The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-10
MORE MYSTERY DEVELOPES, LINBBERGH kIDNAPPIN
UNDERWORLD CHARACTER AT WORK
Kings Hold on Jugoslapia Cro,vs Shaky Hidden
 Forces Said to Threaten Monarchy's Stability

 of discontent from under the placid surface of Jugoslavia are being heard with increased distinctnes in Vienna, the whispering gallery of Balkan politics.
 Some of the mutterings go so far as to predict that this spring, April for instance, may echo to outbursts of, perhaps, really serious trouble for King Alexander and his right hand man, General zikovitch.
 But on the surface all is as se- rene as it was before promulgation of the new constitution last Sep tember. The document presaged the end of the dictatorship which the king established in January, 1929. "A new parliament has been assembled and since opposition par ties declined to take part in the voting, the legislature is 100 per cent pro-government.
 Furthermore, the king has the support of well disciplined army, efficient gendarmerie and an espio- mage system as elaborate and close ly drawn as any in Europe There are also courts extraordinary to deal with eases involving defense of the realm and from their Ver- diets there is no appeal.
 Opposition lies Low
 The natural result is that opposi- tion people make no great show of courage as individuals. They take jobs in government offices if they can get them, or even in the army and gendarmerie, wear "yes-man" smiles, and lie low until an opi,or- tunity for a sudden and, mayhap, bloody overthrow of those in power presents itself.
 It is this characteristic of south ern 5lav opposition which made these provinces a terro4 to the Ottoman sultans and is making them today a worry to their own native born King Alexander Before the new constitution was given to the people, defining the re- responsibilities of the cabinet minis ters and Parliament to the king, but emitting to mention to whom, if anybody, the king was responsi- ble, most of the regimes attention was absorbed by Crotia and Mace donia.
 King Loses Support The loyal" provinces = Monte negro, where Alexander was born, and Serbia, Bosnia, and Herzego- vina, stronghold of his most pow- erful supporting factions were quiet. The people believed in Alex ander and in his promise to give them back their liberties as soon as conditions warranted
 In the five months that have passed since the promulgation of the constitution. however, observers have noted a change in the situa- tion.
 The king has lost many faithful supporters. Recent student demon- strations were not led by the Croats and Macedonians, but by Serbs, Montenegrins and Bosnians, form erly his loyal subjects.
 In Verbska Banja. where Premier Zikovitch was taking cure, he was grazed by bullet fired by a student from Belgrade University. No newspaper in Jugoslavia report ed the incident, and the young mans family was notified shortly eafterward that he had committed suicide.
 The last really good opportunity for the King to save the situation, according to some observers, was given by the opening of parliament. But he read to the legislators a carefully. prepared speech from the throne which omitted any mention of return to liberty, free speech and free press, and summed up the dictatorship by remarking that (Continueo bn Pare Six1