Evening star., 1934-10-10
ALEXANDER'S BODY
SENT TO BELGRADE.
French Statesmen Join
Queen Marie at Bier
of Monarch.
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II was ledIIleQ IleIe JlldI GOpe GluS
had granted the slain King absolution
at pm. yesterday.
Here also today came AleXander's
aunt, the dowager princess Nathalie
of Montenegro, who is the sister of
his mother. She motored to Marseille
from her home in Antibes.
The body of the King was taken
from the prefecture, accompanied by
President Lebrun and a regiment of
infantry carrying flags, while its band
played funeral music.
At the special landing float where
the King had stepped on French soil
just "a hours previously, the body was
placed aboard the French submarine
Nautilus, which Immediately headed
out for the Dubrovnik in the harbor.
The body of the King had been
carried to the water front in a plain
oaken casket trimmed with silver. 1t
rode in hearse over the same route
the King had taken yesterday and
across the stock exchange square
where he was killed.
The authorities had wanted to
avoid retracing the tragic route, but
were forced to go that way since the
other streets on the water front were
too narrow and tortuouS to permit
passage of the hearse.
President Lebrun rode with the
widowed Queen behind the vehicle of
death and he left her only when she
went aboard the destroyer.
The Queen stood on the bridge of
the ship and watched the embark
ment of the casket, the top of which
was left open. 1t was placed on the
afterdeck and flowers were heaped
about it.
Queen Kisses Monarch.
Then the Queen slowly came down
from the bridge and, while the sailors
who lined the rails wept openly. she
bent over and kissed the face of the
dead monarch.
The scene was one of moving
simplicity with its background pic
turesque old Marseille The colorful
uniforms of the French and Yugcslav
officers were lighted by the rays of the
dying sun. The long light of sunset
cast shadows from the destroyer's
shrouds just as the casket was taken
aboard.
The heavy wind of the closing day
swept across the harbor 1t tapped
flags violently, giving a strange over
tone to the funeral music played by
the band.
Prayers IntOned.
A priest of the Greek Catholic
Church intoned prayers and sprinkled
holy water on the casket The buster
ing wind swung the incense burner
and carried the smoke Of incense
across the warship's deck and out to
sea.
Then the royal widow returned to
land and the Dubrovnik started on its
journey.
The Queen started for Paris to join
the King for, though the King is
dead, the King yet lives-the King
now is her son. little Peter, and she
must take him back home to a grief
stricken people.
Alexander Sole Target.
The assassination was one Of the
bloodiest in history. although Kale-
men intended to kill only Alexander.
He used a powerful automatic pis-
tol which fired 10 shots at one pres
sure Of the trigger. When the burst
died away Alexander and Barthou
were mortally wounded; a policeman
who tried to save the King and the
assassin himself were dead.
Kalemen had a bomb in his pocket.
He had no chance to use it.
Two men found near him were ar
rested and reports were circulated
that five suspicious-appearing men
were seen armed, but police insisted
Kalemen apparently acted alone.
While Alexander fell instantly,
Barthou was able to leave the car
Then he tainted in the arms of po-
liceman and died an hour and a
half later.
His life might have been saved, the
surgeon said, had the taxicab carry
ing him to the hospital escaped a
traffic jam. He bled to death from a
severed artery.
The assassin tried to shoot himself
In the mouth. Saber slashes and bull
lets from police beat him to it. He
bore a tattooed deaths head on his
arm with the motto Liberty or
Death" A Yugoslav identified it as
the design of a Macedonian secret
society.
All France Mourns.
The assassination hit French pride
heavily. Not only was it the second
political assassination in the country
In the past two years, but the French
regarded Alexander as a real friend
and a guarantor of peace in the Bal
kans. paul Doumer, predecessor OF
Lebrun as President, was assaSsinated
in 1892.
Among Barthou's fondest dreams
was the one of bringing Italy and
Yugoslavia closer together. 1t was in
preparation for such an attempt that
Alexander's visit here was arranged.
The late foreign minister was sched-
uled to visit Mussolini in late october
or early November.
The assassination of Balkan ruler
20 years after the World War, started
through a similar event, made the
French government frankly anxious
of the consequences.
1t was believed that Kalemen was
not on list of suspects" submitted
by the Yugoslav government before
AleXander's trip In the first tense
tragedy there was fear the killer may
have been Italian or French.
They admitted any spark might
turn the -Yugoslav hostility into
an explosion.
Killer Wore Paris Suit.
Kalemen wore a suit containing
label of a Paris department store
and no traces of his activities in
MarSeille have been found. He was
not registered at any hotel and it
was believed he was sheltered by a
friend here, whose identity is sought.
Alexander was shot three times
when Kalemen broke through police
lines and leaped to the running board
of the royal automobile, shouting
''Vive lie Roll"
Police considered that a contrib
uting cause to the deaths of AIexan-
der and Barthou was the fact that
a horse reared when frightened by
the sudden movement and a shout
from Kalernen