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EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF ASSASSINATION EUROPE'S PEACE-MAKER REMOVED BY MURDER
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By VERNON BARTLETT
AST year I stood in the library spared to show what he could do
of an ultractive low whitejas peacemaker and one hesitates Villa on a hilltop a few mlies out Ale Belgrade.
to forcenst the results of his death. Some people expect a policy less friendly to France, and others an
The garden was full of flowers and the distant hills reminded me end to firiations with Germany. of the folls of Cumberland. It The Regency may go out of its to conciliate Cronta and wn all very beautiful and lovely, Lway
But then I noticed sentries dutted Slovenes, or It may allow the old here and there in the garden. generals to indulge in the recollected the soldiers guarding polley of repression, the road along which I had Just,
My men helief is that Yugo-
come. thought of the bitter re- Slavin under Prince Paul and his, lations between Yugo-Slavin and] anllengues of the Regency may
Italy and, inside the Triune King-
dom, between Serbs and Croats,
It must be poor fun bring a king.
An alarmingly tall officer with
a clanking sword showed me into
a study and one of the most up- lucky monarchs in Europe tame ta meet me a small man with a large head and large dark eyes magne Bed by his glasses. Üle wore a plain uniform with no decorations On his chest. One felt this king business must be particularly poor fun in his case, for he w949 249 29166 assuming and so serious abong his Job, and the odds agutust tum were so great.
11 father had came to the throne after one of the bloodiest crimes in the distal history of; political assassination, and sume people a visited the sins of the father on the son,
In desire to unite Yougo Slavia at the expenas af þorað patriotismi was admirable since there were soj many foreign inthenees at work 10 destroy his country, but this
bition put him far too much in the hands of renebinaries in Belgrade
who understood, by union, the In Amerien a monument is to he domination by backward Serba afferreted in memory of Mark Twain far more civilised Croats. Aud, dowing the famoos wiites surround. Justly. It was n his fault that d by renoword figures from his part of the principal Allied Powers had works. The picture shows
the model of the monument which bribed Haly to come into the war
will cost, in 11. U.S, $8,000,000. on their side by a weret treaty} which has poisined the relations- between the countries Adriatie over since the Armistice BLOODTHIRSTY TYRANT?
the still become the bridge on Whicle France, Italy and Germany can meet and can agree to reapret the independence of Austria. And the future of Austria is still the vest problem that Europe has
A few hours after I had left This man who was no obviously sincere, patriotic and well-mean- ingat in a cafe in Belgrade listening to a Great who possessed the same qualities and who yet spoke of the now murdered Kingi Alexander as the most brutal and hindthirsty tyrant. The danger! of a Cront rising ennnot be ruled out.
Italy, when once the first shork of horror is pust, might be tempted; to encourage disruptive movementy! which would abolish the hostile strip of territory that now divides
To solve.
Margate's
Gaudy Lamp-Posts
Because of the incessant struggle against the encroaching desert, ships must move very slowly through this narrow suction of the Suez Cansi to avoid causing the collapse of and walia. Trees have been planted in order to prevent sand blowing into the Canal."
CANNIBAL TERROR
HUNTING HUMANS IN CONGO
TRIBESMEN EXECUTED
Khartoum, Sudan, Get, 27. Cannibals are terrorising white! and caloured inhabitants alike in the town of Wamba, in the Belgian Congo, which has many Europeas residents. Their attacks are rang- inst serious concern to the Belgian authorities.
The first intimation the Belgian polier bad of the reappearance of Cannibala in this district was! when the angled bodies of thyer,
tives were found on the, yat-j skirts of the town one morning. The Frces, eyes and chests had apparently been devoured.
It is well known to the authori fies that these are the only parts. of the human boty which then ennnibals will cal.
The police inmediately organis- punitive expedition and rounded up twenty-nine cannina! tribesmen, including their chief.) The cannibals were found guilty! and entered to death. They were:
Wamba all hanged t
threz Fallows,
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-The chief himself made- «- fiery!
Fiumis front parts of Trieste and ALDERMAN TOLD TO Speech to his fellow cannibals on
the forests of Austria
and the granaries of Hungary.
the gallows, urging them not to forget the human body and human
SCHILLER'S MEMORY
PLAY IN HIS YARD.-United Press. 1 doubt, however, whether the danger of disruption is so great na The Transport Minister has a Alderman at Margate in many people believe. Or, at any rival rate, so immediate. I place more Sidney Shen, who claims that his runtiglence in the verdict of one of action in painting six public street the closest foreign observers in lams near his home with gold Belgrade. In his opinion the outer and black stripes had prevented walls of the Yago-Slav house will accidents at a danger ajat.
Unfortunately the aldermen
stand however much the partitions | between the Serbian, Croat and Slovene rooms may be knocked abumi.
The danger to Europe les tous in the possibility that the. Yugo, Slay kingdom will split up than in the possibility that without King) Alexander's restraining hand its soldiers may be too anxious to fight.
THE WAR THREAT.
If Italy were to occupy Austrian territory in the event of lurther! Nazi troubles there. the issue of prace of war would be in Yugo-j Slay hands. A decision also tel send troops into Austria would almost inevitably menn 15211. A lecision to refrain from doing so would preserve peace, but it is doubtful whether any other man would be strong enough to restrain the people in the face of such Italian provocation. And the tragedy of it is that attempts to improve relations between --Italy and Germany, or Italy and France, are likely to be postponed inde- finitely 收性 the result of the Marseilles nuansainations.
Yago-Slavia is obviously in the Mr. John Roosevelt, youngest son key position. King Alexander and of President Roosevelt, who has just Signer Mussolini were fully alive entered Harvard University at Cam- to the danger that a German con- hridge, Man where his brother
trol of Austria, which neither of then wanted, might bring them to blows,
Franklin already, studying.
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On the other hand, Yugo-Slavia the Lighting Committee. feared a German Austria less than an Italian one, and she had re-hester said he was not aware that ceived important commercial con was part of an alderman's duty cessions from Berlin. It was, to paint the public lumps free of therefore, in King Alexander's in charge. The crossing resembled terest to work for an Italo-German eirens. "If Alderman Shen wants understanding by which Austrin to play about with paiņi" might be able to decide her own added, he should confine his acti- future without foreign intervenivities to his own back garden." tion. For, after all, only thalph Mr. Shen apologised to not four of each other induces Italy having obtained the sanction of
and Germany to interfere so much, the Lighting Committee. in Austrian affairs.-
A motion calling on him to ro WHAT WILL FUTURE HOLDT · paint the lamps their original
King Alexander has not been colour was defeated. ·
Although the 175th anniversary, of Friedrich Schiller's birth does not fall until November, German Towns are vying with one another to do the great national dramatist all possible honour. Weimar will hold a Schiller Memorial Week provincial theatres everywhere are producing gala performances of The Robbits' or Wallenstein," there will be special Schltler con- certs in which Beethoven's Ninth his Symphony will be played in honour, and the Schiller THO- for the broadcasting Kramme Stations is a heavy one.
The State Lottery ticket sellers are well received by the house insida in Athens, one of whom is seen here leaning from a window trying to choose a winner.
Tests are being made with planes without tails and with the smallest possible power unite. The stearing is done with the wings only in this odd machine.
In the valley of Murchia in Spain a large-open air theatre is being erected and it has been nOCHIIRTY to move some huge, old cypress. In order to protect the trees during transport the crowns have been “put in eness of lluen.cloth.
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