THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,
1935.
CHANGING THE GUARD
STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATIONS
The ceremony of the relief of the Royal marines from the gard at St. James Palace, London, by the guardsmen on their returo
from war minnoeuvres,
AT MARSEILLES
DRAMATIC TRIAL AT SMALL FRENCH TOWN
LINK WITH TERRORIST SOCIETY
THAT STARTED GREAT WAR Paris, Nov. 5.
The terrorism that was behind Sarajevo and has brought constant upheavals in turbulent central Europe since the war will again hold the attention of the world this week when six of the plotters of King Alexander's assassination are on trial in the little southern town of Aix-en-Provence.
The word Oustachis-dreaded Croatian terrorist society-was scarcely known outside the Balkans until October 9, 1934. On that day, as throngs lined the beflagged.streets of Marseilles, cheering the smiling and gorgeously uniformed King of Jugoslavia, and Louis Barthou, France's aged foreign Minister, a man dashed from the curb, leaped onto the running board of the slowly moving open limousine and pumped bullets into
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their bodies. Almost before the smiles faded from the Spooks Guard lips of Barthou and Alexander the assassin was struck down by sabres, shot by guards and finished by the crowd. Armada Of Gold
This man was a member of the Oustachis named Petrus Kelemen. Three of his accomplices in France were quickly rounded up, and it is they who will be tried for their lives this week at Aix. Locked up in. Italian prison is the big chief of the Croatian sécret. reme leader of the band.
Book That Has Alteredty, Ants Pavelitch, onetime deputy, brains and sup-
The Lives Of The Finns
for
of
for
1920.
RO iron
Italians
and
The last big sortie of Oustachin
"INVISIBLE EYES" IN
.EERIE MANSION
IN & clearing in the Royal Forest of Whittlebury, where join the threb counties of Oxon, Bucks and Northants, the Old House, solitary and sinister, keeps its secret of buried gold.
Old documents show that the treasure is no myth, and there it lies to this day, guarded by the spirit of Sir Richard in all the finery of neck-ruff, slashed hose, sword and dagger.
Sir Richard is to be visited
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he escaped abroad with a comrade No word has come of Pavelitchdays of the Oustachi terror. but
months, but the
after breaking prison ad baffling refuse to extradite him, and it is his pursuers by throwing bombs unlikely that he will ever face at them.
The strangest auxilary of the COLLECTION OF LEGENDS AND BALLADS French justice for the murder of
This king en French soil.
Oustachis was the camp at Janka
where several Beneath the house or in the He is actually on trinh, along with Puszta, Hungary, At the Centenary celebrations of the Finnish National
two others who remain abroad, but hundred men were. systematically surrounding pastures are Span- Epos "Kalevala" on the 28th of February last at Helsinki, even if he is sentenced to death trained in the mechanics of terror-ish dubloons and pieces of eight,
will De only theoreticism-bomb making and throwing, the capital of Finland, the representative of the Chinese it
Part of the treasure, it is re- government, Mr. Tan, Charge d'Affaires to this country, ally, As a matter of fact, this is marksmanship and the like-and part of the treasure which Philip nothing new to Pavelitch, for he whence they went out to Jugoslavia of Spain, sent with his Armada.
sentence of and other countries to carry out
lated, was washed ashore at Re- compared in his address the importance of "Kalevala" to is already under a
the dread orders of Pavelitch. For decades secret political the Finnish people with that of the Learnings of Confu-death in Yugo-Slavia.
It was from there that the as- culvers, Kent. Various people tze to the Chinese people and earned an enthusiastic societies have spread terror in the sassins of Alexander came, as men fought for it, but a doughty applause. Mr. Tan was in his expression a little bit too Balkans. Best known have been had come in 1930 for the first at- knight, Sir Richard, got away polite towards his hosts, of course, in conformity with the the Comitiis of Macedonia, who tempt on the king's life and later with most of the prize and buri- have a bloody history of assassinato, bomb the railroad station at led it in the Royal Forest of solemn character of the gathering. Nevertheless, the tion and outrage behind them. Orick, to blow up the Belgrade-Whittlebury.
