Marseilles, Oct. 10. "Guard Yugoslavia, The Govern-nation must be worthy of "These inspiring words were the ast uttered by King Alexander 1 before his death here yesterday at the hand of an assassin, whose automatic pistol also ended the career of M. Louis Barthou, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The attack was made by a Croatian merchant at 410 yesterday afternoon, few minutes after the Yugoslavian had arrived here on his first visit to France since the Great War, Tt has long been a grim tradition that the Kings of Serbia never die in their beds, always In exile or at the hand of the assassin.
Just as King Alexander and M. Barthou reached the Place de Bourse in a motor-car in which th were driving together, the Croat, man named Potrus Kalemen, broke from the crowd watching the royal Procession, sprang on the running-bord and, thrusting an. automatic pistol through the window of the machine, emptied its lethal bullets at the occupants.
King Alexander died with a few minutes of beng shot, the bullet piercing his chest near the heart, On the other hand, M. Barthou succumbed Jat. $45. pin, collapsing under an Janmsthetie' while an operation was being performed for the extraction lof the bullet in his stomach.
King Alexander, who had been hit jtnree times, was carried in a dead, [faint to the room of the Prefect of Police in, the Prefecture and desperlate efforts were made to bring him round, but, within a few moments, he expired. The wife of the Protect closed the King's eyes ina scene which was tense with emotion.
The chauffeur who was driving King Alexander's car said that, as the machine entered the Place de Bourse, a stout man broke from the Jerowd and sprang upon the running board. "He fred four or five shots at point-blank range at the King and Int. Barthou. The chauffeur immediate-seized the assassin by the neck, while Colonel Plollet, who was on horseback alongside the royal car, struck the man with his sabre.
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