Evening star., 1934-10-10
Body of Slain
Ruler Goes to
Homeland.
QUEEN AT BIER
AT MARSEILLE
French Statesmen
Join in Tribute
to Alexander.

majesty of death, King Alexander Of
YugoSlavia started back to his home
land today.
His body was borne through streets
which yesterday reverberated success
sively to cheers, pistol shots. shrieks
and weeping.
At 4 pm, exactly "a hours after he
had set foot in France on what was
intended to be a gala visit of good
will, the assassinated King was taken
back to the Yugoslavian destroyer
Dubrovnik, which brought him here
Again today there were massed
thousands of spectators, but their
silent faces mirrored Europe's anxiety
over what the assassination of the
Yugoslavian King by a Croatisn on
French soil may mean.
Peace Dream Ends.
France had hoped Alexander's visit
would be a long step toward a pact
including Italy and sealing the peace
of the Balkans for years to come.
That was the dream Of Louis Barthou,
foreign minister of France, but all
through the day the dead Barthou
had lain in state beside Alexander.
Together they were shot down at
4:l0 pm. yesterday by Petrus Kale-
men, a 35-year- native of Zagreb,
and they died only an hour apart.
Kalemen himself was mortally in
jured by the police and the crowd.
Two other persons were fatally
wounded in the burst of fire from Ka-
lemen's pocket submachine gun and
his auxiliary pistol. and the replying
shots of the police. Policeman CALI
died last night and a spectator, Nine.
Dubrec, widow, died today.
Fourteen other persons, including
Gen. Alphonse Joseph Georges of the
French superior war council, were
wounded. Gen. Georges, despite the
severity Of his hurts, showed signs of
improvement today and physicians
gave him an even chance for life.
Lebrun at Bier.
President Albert Lebrun of France,
shocked by the tragedy, was here with
many ministers of the cabinet. He
arranged that these dignitaries should
accompany the body of Barthou to
Paris when the funeral train departed
three hours after the Dubrovnik sailed
for Yugoslavia
King Alexander's last thoughts were
of his duty-the task which was his
birthright.
Preserve Franco-Yugoslav friend
ship" he muttered in a supreme effort
before he lapsed into a coma. TO his
friorI M jeta iyYk1
Jevtitch.
Barthou expired as he whispered. 81
am so thirsty"
Like the King. however. Barthou
thought of political consequences as he
died. He inquired as to the Kings
condition while surgeons tried to save
his life with blood TRANSMISSION and
he sighed with relief when those who
tried to save him pain told him Alex
ander lived. He died without knowing
the King had preceded him in death.
Plead for French Amity.
Alexander's dying request of his
foreign minister was reinforced by the
text of speech which he had pre-
pared for a reply to President Lebrun
at a dinner planned in the Elysee
Palace. In that speech he told the
history of his fathers, his own and
his peoples love and admiration for
France and concluded, in what he
would have called one of the most
solemn moments of my life" by say
ing the bonds of Yugoslavia and
France could best be expressed by one
word, gratitude"
The Kings consort, Queen Marie,
daughter of the famous dowager Queen
Marie of Rumania, reached her huS-
bands side as he lay in death in the
prefecture of Marseille.
She told the attentive mourners of
her desires for her husbands burial
She suggested that he should be laid
to rest in the uniform of a simple
enlisted man of the Yugoslavian Army.
But at last other advisers prevailed
and she agreed that her husband
should be buried in the field service
uniform of a general of the Serbian
Army-the army in which he fought
in the World War.
Join Widow.
President Lebrun and former Pre-
miers Tardieu and Herriot joined the
widow at the prefecture after their
arrival from Paris. They drove
through a double line of guards, and
when they arrived President Lebrun
bowed low before the widowed Queen.
With tears streaming down his
cheeks and in low voice he told her
of his own and Frances grief. The
Queen answered him with firm self
control.
Death masks were made of Alex
ander and Barthou, then the Queen
led her official visitors into the great.
high-ceilinged Office room, where the
two bodies lay side by side.
The Queen and Lebrun knelt beside
the bodies, then went to the projects
apartment in the same building, where
they remained until the departure of
the funeral cortege The building con-
stantly was under close guard by a
heavy force of the mounted garde
mobile
Because of her susceptibility to sea-
sicknesS-the circumstance that pre-
vented her from being with the King
when he was assassinated-the Queen
was returning to Belgrade by train, as
she had come to MarSeille.
To Meet Son, New King.
First, however, she goes to Paris
to meet her son, the little King Peter II,
who started there from England, where
he was in school.
None of the public viewed Alexan-
der's body here, for the Queen said