Next best known and certainly next Zagreb line, shatter the facade of influence of "Kalevala" after its publication in 1925 has most active have been the Oustachisa Zagreb church, fire almost at
at frontier guards been an immense one in the development of the Finnish of Croatia, and their record is random
already filled with sabotage, bomb-stir ap uneasiness everywhere pos-| culture.
ings and murder although they sible. have been in existence only since The Hungarinus insisted last) What kind of book is then this
year that the camp had long beeni Kalevala," the National Eple of
There is a curious, intangible broken up, but the evidence of its the Finns? It has been compared
link between all these revolutionary having been tolerated, if not open-shortly by the members of a with the National Epou-of-some-
societies of the Balkans, and they ly fostered for years-as-an-tid-to paychical research society. other. European nations, as
have many things in cominon. One creating unrest in Yugo-Slavia, was: Daylight Appearance instance with the Greck "Ilind and
Is the fact that their secrecy is too palent to be considered false. From the old-world garden, with Odyssey," the French "Chanson do
the bound. Generally Roland," the German "Nicualun-
identity of the members is so close before the king's murder was in its air of peaceful tranquillity, detachments they will go to meet him in the gen Lied" and the Scandinavian
ly guarded that except when there 1933, when several
low-ceilinged, oakbeamed house "Eddn." AI the material
is a definite job to be done the trained either in Junka Puszta or "Kalevain," the legcads, poome
men are unknown to each other Italy invaded the province of Lika where even the sceptical say they and songs, which constitute the
and are held together only by their land sought to cause an uprising seem to be watched by invisible "Kalevala" have been present
and absolute obedience among the population. The people eyes. For it is here that Sir gathered
the from mouth of
and fidelity to the chief. They failed to respond, and the rising Richard, except for occasional runesingers of common people in
have one unfailing mark of identity, was suppressed, but the purpose of perambulations in the garden, .is the Finnish and Russian Carelia
skull and crossbones tattooed on the Oustachia was achieved, namely always to be found.
Nor is he particular about the the fostering of unrest and appre- and In North East Esthonia where
hension and fear in high and low time of his visits. The misty the population is of the same
Planned New Empire race. The fathers taught them to
The Oustachis grow out of the places, and keeping in the public form often appears in broad day- called the Fran- mind the feeling that there were light, In. addition to his regular
nocturnal sentry-go. political group their sons, the songs and legends
forces nt work-in from
The owners of the house, Miss going thus as inheritance
kovazy which had questionable suc-diarupting one generation to anothor, of
D. Holland and Mies Dickinson, cess in postwar, restless Yugo-short, to practise terrorism. course, changing in the course of
Slavia. This group was named!
are on the best of terms with him, the terrors for After organising the assassina and he has no centuries as to their form and
after the founder Franko, a pen- contents. From which time the
Germanist Croat. Ostensibly Fran-tion of Alexander Pavelitch went numerous horses and dogs about chief contents of them have their
ko and later the Oustachis pledged to Italy. There, in the midst of the estate. origin is not to be laid down with
their lives to create an Independent the terrific international tension
Even so, the owners do not certainty. They show influences.
Croatia, but actually, according to which followed, amid talk of an
sleep in the mansion, and they from many periods of culture and
many men close to them, including other Sarajevo and of imminent
have built themselves sleeping the pagan time of the Finnish raeg
The belief in the the famous Croatian leader Raditch,war, he was arrested but all pleas
quarters over the stables. boing the chief source of the force of song and magic word they worked for the restoration of for his extradition to France fell
Doubtless, Sir Richard treats was unshakable In this folk. The a new empire comprising Austria, on deaf ears.
them with the courtesy due from songs.
Are the Oustachis dend because
For Miss It
well known Was
to many Kalevala" begins with the crea-Hungary and Croatin. For this;
No one will one warrior to another. scholars and intellectuals of Fin- tion of the world and rolls before reason Raditch stigmatised Franko Paveliteh is in jail?
Although their Holland was a stretcher-bearer in land already hundreds of years our eyes the dramaties of the life and later Favelitch as "foreign venture to say so.
gents." ago that there were
the of the "Kalevala" folk and its own
ranks have been badly shattered Belgium, and was in Ostend when among
Before 1920 Pavelitch, as by the work of French and Jugo-the Germans entered the suburbs. common people RD. enormous way the birth of the founder of richness of poems and legends the Christian religion whom the Franko's successor, was n deputy slay police, Pavelitch remains the Both she and Miss Dickinson were
family Inheritance.
