KING AND QUEEN FACE
 DEATH STREETS ARE OCCUPIED. Vienna, June 11.-While the king and palace, the streets of Belgrade were al- ready occupied by soldiers and an armed force surrounded the royal residence. The horses and guns of the batteries of ar tlllery were all decorated with ever greens as for festival. The soldiers dis carded the badge of King Alexander from their helmets.
 An attempt was made to support the dynasty by the commander of the Danube division, who tried to march the Eighth regiment of infantry into the city to help the late king, but he was opposed by body of troops under Colonel Gagowits In the fight which ensued. both the of ficers mentioned were killed.
 What purports to be an official expla- nation of the tragedy was Issued at Belgrade during the day. It says:
 Official Explanation.
 After dinner on Wednesday evening the king and queen, with some of their relatives and several ministers, sat on the balcony of the palace. Suddenly the king demanded that Queen Draga leave the country. She refused and was sup ported by some of the ministers. When the king saw this opposition he ordered the military to occupy the palace. In the meanwhile, the queens friends were also active and collected her supporters. It was in a fight between the two factions that the king and queen were killed"
 The startling news from Belgrade dis turbed the solemn ceremonial of the an- nual Corpus Christi procession in man ner unprecedented in Emperor Francis Jospeh's long reign. Men attempted to throw bulletins announcing the news over the heads of the soldiers to the crowds watching the procession. While the pro cession was opposite the Hoffburg court, Chamberlain Monte Nuevo informed the emperor that foreign Minister Golucho- wsky desired to make a statement to him and when notified of the occurrences at Belgrade his majesty was visibly af- fected and immediately communicated the news to the heir-presumptive to the throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Parliament Wants Russian Appreciation A dispatch received by the Austrian for eign office this afternoon announces that the Servian parliament which had been summoned for June 15 will only elect Prince Peter Karageorgevitch king in the event of Austria and Russia not op- posing such a step. Austria would not object because. although. the prince was once the avowed enemy of Austria, he has since given repeated assurances that in the event of his coming to the throne of servia he was desirous of living ami- cably with Austria.
 The question of Austria's intervention in the present situation has so far been considered in the case of civil war break ing out Otherwise It is regarded as be- ing Servia's private affairs.
 In case of civil war in Servia. Aus tria's forcple intervention is possible only