SITUATION IN SERVIA. Belgrade, May 13.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 369, 18 May 1889, Page 3

SITUATION IN SERVIA. Belgrade, May 13.

Quekn Natalie has for the present abandoned her intention to visit her son on the condition that the ex-King Milan absents himself from Servia. The Viennacorrespondentof the "Times," writing on March 14th, refers to the absence of a parent to exercise guardianship over the youthful King of Servia. He points out that King Alexander, who is but twelve years old, and who has no father or mother to watch over him, is exposed to all the enterprises of the Pretender, Prince Peter Karageorgevitch. The father of thib Prince was convicted before a Hungarian Court of Justice of having been accessory to the assassination of Prince Michael, the uncle of King Milan. In these Eastern European States political struggles are tierce, and human lives are not rated highly. In the case of King Alexander, who apparently remains the last descendant of the Obrenovitch dynasty, the one security against murder or kidnapping would be that an heir should be upstanding, in order that the boy's removal should entail no political consequences. But, according to the "JPrem- I denblatt, 11 Count Kalnoky has left the boy Kingabsolutely defenceless. Whatever may be the rights and wrongs of King Milan's quarrels with his wife, all right-minded people in Europe will revolt at the idea that, the boy King should be left without a parent to exercise guardianship , over him., From the moment when his father deserted him his mother became his natural guardian. It is said that the boy is now crying .constantly for his mother, and, meanwhile, official telegrams are declaring that Queen Natalie cannot be allowed to return to Servia. A bhrill of horror would run through every honest n>an and woman in the world if it were heard that this child King, now left to the care of professional politicians, had been suddenly assassinated. This is no extravagant fear. , King Milan's own words to me.^when he pointed out that no ruler of Balkan State had yet died ( quietly in his bed, sufficiently showed his keen sense of the .dangers which surrounded,himself. It is only a pity that he should nob perceive that similar, perils encompass his son.