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Show KING SURPRISED IN HIS PALACE BY THE REBELS BELGRADE, June .11. According to the best available information obtaln-1 obtaln-1 able from the mass of contradictions the assassination of the King and Queen. was carried out by members of the Sixth infantry, under the command of Cols. Mlschlch and Machin. The latter is a brother-in-law of the late Queen Draga ' and is Minister of Public Works In the new Cabinet. The soldiers appear to have fought their way into the palace, shooting down the aide-de-camp on duty, CoL Naumovis, although, according to another version, the King shot Naumovis V because he opened the gate to his assailants, thereby creating a suspicion of his ' cOifcilvahce. Some of the other persons killed were surprised in their houses simultaneously with the attack on the palace. The bodies of all the dead will be placed in coffins during the course of the day. 0' The remains of King Alexander wUl probably be burled at the convent of Rakovza, The other bodies will be Interred In the local cemetery. Cannon were fired as a slgnal.for the carnage to begin and the troops surrounded sur-rounded the ministerial residences at the same time as they moved on the palace. pal-ace. . After the drama at the palace officers galloped through the streets of the city shouting out the news that the King had been killed. Queen Draga is said to have sustained numerous wounds. A post-mortem examination was held on the bodies in" the palace at 11 o clock this morning. The local papers embellish their reports of the tragedy with all sorts of statements. According to one of them, the bodies of the King and Queen were placed in shrouds and were lowered from a window of the palace to the wardens, war-dens, whence they, were carried away in a baggage wagon. . ROOSEVELT SHOCKED . AT NEWS OF THE KILLING OF KINO ALEXANDER. HARRISBURG, Pa.. June 11. When President Roosevelt's train passed through' this city the President was informed by a representative of the Associated Press of the assassination of the King and Queen of Servia and was greatly shocked, saying: "That is bad." KING WAS ASKED , ' TO ABDICATE BEFORE ' SLAUGHTER BEGAN BERLIN, June 11. A dispatch from Semlln, Hungary, to the National Zeitung Zei-tung gives an interesting version of the -events at Belgrade. It says: "A party of officers proceeded to the ' palace by previous arrangement with Gen. Ljubaslvkovcs and called upon King Alexander to abdicate in favor of Prince Peter Karageorgevltch. The Kins refused and shot Col. Naumovis. who made the proposal. The other officers thereupon summoned the War Minister, Gen. Pavlovltch, and Tudorovltch, the Minister of the Interior, and shot the King and Queen and Petrovitch, one of the King's alde-de-camps, and other s - loyal officers. The leader of the actual assailants was Lieut.-CoL Mlchlch. who himself murdered the Queen. The latter, lat-ter, together with her brother and sisters, sis-ters, was struck down with an ax. The Queen died Immediately. The King lived a few minutes. "The immediate cause of the revolu- (Continued on page 8.) REVOLUTION OCCURS AT 2 O'CLOCK A. M., WIRES OUR CONSUL. WASHINGTON. June 11. News of the assassination of the King and Queen of Servia and the proclamation of King Peter I Karageorgevltch reached the State depart-ment depart-ment today in a cablegram from United States VIce-Consul General Christian Roegllll at Belgrade. This cablegram Is dated ZInony. an Austrian town six miles acros the border, where It was necessary for Mr. Boegllll to go to gt It off. It fixes the hour of the revolution at 2 o'clock this morning. Mr. Wilson, secretary of legation at Athens, Ath-ens, also cabled the news, saying that the "Minister left for Belgrade Tuesday." S)(Si(S)(S)(S)(S)(S(S(Si(Si(SitS'S, Si KING AHD QUEEN OF SERVIA KILLED (Continued From Page 1.) tlon was the return to Belgrade of Lieut. Lunglevltxa, brother of the Queen, and a suposed candidate for the throne. The surviving Ministers have been arrested. The obsequies of the King and Queen will be held June 14th. A festival lllu-minatlon lllu-minatlon of Belgrade la projected for thla evening." German Attitude Passive. The German Government cannot be said to have taken up any attitude as yet regarding the provisional administration adminis-tration of Servla. Horror was expressed ex-pressed at the Foreign office at the bloody coup d'etat. .The immediate 'feeling is one of antagonism to the new Ministry and there is an Indisposition to make Its path easy. The Foreign office for the present is simply waiting full Information from its legation at Belgrade and is also sounding the other chancellories. The fact that the late King Alexander was not allied to any European reigning reign-ing families Is regarded as simplifying ' the situation. Germany has no special spe-cial political interest In the event In Servia. Intrigue Wag Well Known. That an intrigue looking to the dethronement de-thronement of the late King was on foot had been known to the- German Government for some time and also to the Government of Servla, but no . importance im-portance was attached to the matter. The late King seems to have looked upon the hints of the existence of a plot as having ho special significance. Reports to this effect have been circulated cir-culated in the Austrian and German newspapers and have been cabled to the United States, but as the Balkans are so productive of baseless rumors, those concerning the plot. against the late King of Servia were treated very lightly. . ' REVOLUTION FORMED WEEKS AGO; ANIMOSITY TOWARD BOTH RULERS v VIENNA, June 11. Dispatches from Belgrade say that elnce the late King Alexander's last suspension of the Servian Ser-vian Constitution the army has been animated by hostile feelings toward both the King and Queen. The revolution was planned weeks ago. Secret committees were organized in the country and worked in co-operation with the army. The leaders of the revolution are said to have been the new Ministers of Justice and Finance, respectively, M. Schiokovlcs and M. Vellkovlcs, and the Sixth regiment of infantry, garrisoning Belgrade, was designated to carry out the plot. It was originally Intended that the plot should be executed later, but fears that the new Servian Parliament would settle the question of the succession succes-sion to the throne hastened matters. CoL Naumovcs, the adjutant of the King, was entrusted with the execution of the plans. While on duty at 11 o'clock last night Naumovcs burst In the door leading to the sleeping apartments of the royal couple with a bomb and then entered, accompanied by Mlschlch and a number of junior officers. Previously Pre-viously the. palace guard had been overpowered, over-powered, and Its commander, Capt. Pau-ajowexs, Pau-ajowexs, was killed. Naumovcs presented pre-sented to the King a form of abdication for his signature. The document contained the statement that by marrying a "public prostitute," the King had degraded Servia, and that, therefore, he must himself now abdicate. The King's answer was to draw a revolver re-volver and kill Naumovcs on the spot. .Mlschlch then picked up the document and presented it again to the King who. perceiving his danger, fled with Queen Draga to the palace roof, both being in their night clothes. The officers fol- lowed, continuously firing and ultimately .shot the royal pair. . Maj. Lakua Lazarewics, who had been under the King's displeasure for two years, is said to have fired the shot that actually killed the King. At about 2 o'clock this morning Queen Draga's two brothers were shot at their homes, as well as Premier Markovitch and his brother-in-law, M. Mllkovltz, the Minister of the Interior, M. Tudorivcs and his daughter, and the War Minister, Gen. Pavolltch. |