Evening star., 1934-10-10
Country Quiet
as Borders
Reopen.
REGENTS RULE
FOR BOY KING
Belgrade Bells Toll
as City Learns
of Tragedy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, October 10.
The government moved today to
prevent an uprising in the Creation
district after it had formally given
Yugoslavia a boy King. 11-year-old
Peter II, son of the martyred King
Alexander.
A cabinet proclamation notified the
citizenry that Peter is now King. He
will rule under a regency. The last
will of his father provides that the
boy return to school in England after
the funeral.
Hundreds of Croats fed over the
Austrian border, fearing the a5SaSSi-.
nation of Alexander may result in
repriSals against them.
While the government denied there
was any mobilization of troops, as vas
rumored in foreign countries, it ad-
mitted the greatest precautions were
being taken in Croatia. where feeling
against the government runs high.
Country Is Quiet.
The country remained quiet and
national frontiers have been reopened.
Reinforcements for the gendarmeri,
hurriedly summoned in Belgrade when
news of the Kings death became
known, were withdrawn.
AS Yugoslavia awoke today to the
mournful dirge of tolling bells, the
first intimation majority of the peo-
FOlp had nf ~ thair
siXmonth period of mourning was
proclaimed. All public buildings were
draped, flags were flown at half staff
and schools and places of amusement
were closed.
Messages of sympathy were received
from all parts of the world, including
cables from President Roosevelt and
the Pope.
Assassin Mystery Man.
Meanwhile, authorities said they
had been unsuccessful in all efforts to
determine the identity or origin of
Petrus Kalemen. the man who killed
King Alexander
Yugoslavian, French and Czecho-
slovakian police are working to pene-
trate the veil of mystery which
shrouds the identity of the killer.
One fact, however, seemed certain,
and that was that Kalemen was not
a member of the Kaleman family of
revolutionary fame despite the sim
tlarity of the name.
Yugoslavian authorities haxe To-
Gated all the members of this family.
Many of them are in jail.
Even the tattooing on the aSsas-
sins arm, indicating that he was
member of the "Imro" international
Macedonian Revolutionary OrganiZa-
tom was regarded by Yugoslavian
authorities as a trick to throw them
off the right track as regards Kale-
mems real identity.
Czech Passport Denied.
Investigations at the Czechoslo-
vakian consulate in zagreb, where
th" passport that Kalemsn carried
was supposed to have been issued, re-
veals beyond a doubt that the pass
port never was given out there
1t was also explained that owing
to the recent energetic measures taken
by the Bulgarian government in sup
pressing the Imro the members of
that society now are scattered
throughout Southeastern Europe.
They have no financial backing be-
cause the Bulgarian government con-
fiscated all their money and property.
1t was openly stated here, however,
that a great number of Croatian
emigres are living in Italy and Austria
on financial assistance from Croatlan
emigres throughout the world and
especially in the United States.
1t was said that there was a pos
sibility that the assassin was one of
these Croatian fugitiveS.
Bulgaria AbsOIved.
In any case, whether or not Kale-
men is a member of the Imro, it was
not believed here that Yugoslavia
would hold Bulgaria responsible for
Alexander's assassination, since the
thousands of Macedonian revolution
aries who live outside Bulgaria are
not under the control of the Bulgarian
government.
Both houses of Parliament were
summoned to meet in extraordinary
session tomorrow to take the oath of
allegiance to the boy King, now en-
route home from school in England.
1t was considered of marked signifl-
canoe here that the late Kings will
dated January 5, of this year. was
made only a few weeks after three
Croatians made an attempt upon his
life at zagreb. His assailants later
were sentenced to death.
An oath of loyalty to the boy King
already has been taken by members
of the cabinet, the army and the navy
Since Peter II is a minor, he must
occupy the throne under a regency
A will of Alexander, found after his
death, appointed his cousin, Prince
Paul of Yugoshvia, former minister
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