The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-10
FRANCE MOURNS IN
FEAR AND ANXIETY
ASCOR7AcE BEGINS
Thousands Of Spectators Gath
er With Bowed Heads as
Procession Passes
QUEEN MARIE MEETS SON
Barthou and Alexander Express
Dying Wishes for Peace
ful Relations
QUEEN MARIE MEETS SON

Marseilles, France, Oct. l0.-F-
With the pomp Of grief and the
majesty Of death, King Alexander Of
Yugoslavia started back to his home
land Wednesday.
His body was borne through streets
which Tuesday reverberated success
sively to cheers, pistol shots, shrieks
and weeping.
At 1 p. M, exactly "a hours after
he had set foot in France on what
was intended to be q gala visit OF
good will, the assaSsinated king was
taken back to the Yugoslavian de-
stroyer Dubrovnik which brought his
majesty here.
Again Wednesday there were
n:assed thousands Of spectators, but
their silent faces mirrored Europes
anxiety over what the assassination
OF the Yugoslavian king by Croat-
ian on French soil may mean.
France had hoped that Alexander
visit would be a long step toward q
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 lay In state beside Alexan-
der.
Other Deaths Fellows
Together they were shot down q
4:l0 p. m, Tuesday by Petrus Kale-
men, a 35-year old native Of Zagreb
and they died only an hour apart
Kalemen, himself. was mortally In
iured by the police and the crowd.
Other persons were fatally wounded
in the burst of fire from Kalemen's
pocket sub-machine gun and his aux
iliary pistol, and the replying shots
Of the police. Policeman CALI died
Tuesday night and q spectator. Ma
dame Dubrec, q widow, died Wednes-
day.
Fourteen other persons, including
Gen. Alphorse Joseph Georges Of the
French superior war council, were
wounded.
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.
Last Thoughts Of Goodwill
King Alexander's last thoughts were
Of his duty-the task which was his
birthright.
"Preserve Franco YugoSlavian
friendship" he muttered in supreme
effort before he lapsed into coma,
to his friend and foreign minister,
Bogoljub Jevtitch.
Barthou expired as he whispered:
II am so thirsty"
Like the king, however, Barthou
thought Of political consequences as
he died.
The kings consort, Queen Marie,
daughter Of the famous Dowager
Queen Marie Of Rumaniia. reached
her husbands side as he lay in death
in the prefecture Of Marseilles.
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.
President Lebrun and former Pre-
miers Tardieu and Herriot joined the
widow at the prefecture after their
arrival from Paris in q special train
Death masks were made Of King
Alexander and M. Barthou, then the
queen led her official visitors into the
great, high-ceilinged office room
where the two bodies lay side by side.
Queen to Meet Son
Because Of her susceptibility to
seasickness the circumstance that
prevented her from being with the
king when he was assassinated-the
queen was returning to Belgrade by
train as she had come to Marseilles.
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