Word: dimitriejevitch
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Toying with a pistol, General Alexander Dimitriejevitch sat in his home in Belgrade last week. He had been cashiered as Marshal of the Court for failing to save the life of King Alexander. All the army expected him to commit suicide. While fascinated correspondents waited. General Dimitriejevitch put his pistol away, called rumors that he had already committed suicide ''ridiculous...
Meanwhile the Court scandal of the decade vortexed around General Alexander Dimitriejevitch, Marshal of the Court who accompanied King Alexander to Marseille. "He should have committed suicide since he failed to protect King Alexander's life!" cried officers of the Royal Guard. "Instead of that he returns to take up his post as the guardian of King Peter as though nothing had happened...
Something promptly happened. General Dimitriejevitch was dismissed as Marshal of the Court, pensioned off in disgrace on half...
...also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec To wound: General Alfonse Joseph Georges of France General Alexander Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia Admiral Philippe Berthelot Police Inspector Calestin Galli Policeman Felix Forestier Marius Humbert Laurent Tortero Mme Justine de Mawer and her son Felix Edmond Brooks Dascomb, U. S. newsreel photographer, made a complete record of the assassination while bullets whistled round his ears. Four days later he dropped dead...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...
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