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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

1984

EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF ASSASSINATION

EUROPE'S PEACE-MAKER REMOVED BY MURDER

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By VERNON BARTLETT

AST year I stood in the Ibrary spared to show what he could do of an attractive low white) as peacemaker and one hesitates villa on a hilltop a few miles out-to forecast the results of his death, alde Belgrade.

Some people expect a policy leas friendly to France, and others att end to flirtations with Germany.

The garden was full of flowers and the distant hills reminded me

of the fella of Cumberland. The Regency may go out of its

to

way concilinte Croats and Slovones, or it may allow the

was all very beautiful and lovely But then I noticed sentries dotted hore and there in the garden. I generals to indulge in the old recollected the soldiers guarding the road along which I had just come. I thought of the bittor, re-

policy of repression.

My own belief is that Yugo- Slavia under Prince Paul and his

Jations between Yugo-Slavia and colleagues of the Regency may

Italy and, inside the Triune King- dom, between Serbs and Cronts.)

It must be poor fun being a king."

An alarmingly tall officer with

a clanking sword showed me into

a study and one of the most un- lucky monarcha in Europe came to muot me a small man with a large, head and large dark cyen magni- fied by his glasses. He wore a plain uniform with nu decorations on his chent. One felt this king business must ho particularly pour] fun in his case, for he was so un- assuming and no serious about his! job, and the odds against him were so great.

the

Ils father had come throne after one of the bloodiest crimes in the dismal history of political saaassination, and some people still visited the sins of the father on the son.

Ils desire to unite Yugo-Slavia j at the expense of local patriotiem! was admirable since there were soj many foreign Influences at work to destroy his country, but this am Ulion put him far too much in the hands of reactionaries in Belgrade

who understood, by union, the In America a monument is to be domination by huckward Serbs of erected in memory of Mark Twain far more elviled Uroats. And, showing the famous writer surround. Instly, it was not his fault hated by renowned figures from his the principal Allied Powers had works. The picture shows a part of bribed Italy to come into the war the model of the monument which on their shle by a secret treaty which has poisoned the relationa between the countries 01 she still become the bridge on which Adriatic ever since the Armistice. BLOODTHIRSTY TYRANT?

A few hours after I had left this man who was no obviously sincere, patriotic and well-mean- ne sat in a cafe in Belgrade listening to a Cront who possessed) the same qualities and who ye!! spoke of the now murdered King Alexander as the most brutal and hlorhirsty tyrant. The danger! of a Crout rising cannot be ruled! ogi.

Italy, when once the first shock of horror is past, might be tempted¦ to uncourage disruptive movements; which would abolish the hostile) atrip of territory that now divides her half-dead ports of Trieste and

Fiume from the forests of Austria and the granaries of Hungary,

will cost, in mit, U.S. $8,000,000,

France, Italy and terminy can independence of meet and can agree to respect the

Austria, And

the future of Austria le still the ravest problem that Europe has

to solve.

Margate's

Gaudy Lamp-Posts

Because of the incessant struggle against the encroaching desert, ships must move very slowly through this narrow action of the Suez Canal to avoid causing the collapse of sand walls. Trees have been planted in order to prevent sand blowing into the Canaİ.

CANNIBAL TERROR

HUNTING HUMANS

IN CONGO

TRIBESMEN EXECUTED

Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 27. Cannibals are terrorising white and coloured inhabitants alike in the town of Wambs, in the Belgian Congo, which has many European residents. Their attacks are caus- ing serious concern to the Belgina. authorities.

The first intimation the Belgin police and of the reappearance of ennnibals in this district Was when the mangled bodies of three. natives were found on the out- skirts of the town one morning, The faces, eyes and chests bac apparently been devoured.

It is well known to the authori- ties that these are the only parts of the human body which these cannibals will eat.

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The police inmediately organis. and punitive expedition rounded up twenty-nine cannibal tribesmen, including their chief. The cannibals were found guilty aud entered to death. They were all hanged at Wainha un three gallows.

The chief himself made a fiery speech to his fellow cannibala on

ALDERMAN TOLD TO the gallowa, urging them not to PLAY IN HIS YARD-United Press.

The Transport Minister has a

I doubt, however, whether the danger of disruption is so great ns many people believe. Or, at any rivat at Margate in Alderman rate, so immediate. place morel Sidney Shen, who claims that his confidence in the verdiet of one of action in palating six public street the closest foreign observers In lamps near his home with gold Belgrade. In his opinion the outer and black stripes and prevented. walls of the Yugo-Slav house will accidents at a danger spot, stant! however much the partitions.

Unfortunately the ildermni between the Serbian, Croat and Slovene rooms

#213 be knocked

about.

The danger to Europe lies less in the possibility that the Yngo- Stay kingdam will split up than in the possibility that without King Alexander's restraining hand its soldiers may be too anxious fight.

to

THE WAR THREAT. If Italy were to occupy Austrian territory in the event of further) Nazi troubles there the issue of pence or war would be In Yugo-" Slav hands. A decision also to send troops into Austria would almost inevitably mean war. A decision 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 auch 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 as the result of the Marseilles assassinatione.

Yugo-Slavin in obviously in the

Mr. John Roosevelt, youngest son

koy position. King Alexander and of President Roosevelt, who has just

Signor Mussolini were fully alive

entered Harvard University at Cam-

to the danger that a German con- bridge, Mass, where his brother

trol of Austria, which neither of

them wanted, might bring them to

blows.

Franklin is alrendy studying.

On the other hand, Yugo-Slavia omitted to obtain permission from

feared a German Austria less than the Lighting Committee.

At the council meeting Mr. T.

an Italian one, and she had re-Lester said he was not aware that ceived important commercial con- it was part of an alderman's duty cessions from Deriin. Jt was, therefore, in King Alexander's in-charge. The crossing resembled a to paint the public lamps free of terest to work for an Italo-German clresa. "If Alderman Shea wants understanding by which Austin to play about with paint," he might be able to decide her own added, "he should confine his acti future without foreign interven-vities to his own back garden." tion. For, after all, only their Mr. Shen apologised for not fear of each other induces Italy having obtained the sanction of and Germany to interiore so much the Lighting Committee, in Austrian affairs,

A motion calling on him to ro WHAT WILL FUTURE HOLD?

Faint the lamps their original King Alexander has not beon colour was defeated:

forget the human body and human

SCHILLER'S MEMORY

Although the 175th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's birth doca not fall until November, German downs 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 Robbers" or "Wallenstein," there will be spécial Schiller con- certs in which Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will be played in his honour, auct the Schiller Bro- Kramme for the broadcasting stations is a heavy one.

The State Lottery ticket sellers neo well received by the four-mald. in Athens, one of whom is seen here'

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