These greatest hero of "Kalevala" was and worked for his obscure cause brains, and it is likely that in afterwards on the Western Front, und elsewhere at this and later took part in the Serbian
retreat, materials were gathered by many forend to. yield leaving to his nay legal means, but when King Hungary
Alexander set up the Jugoslavia moment active lieutenants
No reports by the paychic in- interested people. But at first as tion as inheritance his songs and
dictatorship Pavelitch was driven working busily, reconstructing the Elias Loenroth, the son of a poor wisdom.
myth would convince the local in- village tailor and after his
to cover and the Oustach! society society and preparing for further Vestigators that Sir Richard is a This "Kalevala" has since its
habitants. Scores of them have strenuous atudyings of young publication had a very great in-was born. It was then that they terrorism in the future,
seon him, and seeing is believing. were organised in great secrecy and years #1 district physician, refluence on the modern poetry, the complicated If well concealed 66 dovoted many long years for com- music and pictorial art of the
group began its terrorism. pleting the collection and for Finns. The history of the Finns studying them, the chief items of and their culture was strongly "Kalevala" were at hand. The influenced by the connection of the present "Kalevala" ns to its com country with Sweden. The war of Zagreb paper devoted to the hated!.
સ
ELIAS LOENROTI.
Gave new birth to Finnish culture.
or
enemies.
cominon
their arms.
The first manifestation of their
Extradition Refused
"Dead" Man
existence was a political murder-- Rose From
that of Tony Schlegel, editor of a.
position of form is thus his work. 1808/1809 broke off the centuries cause of a unified Jugoslavia. His Coffin
its proface was signed on the 28th long band between Finland and
In the years that followed there
-nre
Schneidermann, à quiet,fifty- year-old Jew of the strictly orthodox faith. He fell fainting yesterday with a bad heart at- tack. Soon his heart stopped; beating. Doctora examined him, issued a loath certificate.
Burial Had Been Dolayed Burials are forbidden in the Jowish New Year's Day, which ise- Warsaw, Oct. 12:gins at Ove o'clock this afternoon. WHILE the ten traditional 50 it was arranged that Schneider- watchers intoned the manh should be buried carly this Jewish resurrection prayer in a morning before the festival began. house in Warsaw at midnight last night. a "dead" man moved
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of February, 1836, which day the Sweden as a joint state. During were many more murdura.‚There Finns usually celebrate as their the Swedish era the Swedish were bombings and the systematic CAME TO LIFE AS Kalevala Day. It wns printed language had gained a predominureation of unrest over an area PRAYERS FOR HIS SOUL and came to publialty in these ant place in the cultural life of from the Albanian frontier to the weeks one hundred of yours ago. Finland. Although Finland was northern Dalmatian coast, from The collection of folk songs, in 1869 united with the Russian the borders of Hungary to the legends and ballads has been empire as internally autonomous Bulgarian frontier. during the later years completed state, the Finns recognised that
Polico Baffled and published, containing now 30] they would never become Russians. From time to time Alexander's thick volumes, the richest collec- The only way was to start to police laid their hands on Oustachis tion of that kind in the world. develop the real Finnish National · | but nover ON Pavellich, who The poems and legends of culture. As encouragement in this escaped abroad with a few lieu- "Kalevala", reflect the moral ideas development has the "Kalovala” tenants and worked from Hungary of the ancient Finns, their family had an immense importance.. life, their fights with the other The richness of pactical benu- effectiveness and with obscure but
The shock was so great that tribes, their customs and usages ties of "Kalevala" han Induced its very tangible foreign financial sup one of the watchers cried out, began to stir. Israel Schneider
Suddenly the figure in the coffin. -tc. All the nature was full of adorers to translate it into 16
gods and spirits to which the foreign languages. But it still facing the guilloting this week, wan then collapsed-killed by fright mann had risen from the dead. folkpoets sung as to their friends waits Its translator into Chinese. one of those arrested in the early The "dead" man was Israel To-day he has fully recovered...
Italy, and even France with great
port: Pospochil, one of the men
in his coffin, then slowly raised himself and gazed dazedly around him. Bazo
Last night the ten watchers guarded the coffin, and intoned the Jewish prayer, which de- clarea that the dead shall be resurrected at the advent of the Jewish Messiah.
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