The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-06-13

the wedding and postpone the coro-
nation If necessary.
She issued a statement recently to
the effect that many pressing invita-
tions had been received from Wo-
mems clubs and civic societies In the
United States and that she found 1t
difficult to resist them.
Born Second Son
King Alexander of J~ugoslavia,
second son of the late King Peter of
Serbia, became heir apparent to his
fathers throne in 1909 when his cid
err brother, Prince George renowned
his rights as a sequel to a bitter press
campaign in which an almost endless
list of outrages were charged against
him. The campaign was intensified
by charges that the royal youngster
had murdered one of his servants
during a fit of anger.
Serbia, upon its liberation from the
Austrians, became the predominant
state in the organization of Jugosla-
via, therefore it was certain that its
Prince Regent, as Alexander had been
designated when King Peter retired
in 1914, was headed straight for the
new throne.
He had won the respect and esteem
of the Balkans in many ways, but
chiefly through his efforts to unite
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, for
merly under the Austrian yoke. These
e%ndeavors won him the title of Peace
maker. His action in appointing
governors for Serbia, Montenegro,
Slavonia, Bosnia, Dalmatia and Croa-
tia was warmly approved.
King Peter died in August, 1921, at
the age of 76, and Alexander, then
suffering from an attack of appendi-
citis in a Paris hospital, was pro.
claimed his fathers successor at Bel
grade.
King Alexander was born in 1888.
AS a youth he was frail and sickly,
but his career began to give more
promise after several years of hard
campaigning at the head of Serbia's
army. His education was completed
at Petrograd and his first real mill.
kan War of 1912.
Devoted to Allies
Throughout the World War he was
devoted to the Allied cause. It was
Alexander who ordered the mobiliza-
ton of Serbia's army and personally
led it into battle. H. was severely
wounded in the fighting around Bel.
grade before his troops were forced
to ~evacuate the city, and barely es'
capped capture at Nish, where he sci
I'D a capital for a brief period before
The Austrians entered.
Several attempts were made to as
sassinate him during his regency, and
after he became King. The latest OF
these occurred in June, 1921, and re
suited in the death of one person and
the wounding of six others. Some
$4,000 persons were arrested as
result of the plot.
Bride Of Rare Beauty
The young Princess Marie, called
the prettiest Princess In Europe, il
only 20 years of age. She is The
second daughter of King Ferdinand
and Queen Marie of Rumania, and Ii
not we'll known for the reason tina
her life has been spent quietly a.
home except for a short period IL
England, where she attended schoo
Her mother, born ar English Prin
cess, has one of the most interesting
personalities to be found among thu
crowned heads of Europe. While sh'
has been charged with attempting tt
build up a tremendous power by mar
rying her children to the greatest pc
litical advantage, she has stated EN-
phatically that the betrothal of Marie
was the result of a genuine low
match.
at is a mistake and unfair to sa!
that it is a political marriage, sh'
|, said recently. Even among king
and ~princesses there is such a thin
as love at first sight. That is wha
happened in this CASE.