THE ROYAL TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 64, 22 March 1913, Page 5

THE ROYAL TRAGEDY.

LATE KING OF GREECE.

PARLIAMENTARY SYMPATHY

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, March 21

The House of Commons passed a resolution of sympathy with Greece and Queen Alexandra.

DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. Salonika, March 21. Schinas was shabbily dressed in a blouse, and was waiting at the corner of a side street. He, fired two bullets from an old-fashioned revolver, resembling a horse pistol, which struck the King. Schinas attempted to shoot Colonel Frankoudis, whose revolver missed fire, The King fell on a table outside a shop. The shopkeeper lifted him, and two soldiers running up carried the King in their arms to a hospital in the vicinity. He was unconscious when King Nicholas arrived, and died in ids son’s arms.

The body, wrapped in a green flag, was embalmed, and the officers in the evening carried it on a stretcher to the Palace, King- Nicholas) and the high dignitaries of the State and the clergy following, uncovered..

Schinas is a notorious drunkard and a half-witted degenerate, half Greek and half Slav. He recently delivered socialistic harangues. 1 He lived by begging, and was half starved. He subsisted chiefly on milk. When the examining magistrate asked the reason for the crime, Schinas replied that he had to die soon, anyway, and he wished to die famous. Athens, March 21.

Schinas is a weak-minded inebriate. He is a native of Ceres, and of mixed parentage. He was twice dismissed as a school attendant. He petitioned the King, who referred his petition to the proper quarter, where it was rejected.

SALONIKA IN A FERMENT.

Salonika, March 21

After the murder the town was in a ferment/ the garrison believing that the murderer was, a Tupk. King Nicholas ordered strong patrols to prevent revenge, and informed the soldiers that the assas?ip was a Greek, though he was not'then .aware of the fact. AUSTRALIA’S SYMPATHY.

Sydney, March 21. Lord Denman State Governors have condoled with the Greek Royal,fapyy Alexandra, i ,

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT,

Auckland, March 20

The following telegrams have been reeeived by the Governor /in reference to the assassination, of the King of Greci^f 1 “I am deeply touched by and the message of sympathy which you have sent me on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand. , Please .express ray most sincere thanks to them.-—George R.”

“And I send my gratful thanks to you, your Government, and the people of New Zealand,, for kind sympathy. —Alexandra. i l •

“Further, His Majesty the King commands the observance of Court mourning for 28 days for his late Majesty King George of Greece, but it is His Majesty’s wish that functions arranged in connection with the visit of 11,‘M.S. New Zealand should proceed notwithstanding.” KING GEORGE’S FORTUNE. Copenhagen, March 21. It is reported that King George left four million sterling in investments in London, Paris, and Adenna.

CONTINENTAL CONDOLENCES

Athens, March 21

M. Venizeloy, in the Chamber, paid a warm tribute to King George’s ser-

vices. Prince Constantine has been acclaimed King. World-wide condolences have been received. It has been resolved to erect a national monument to King George. Constantinople, March 21.. The newspapers express abhorrence of the assassination, and pay many tributes to King George.

KING CONSTANTINE’S ADDRESS TO THE ARMY.

Athens, Ma|rch 21

King Constantine, in an address to the army, stigmatised King George’s assassination as an impious outrage. He recalls that the King was devoted to the whole army, with which he was. bound up. “We shall,” he said, “never cease to devote the whole ol our solicitude to the land and sea forces.”

ANARCHIST LEANINGS

(Received 8. 5 a.m.) New York, March 21. The Greek newspaper, Atlantis, publishes a statement from a friend ol Schinas. The latter came to the United States years ago, but was unable to stand heavy work, and returned to Greece. Schinas announced himself as an anarchist, but was not connected with the school of anarchy, which it is reported as existing in Greece.