EFFECT IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 9

EFFECT IN FRANCE

POLITICS AND POLICE

CABINET RECONSTRUCTION

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LONDON, October 12,

The "News-Chronicle's" Paris correspondent says that the reconstruction

of the Government necessitated by M. Barthou's death and M. Sarraut's resignation as Minister of the Interior, will be even more difficult than when the National Ministry was formed.

The "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says that it is announced in the lobbies that M. Doumergue will resign immediately after M. Barthou's funeral on October 12 in order to form a new Cabinet, excluding M. Sarraut and M. 'Cheron, Minister of Justice.

The French police are making strenuous efforts to trace Kalemen's movements. Two men believed to be accomplices have been arrested,at Annemasse. One revealed that if the attack in Marseilles had failed the assassination would have been reattempted at Paris.

The passports of the men, who bad tickets to Evian and admitted that they spoke only Croatian, were issued at Trieste and bore tho names Ladislas Benes and Jaroslav Novak. They indicated that they left Como on September 26 and entered Switzerland at Chiasso.

The pair are believed to be members of a vast Terrorist organisation. Both possessed money and wore new suits, from which tho identification marks had been removed. Benes bought a purse whero Kalemen bought his suit. They admit that the passports are false, also coming into contact with Kalemon at Paris. Both were taken to Paris in custody.

The films of the assassination are grim and terrifying in their realism. One film shows a close-up of King Alexander dying on the floor of the motorcar, obtained by a camera-man thrusting the lens of the camera through the car window. Some of the films run for four minutes. As a whole they show that little protection was afforded the King. The police were unable to control the crowd and obviously lost their Heads after the tragedy and thus helped to provoke the riot which followed the shooting. M. Barthou opened the door of the motor-car after the shots, stepped out, and showed a business man blood pouring from his wrist. M. Barthou was

led to the pavement, where a policeman helped him iutd a taxicab. A doctor discovered that a bullet had shattered his wrist and pierced the humeral artery. Death occurred in hospital in the- manner already described. :

The Serajevo correspondent of the British United Press says that disturbances broke out last night throughout, the city. Rioters attacked all houses not displaying black crepe- for King Alexander and also attacked the Catholic cathedral and churches because black flags were not displayed. A bomb exrjloded at the Post Office,- demolishing the interior and wounding one official.