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三拜雅號十月十英港香 WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER

10,

1934.

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ASSASSIN SHOOTS DOWN YUGO-SLAVIAN KING

Spain To

Outlaw

Socialists

ROYALISTS CHEER

LERROUX

REBEL AZANA ARRESTED

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Madrid, Oct. 9.

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The Cortes to-day approved a bill re-establishing the death penalty for terroristic use of fire.

arms.

Later the Cortes adjourned for a week.to give the Government a free hand in restoring order.. United Prens.

Madrid, Ort. 9.

The Cortes session opened this afternoon, surrounded by a cordon of heavily armed troops and police.

Monarchiste thunderously cheer. ed Premier Lerroux, whose newly selected Cabinet precipitated the -revolution-which still simmers in

various parts of the country.

M.

BARTHOU, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER, CROWDS

KILLED AT MONARCH'S SIDE

A recent picture of the late M. Barthou.

M. BARTHOU'S CAREER

There were no Left Wing de FATHER OF NEW puties present. It is understood

that they were excluded by order of the Premier because the Govern- ment intends to outinw the Socialist party.

Premier Lerroux

emphasised, during an address, the Govern ment's determination to maintain order and unity in the motherland.

It is understood that a low will be passed imposing the death penalty for those found carrying weapons.

Spasmodic rioting continues in the provinces but it is officially

| announced that the general situa- tlan throughout Spain has im- proved.Beuter.

AZANA CAUGHT.

Barcelona, Oct. 9. The former Premier of Spain, Senor Azana, who hemled the revolt at Catalonia has finally

een arreated.

ALLIANCES

MARSEILLES POLICE FIRE INTO CROWD

MURDERER CUT DOWN BY SABRES OF GUARDS: FOUR OTHERS KILLED IN CONFUSION

M. BARTHOU'S GALLANT ATTEMPT TO SAVE KING'S LIFE

MARSEILLES, OCT. 9.

KING ALEXANDER OF YUGO-SLAVIA HAS BEEN ASSASSINAT- ED IN MARSEILLES.

TWO SHOTS FROM THE GUN OF THE REGICIDE MORTALLY WOUNDED M. LOUIS BARTHOU, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER, WHO RODE AT THE KING'S SIDE.

EUROPE IS SHOCKED BY THE TRAGEDY AND IN AMERICA THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THIS AND THE AFFAIR AT SARAVEJO IN 1914, WHICH CAUSED WORLD WAR, HAS CAUSED SOME APPREHENSIVENESS.

The assassin was a Yugo-Slavian exile, and was assisted by at least one aċ- complice. The real murderer was killed by police sa bres and his companion was arrested.

Beside the King and M. Barthou, four others were killed. They are General staff; Count Alexander George, a French officer attached to King Alexander's Dimitrie Jevitch, Court Marshal; and the King's Serbian Military Aide. One police- man was also slain.

M. Louis Barthou, who was born in 1862, entered the Chamber of Deputies at the age of 27 years and obtained Cabinet rank five On the fall of the years later. Briand Ministry in 1913, he be- came Premier and carried through

M. Barthou, mortally wounded himself, attempted to shield the King and the law imposing three years' mili- 2

His Government chauffeur and King's officers threw themselves in the way of the bullets, but too late. tary service.

was, however. defeated. some months later. For a few months during the Great War, he waa Foreign Minister in the Painleve Government. -

He held several Cabinet posts later and failed to form a Cabinet! in 1930, after which he held no utlee until M. Doumergue became Premier in February of this year. when Barthou beeame Forolgu! Minister.

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STORY OF ATTACK

POLICE FIRE ON CROWD

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18.30 am) Marseilles, Oct. 9.

He will appear before a special discussions in March, he rejected Judge shortly on

unnamed the British plan, and his later date.-Reuter.

PILGRIMS

Besides King Alexander and M. visits to Poland, Yugo-Slavia,

Barthou, four others were killed Romania and other countries

followed friendly to France in Eastern and the confusion which Southern Europe appeared to in- the attack on the royal car..

The assassination was carried diente that Franco Intended to rely

out in much the same manner as in future

alliances.

40-year-old Petras Keleman,

on

GATHERING Latterly he had been especially that at Sarajevo.

EUCHARISTIC CONFERENCE

LIPSTICK BAN ANNOUNCED

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prominent in the Eastern Locarno. proposal, which Germany declined Yugo-Slavian exile, was the mur- derer. He was exiled because of to support.

his opposition to King Alexander's M. Barthou was a historian, dictatorship some years ago and authority on Victor Hugo, П passionate bibllophile, and a mem-Was a member of a secret society pledged to kill the King, due to ber of the French Academy,

This alleged destruction

Croatian "autonomy.

