Reports carried in the New York Evening Journal today describing Petrus Kalemen, slayer of King Alexander I of Yugo-Slavia and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, as a Jew, were denied here.
Kalemen, it was officially stated, was a member of the IMRO, revolutionary Macedonian organization, which not only bars Jews from membership but has frequently adopted a most hostile stand toward them.
Tattooed on Kalemen’s arm were the skull and crossbones of the IMRO insignia as well as the initials of the organization’s name.
What their fate will be in the future with King Alexander’s
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