THE SERVIAN REVOLUTION.
MORE GRUESOME DETAILS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Belgrade, June 18.
Press correspondents who have inspected the Palace have obtained sickening details of the great crime The officers who accompanied them were laughing and joking over the affair, and eagerly pointed out the bullet holes and dynamite marks, boasting that they tired through and under the bed, couch, aud tables in efforts to find the victims.
Mirrors wero shattered, ceilings pierced, and pictures ruined. The King aud Queen were slain iu a small dressing room adjoining their bedroom. Broad blood stains are visible.
Tho Emperor of Austria assured King Peter of his sympathy, support, aud friendship in tho task of raising Servia from the severe fall sustained in the eyes of the civilised world through a heinous aud universally reprobated crime. London, June IS.
Mr Balfour, the Premier, states that Great Britain has considered whether she should mark her reprobation of the orime that had disgraced Belgrade by withdrawing Sir G. Bonham, the British Minister. He would, howevor, remain to watch events without being accredited to the new King, until furtuer information of the cireumstaucos attending the .new government’s advent to power were to hand.
RUSSIA AND THE ASSASSINS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh Received 10.29 p.m., Juno 19 Belgrade, Juno 19.
It is understood that the conspirators sounded Russia and Austria before Peter was eioctod. It is stated here that some officers, organisers of the tragedy, will be tried by their Peers. The ostoutatious recantation made by Metropolitan, who was a friend and supporter of King Alexaudor, has jeopardised his own position, and he is expected to retire.
St. Petersburg, June 19.
Russia newspapers denounce tho crime as an indelible stain on the Servian army and church. The Official Messenger, St. Petersburg, expresses a confident hope that Peter will vigorously punish the traitorous regicides.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 921, 20 June 1903, Page 2
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