STRICKEN QUEEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 9

STRICKEN QUEEN

AN EXPECTANT MOTHER

AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY

(Received October 12, 1 p.m.)

PAEIS, October 11,

When they were re-united in the strongly guarded Yugoslav Legation the boy King learned from his stricken mother's lips the details of his father's assassination, tha implications of which he cannot even yet fully realise. Queen Marie, after a loving embrace, controlled her emotion, though on the verge of a breakdown, and told the story plainly and simply in the presence of the Archduke Anton and his .wife Princess Ileana, sister of the widowed Queen. After that Princess Marina and Prince Nicholas visited them. Anxiety prevails regarding the health of Queen Marie, who is expected to.bear a child early in the New Year. Queen Marie and Peter left for Belgrade at 9.15 p.m. Madame Yolande.Fan-is, the fifth victim of the assassination, died in. ho.spital at Marseilles after embracing her nino-months-old baby. M. St. Paul, the investigating Magistrate, reports that King Alexander lived for forty-five minutes after he was shot. Major Houvaix, a Colonial Army doctor, responding to the call of a Prefecture official, was the first to attend him. tie found one bullet had entered the right side and ploughed upwards in the chest. The other perforated the liver. The heart's action was imperceptible. An adrenalin injection proved vain. The assassin's weapon, though technically an automatic pistol, was really a machine-gun capable of 280 shots a minute. Kalemcn used a belt of ten cartridges, firing them one by one in order to take aim. A similar weapon was found at his feet. BARTHOU LIES IN STATE. M. Barthou lies in state at the Quai il'Orsay, from which he so long directed France's foreign policy. The coffin, draped in the Tricolour, lies on a catafalque, ■ while crepe shrouds the room, with its gilded decorations and baroque furniture. Wreaths lie at his feet from tho widowed Queen, President Lebrun, and M. Yevtitch, the Yugoslav Ambassador, and the French Foreign Office. An enormous circle of crepe-wreathed laurel hangs on the wall. Official mourners, including tlio■ deceased's brother, M. Leon Barthou,, after spending a few moments in meditation, withdrew to permit the admission of an endless procession of the public of all classes from bomedftllcd officers and blackrobed priests, to sobbing women. A dreary drizzle falls without, arid blackcoated officials watch in pairs within. M. SARRATJT RESIGNS. Following severe criticism of the Administration in connection with ineffectual precautions before the .assassination, M.Sarraut has resigned. M. Berthoin, Director of the Suretc National, and M. Jouhannaux, prefect of the Department of Bouches dv Rhone, whose wife closed the dying King's eyes, have been suspended.