Evening star., 1934-02-19
State Funeral for Hero
Monarch Will Be Thurs
day and Leopold Will Take
Oath Friday.
BODY TO BE REMOVED
TO ROYAL PALACE TODAY
"All Is Finished" Is Repeated
Utterance of Queen Elizabeth,
Almost Overcome With Grief.
Citizens Eager to Give Testi-
mony of Loyalty.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, February 19.-Belgium
fnourned today her hero King. and
prepared for the coronation of his
sorroWing son.
Albert l, King of the Belgians and
the commander in chief of their army
when, ragged, ill-fed and suffering, 1t
stood off Che forces of Kaiser Wilhelm
during the World War, was killed late
Saturday in a fall while mountain
climbing
1t was his favorite sport, and he
was an expert but bit of frost-bit-
ten rock broke in his hand and he
plunged SO feet to death.
They found him where he had
fallen, 10 hours later. Death must
have been instantaneous. At all events
the 58-year-old King did not suffer.
His skull was fractured.
With all the ponp of royal cere-
mony the state funeral Of Albert l
will be held Thursday Within "a
hours of the obseouies, Crown Prince
Leopold will become, at the age of 80,
the fourth King of the Belgians-Leo-
pold III.
Prince in Switzerland.
Prince Leopold and the princess
were vacationing at Adelboden, Switz-
erland, when the word of the Kings
death reached them. The prince, tired
by a day Of skiing, was sound asleep
when there came a pounding at the
door, urgently summoning to the tele-
phone.
1t was thus, in Switzerland, that the
young prince learned he must prepare
to be King.
He went at once to the quarters of
his consort and broke to her the news.
They started for Brussels Immediately,
arriving here early today.
The crown prince and princess, the
former Princess Astrid of Sweden, %
years old, hurried to the royal castle
at suburban Laeken.
Like Queen Elizabeth, Frustrated by
grief the Prince and Princess re-
manned hidden today in the castle be-
hind the guarded grilled fence, while
q throng milled soberly about outside.
Body to Repose in Palace.
The first important ceremony dur
ing the period Of mourning, which will
continue until after the funeral, will
be removal of the body to the royal
palace in Brussels tonight
The body will be borne on a caisson
between solid walls of war veterans
along the route through the city-war
veterans who remember the great fig
Of iyonIoc fol r1-oo
risked his life almost daily to be
close to his soldiers during the trying
days of the World War.
The body will lie in state at the
palace until Thursday when it will be
taken to the st. Gudele Cathedral.
1nterment will be in the royal crypt
at Laeken.
"All is flnished!"-a phrase breathed
30 low as to be almost inaudible-
was uttered over and over again today
by the distraught Queen Elizabeth as
she mourned the death of the King.
Queen Almost Overcome.
This was revealed by persons close
to the Queen as they sought to COM
fort her. They said she was almost
overcome with grief and was unable
to control her feelings.
Intimates of the royal family de-
elined to give details, however, of the
heart -rending scene which marked
the first meeting of the royal son
and his mother upon Prince Leopold's
arrival from Switzerland last night.
The expressions on their faces told
the tragic story of the moving mo-
ments when mother and son sobbed
out their sorrow in the lonely early
morning hours.
Before they embraced after the
Prince and his Princess had been
taken to the castle, the mother and
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