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DECISIONS

Chiengo, Oct. 9.

of the

The murderer leaped on the runi- ning-board of the car immediately after it left the Quai de Belges, where King Alexander landed from a Yugo-Slavian warship with the greatest pomp. The harbour was filled with warships and the streets lined with troops and bands playing military marches. OTHERS KILLED,

RESCUE EFFORT

The late King Alexander of Yugo- Stavia.

RIOT AT WORLD SERIES

ST. LOUIS WINS OVER DETROIT

PLAYERS FIGHT ON FIELD

MILLION-DOLLAR GATE RECEIPT

Detroit, Oct. 9.

St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series to-day, when they clinched the last vital game against Detroit Tigers, with a record-break- ing shut-out.

The match was made memorable by a variety of incidente A riot in the sixth inning, the dismissal from the field of Joe Medwiek of the Cardinals, and the fact that for the first time since 1031 the total receipts

for the Serios amounted to over one million dollars, all contributed towards an engagement which will EARLY ATTEMPT down in history.

YUGO-SLAVIA'S SOLDIER KING

ON LIFE

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The match was a triumph for "Dizzy" Dean, now the most The late King Alexander of famous pitcher in the world. He was born in tanned the Tiger hitters for a Yugo-Slavin, who December, 1888, was the second record shut-out, the Cardinals son of the former King Peter of winning by the widest margin in .. Serbia. On the renunciation of the World Series history. rights to the Throne by Crown SEVEN RUNS IN THIRD INNINGS. Prince George in 1909, Alexander

was proclaimed Crown Prince.

The Cardinals, who totalled

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He became Regent In 1914, owing eloven runs from seventeen hits to his father's Illness, and con- and an error, collected seven of tinued as such until the latter's those runs in the third bnings, death-in:1921, when he ascended and-mado-certain-thereby- of-the- the Throne as King of the Serba, World Series. Cronts and Slovenes.

The Tigers called on practically FAILS

After taking the oath, an un-their entire pitching team, includ successful attempt on his life by ng "Schoolboy" Rowe, but the bombing was made as he left the Cardinals treated them with equal GALLANTRY OF Parliament building.

disrespect. Auker, Rowe, Hog. sett, Bridges, Marberry and Following a period of internal crowder formed the unsuccessful CHAUFFEUR

political discord, King Alexander| battery. London, Oct, 9. in 1929 issued a proclamation sus- It is learned here that King pending the Constitution, dis- The Tigers scored half a dozen Alexander and M. Barthou were solving Parliament and setting up hits, and lured the Cardinal in- fielders to commit three errors. riding together in a motor cara dictatorship. when the assassin sprong at them.

Thereafter, the Cardinals remained In 1931, however, finding the watertight,

and Dean The King was struck by several

simply bullets and blood streamed out of strain of active dictatorship too demoralised the Tigers with some his mouth and chest. He fell back great, he gave the country a new of the most brilliant pitching ever

Constitution and named it the seen. swooning.

One bullet fractured M. Bar-Kingdom of Yugo-Slavin. thou's left arm and the second He married Princess Marie.. entered his stomach.

second daughter of King Ferdin- The attack was made at 4.10 p.m. and and Queen Marie of Rumania and police had the greatest in 1922. difficulty in dealing with the jexcited crowds, who tried to lynch

the assallant.'

Queen Marle (of: Yugo-Slavin, 10

UTMOST CONFUSION. tragically bereaved by the assassins-

The utmost confusion provail-; tion of her husband, is here seened. The assassin, meanwhile,

with the little Crown Prince Peter. tried to shoot himself with the one shot laft in his revolver. He put bullet breaking the arm and plerc was snatched away.

the weapon to his mouth, but it

The police throw a close guard ing the abdomen.

The police opened fire as soon as about the man, but the crowd tore

He served many years in the army of his country and was popu- larly known as "the Soldier King."

MARKETS UPSET IN EUROPE

CAPITAL FLIGHT :

STARTLING DIVERSION.

A startling diversion occurred in the sixth inning, when Joo Med- wick, the St. Louls butter, was ordered from the game by Com- missioner Landis.

The crowd in the uncovered seats broke into rioting, causing a delay in the game of 17 minutes.

The outbreak followed an incident

between Medwick and Marvin Owen, who was on third base.

Medwick appeared to lash out at Owen with his spiked boots, and the pair fell into" "n~elinch.""""They wore separated by other players, while the crowd threw bottles. sausages, buns and fruit into the "arena", refusing to allow play to resume while Medwick remained on the field.

