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Show KING PETER IS IN TROUBLE Is "the bloody drama of 1903 about to be repeated in Belgrade? That is a question that all Europe, including Servian people themselves, are asking. ask-ing. For weeks reports have emanated emanat-ed from Belgrade that a conspiracy has been formed among the officers of the army having for its purpose tho v dethronement of King Peter, if nec- W essary, by as violent means as those Jk of the terrible night nine years ago, I ( when King Alexander and Queen Nl Draga were murdered in the palace. King Peter is paying for whatever guilty knowledge he may have had of the regicide plot with uneasy days and sleepless nights. Now in his sixty-eighth year, he is wondering if it was worth while after all, to trade his peace of mind as a private citizen in Switzerland, for the bloody crown of Servia. Through the palace still stalks the restless ghost of Alexander and the king's ears must still resound the echo of the shrieks of Draga. At the foreign office and in the war ministry all knowledge of plots and conspiracies are denied, of course. "It is a sensational newspaper lie," said one official, who was most anxious to leave the impression that the best relations rela-tions existed between Peter and the army and Peter and his people. Bui V . talk in the cafes, converse with officers to whom you have been vouched for r ask any representative of the common Servians, the working people, and one finds little praise for Peter. "Servia wants to become a republic," one army officer said "The army and the people are tired of the dynasty." |
