SERVIAN CONSPIRACY.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 916, 15 June 1903, Page 2

SERVIAN CONSPIRACY.

PROGRESS OF THE ASSASSINS. LONG-PREPARED PLOT. Till.-; oEEEN'S BODY THROWN FROM THE WINDOW. ASSASSINATION DECLARED TO BE PATRIOTISM. By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright.

Received 5. p in., June 11. BELGRADE, June 13. One hundred and tilty army officers headed and carried out the conspirr.ty, hill they represented a far wider movement, including many leading persons of all political parties. A provisional Government was constituted some time ago. The army was won over mainly by the Radical party. 'Several members of the late Servian .Ministry were arrested .ti Belgrade, hut were subsequently released . The new Premier, interviewed, said that, the Cabinet, would resign when ,i King had been elected. Peace now prevails, and will prevail. An autopsy showed that King Alexander received thirty shot wounds. Queen Draga received numerous shot and sabre wounds on the body. After the shooting, her body was (lung out. of the window to convince the soldiers that the deed had been done The crowd cheered the assassins, and (lags were displayed at most of the windows. The army's nominee is expected to he elected. lWanv civilians favor a Iu public, and ot hers Prince Mirko, of Montenegro. Naumoviteh. whom King Alexander shot, is officially described as dying ‘- on the field of honor lor the fatherland.” Mischeti declares that the conspirators' work was a tremendous mi vice to flu fatherland. Prince Karageorgeviteh, interviewed, deplored that the army had resorted to violence. King Alexander s abdication would have sufficed. 11c added : “If called to the throne. I will lie inspirited with Switzerland’s admirable institutions, and favor the absolute liberty of the press. I hope to see Set*via. prosper under a constitution similar to that in force in 1«!»!». It is untrue that 1 am systematically hostile to Austria., Pissiiily, l may have specially sympathy with Russia, inasmuch as I •sent my son to lie trained at the Russian Court,, hoping he would take service there.” VIENNA, June 13.

M. Szell, the. Hungarian Premier, speaking in the Lower House cxptessed horror at Hie deed, lie declared that the consequences would he profound They were incalculable hut until the situation had be-t-cine clearer he could not hazard an opinion. ’ M. Koerber, the Austrian Premier, addressing the Kcielisrath, said that however sad the tragic _ Belpiade events were, every ‘ Servian Government could rely on general sympathy so far as they shaped their policy wiili the peaceful dispositions of Europe.