Commissioner: Landis' action in

FORESEEN the assassin had made his attack, its way through, laid hands on with an accomplice. The police him, fought off the police and

New York, Oct. 9. bullets wounded twenty, Including hauled him into the Placo Pre- three women spectators, who are in fecture. There, beaten into semi- The Wall Street Journal reports: a"serious" condition.

consciousness, the man was shot.Stocks were unsettled, due to the The infuriated crowd over-ran The others dead are the French-

: · CHAUFFEUR'S STORY.

asansainations of King Alexander a pitch of religious fervour pre- The claim that the New Deal

of Yugo-Slavia and M. Barthou, the ousting Modwick from the game is The heroic ceding the opening of the thirty- had saved the United States from man, General George, attached to the police lines, crushing them

effort of entourage; against the automobiles of the pro- King

the French Foreign Minister, which unprecedented in the history of the Alexander's second Eucharistic Conference rovolution was made. to-day by Dr. Count Alexander Dimitrie Jevitch, cession, and injuring Include chauffeur of the King's car was Wall Street are interpreting World Series.

watched by Donald R. Richberg. President Count Arant, and the King's Ser- ing the assassin's accomplice.

hundreds. He was bearishly. Traders sold, turning Eight steamships, carrying 4,000 Roosevelt's chief policy adviser, in blan Military aide. One police-

King Alexander, meanwhile, sitting directly in front of the the early rise into a decling, but For the first time since 1931, the pilgrims, are converging on this speech delivered here.,

had slumped to the floor of the King.

the markets steadied somewhat at total receipts for the Series reached clty. There, are additional thou IIe declared that had the man was also killed.

As the car entered the Place the close, because no real pressure the million dollar mark-Reuter. Among the critically wounded car without a word, bleeding pro- Bourse, a stout man broke from developed. sands coming from the interior, Government, yielded to "destrucas Admiral Berthelot, the Mari-fusely from the mouth. roughly 90,000 in all.

tive political clamours for immedi-i

M. Barthou, despite his mortal the crowd and sprang on the run- wounds, The Congress is surrounded with ate balancing of the budget," the time Perfect of Toulon.

endeavoured to shield ning board of the motor. Ho

European traders dumped French which will matorinily ald the an nura of devotion rather than country would have-been-plunged. Keleman fired at the King from the King, with whom he shared red four or five shots at point francs and bought atorling. It is American-markets.

harely an arm's length and on the tonneau of the car. with a carnival atmosphere. The into a national disaster.

foared that the foreign exchange. have warned the

Thanks to the constructive mien thued firing until killed by police

Mounted Republican Guards

The chauffeur throw himself markets will continue to be upant In the bonds market, European ainst the use of Hipstick, or stres sich hath Peired to revive sabros...

swung their sabres and cleared a backwards and tried to shield the to-morrow.

issues were unsettled and the re- private businesses, Federal relief

mainder of the bonds were narrow- KILLED BY POLICE.

path to the car. It was they who King, at the same time grabbing

Many nuthorities on Wall Street jy Irregular. slew the murderer. They made a the assailant by the throat. The chauffeur of the King's car

"I Immediately seized him," he hold that, inasmuch as these as- courageously swung with his was to ether to the re-sald, "while the Colonel sitting anasinations occurred on friendly

of the Perfect of Police. fast causing the assassin to

King Alexander died at 4.15 p.m.with the King struck the man with soil, plus the fact that the assassin fall backwards and some of Three canon of Diphtheria with this shots to go wild, one of them

and M. Barthou at 5.45, p.m. the hla sabre, It was no URCS--Yugo Slavian, the outrager SKILL.

Router. death (ono imported), one case of

operating table of the Hotel de Typhuld, and 60 deaths from Tuber-striking General George and an

Dieu during a blood transfusion. Royal Artillery Headquarters notify culoria, were reported to the local other hitting the Serbian aide.

The police announce that there

London, Oct. 9. that gun practice in to be carried out health authorities last week. On

King Alexander was struck twice were two known daanssins, one of It has long been a grim tradi- from Lyceman in the direction of Fo Monday two cases of Diphtheria and Tau Mun Pass between 9.30 am, and one case of Meningitis were also re-near the heart and twice in the whom is dead and the other in tion that the Kings of Serbia, tho 3 p.m. on Friday..

(Continued on Page 7.) Jarm. M. Barthqu was hit once, the custody.United Press.

women

rouge.

The Congress Committee has this winter should be far less circularised the country saying than last year, he said.—Reuter, that Paris fashions are unneces- sary and recommending ankle- length skirts-United Press.

ported.

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blank range.

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GRIM TRADITION.

Stocks on the Curb Exchange were downward.

not have repercussions such as if healthy technical position in spite ~Wheat prices word up on a they had occurred in. Italy. Some of the carller downward flurry, duo believed that the balance of 'power'"

in the Balkan States will be upset, to the news of the assassinations of

Par Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, perhaps causing a flight of Eure King Alexander and M. Barthou pean capital to the United States,