The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-27

heard in Lofdon) Paul fled from the country and Cvetkovitch and Cincar.Markovitch weer arrested.
 In their place arose 8 new gov. ernment. Peter, l7 years old and only a few months away from his 18th birthday when he reaches legal majority was proclaimed king in his own right and the regency which i,,nas existed since his father was slain by Q glinmaS1 on the streets of Marseiile in & tember, 1884, was decreed at an end.
 The premiership was taken by Gen. Richard Dusara- -6iinovlch, lead. CT of Jugoslavias air corps, possibly the most aggressive of the army leaders who opposed dealings with Germany.
 Backing up Dusan- -simovich was 0 strong cabinet that represented every element of Jugoslav national life. It included the two Serb cahi- net ministers who last week quit the government in protest against signing the Axic pact end many of the other members represented the powerful Serb Agrarian party whose leader Milan, 0abrtlovitch left his post as Jugoslav minister to Moscow to hurry back to Belgrade.
 Of equal importance was the feet that the gtrong Croat leader, Vladi- mir MatcheE, vice.prem!er under Cvetkovich, stayed on in the new gove rnlnent. Matchek did not 90 to Vienna for the Axis pact cere. monies and his presence in the govs eynment was thought to guarantee strong Croat support, on important factor since the many Greats have favored close alignment with Ger. many.
 There also are in the cabinet Slovere leaders, Mohannrnedan lead. CTS and representatives of all the mportant Jugoslav iminoritieS which 1t was thought, would make 1t difficult for anyone to utilize nationalistic aspirations to drive a wedge into the government.
 In His z fwn Right
 Boy King Peter II, who went home from asS English school to take the throne of his murdered father. be. came 6 monarch in his own right today when army leaders overthrow the regency and cabinet that bent the knee to NaN Germany two days ago.
 The news seeped out through a censorship which had cut Belgrade of from the world for hours dur. ing the night while the army lead-. CTS act.
 King Peter was in school in Great Britain when on Sept. 6, 1884, his father King Alexander I was assassinated ct Marseilles, France, along with Louis Barthou, French foreign minister. Alexander had been Q friend of France and Britain.
 Dispatches from Belgrade report cd that big demonstrations had been In progress there since dawn.
 According to dispatches, the JugoSlsv regency In Q manifesto to the public said the army and navy had sworn allegiance to the boy king.
 The regents were quoted that they were convinced their resigna- tons were necessary because in this fateful hour only thus can the country be saved"
 Prince Paul, the boy kings uncle, had been chief regent and to all purposes the first executive of the country. His co-regents were pr. Radenko Stankovic and Dr. Ivan Perovic.
 The cabinet was headed by Dra- gisha Cvetkovitch, premier and Alexander Cincar- -Markovitch, for. eign minister, who in Vienna Tues ds.y took their country into the German -Japanese-Italian alliance in the subordinate role which Hum gary, Slovakia, Rumania and Bull garia had previously accepted.
 Would Rule Sept 6th
 King Peter normally would have assumed the throne in his own right on his 18th birthday, Septem- Der 6. But constitutional experts said that under Jugoclav crown statutes 1t would have been pos- sible to make him reigning mon. arch at 16.
 The reported overthrow of the regency and the cabinet came as dispatches from Belgrade reported that demonstrations were spreading throughout Jugoslavia and as the Jugoslav Orthodox church hierarchy was about to meet to protest against the governments action in submitting to Germany. All Bel- grade schools from primary schools up had been closed until next Mon- day. The vice-governor of Croatia, syetozar Ivkovic, and about 30 oth- CT key officials of the Croat autono. nous administration had resigned.
 It has been reported. further, that British mechanical forces had been observed on the Greek side of the "A .1Am1aAA a..