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No: 14929
State of Emergency Follows Assassination of Premier RUMANIA STARTS "PURGE" OF IRON GUARDS: SIX EXECUTED
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
BUCHAREST, SEPT. 22 (UP). THE
"UNITED PRESS" CORRESPONDENT WAS PREMIER
AN EYE-WITNESS OF THE EXECUTION
OF THE SIX NAZI ASSASSINS OF MAS
CALINESCU.
THE SIX MEN WERE LINED UP AGAINST THE ARMY TRUCK WHICH BROUGHT THEM TO THE SCENE OF THEIR CRIME.
At 10.45 p.m. they were shot through the heads, in view of an enormous crowd which gathered to witness the executions and to demonstrate against the men.
One of the six men executed for the assassination was L. G. Schmidt, son of the owner of Rumania's largest dye firm and one of the richest men în Rumania.
WHOLESALE ROUND-UP
The Government has rushed a thousand cavalrymen to the capital, and a wholesale round-up of members of the Iron Guard is now under way.
King Carol has appointed General Georges Argeshanu, who was formerly Minister for War and is now Commander of the Bucharest Army Corp, as Prime Minister.
M. G. Marienscu becomes Minister for the Interior, The and General Ilcus becomes Minister for War. remainder of the Cabinet is unchanged.
The Government has issued a statement, saying that the assassination was undoubtedly the work of the Iron Guards.
STATE OF EMERGENCY
LONDON, Sept. 22 (Reuter).-A State of Emer- gency has been declared throughout Rumania, and the police are arresting suspected members of the Iron Guards.
;
All important buildings in Bucharest are heavily
you'll know
it by
its teeth-
FORT
DEATH RAINS ON WARSAW
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHE
LONDON, Sept. 22 | (UP). German artil- lery is now unleashing
ASSASSINATED COLONY'S its full horror on stric-
DROVE TO SEE KING
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”
BUCHAREST, Sept. 21 (UP).-Eleven bullets from the guns of assassins, believed to be Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), have claimed the life of Rumania's strong man and Prime Minister, M. Armand Calinescu.
POLAND
FRANCE
SPAIN
RUMANIA
JUGOSLAVIA
BULGARIA
U.S.S.R.
IN THE map above you will see what Germany wants before she will be satisfied in Eastern Europe. Just before the war Goebbels declared that the Kelch wanted to re-conquer all that belonged to her in history. -The-shaded area in the map.shows, that paris of France, Italy, Hungary, Yogo-Slavia and Rumania remain to be conquered. Apart from Europe, Germany In 1914 owned colonial territory in Africa, New Guinea, and is- lads in the Pacifle.
RICHTHOFEN KILLED
guarded and motorists and pedestrians are being IN AERIAL COMBAT?
searched for arms.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" A. Rumanian Government communique declares that
PARIS, Sept. 21 (UP)-Baron von Richthofen, son of the Iron Guard members were responsible for the murder. famous German war ace, is reported to have been killed when It describes how M. Calinescu was ambushed in the street his machine crashed in an air raid. and struck by 14 bullets.
The younger Baron's obituary
Of the eight men arrested, two have committet is stated to have been published suicide.
On Wednesday and Thursday the Rumanian police were busy arresting Germans in Rumania who were said to have plotted a revolt if German troops reached the Polish-Rumanian frontier.
in Leipzig newspapers, says the Peace Rumours Zurich correspondent of "Le Soir"
Nchthofer was the only son of the
war. He was responsible for the loss of over 80 British and French planes. The Baron was killed on April 21,
over the Somme aréa fine wen- ther.
greatest German nce of the 1014-10
Instructions were found near the Polish frontier to 1018, when his circus was tempted German residents in Rumania.
Meanwhile the Nazi radio in Berlin has broadcast an allega- tion that the assassination of M. Calinescu was the work of Polish and British agenta.
New Premior
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
HITLER GOES
TO GDYNIA
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Ridiculed
China Will Accept
Only Fair Torms
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
CHUNGKING, Sept. 21 (UP). The honour of shooting down the The Chinese Minister for famous Bler is still much disputed, Foreign Affairs,
Mr. Wang but the evidence indientes that it
DARKEST TWENTY MINUTES
ken Warsaw.
Bombardment of the city was continuous until noon to-day, when Nazi war planes joined in the terrory bombing the capital from the air.
Simultaneously, German infantry and tanks have launched new attacks on the
A. H. S. Steele-Perkins, Director western part of the city, but
AT 9.16 o'clock to-night the finger of Wing Commander
of Air Rald Precautions, will touch a switch and 15 scream- Ing syrens will announce to the M. Calinescu was shot Colony of Hongkong that dead at 2.16 p.m. as he was "enemy raiders" are at its door. motoring through the capital en
route to the Palace for an audience with
King Carol.
..
When this signal sounds, to- night's blackout, which will bo the most comprehensive and ex- tended yet carried out in the Colony, will reach its most in- tense stage.
or obscured within three minutes
have been repulsed.
Another dramatic broadcast to the world was made to-day. from Warsaw Radio by M. Starzynski, the Lord Mayor.
CIVILIANS DIE
Many civilians had been killed, he declared, as a result of the incessant rain of bombs and shells, on the heart of the city.
"Our finest buildings are In ruins.
"Among them are the Boral Palace and National MuSULIER.
"As a sign of Soviet-Naal friends. slap," ML. Barsynski said ironically, "the German planes have also bombed the Soviet Embassy."
Diplomats Marooned Negotiations are now proceeding between the German High Command and the diplomatic corps in Warsaw, with
The assassination was
For 20 minutes complete gloom will carried out by six young descend on the Colony, pierced only men, believed to be members momentarily by Verey lights dropped four "calding” observation from of the prohibited Iron planes. Guard (Nazi) organisation. Wartimo Atmosphere
All Hongkong will live in a grim M. Calinescu, like King wartime atmosphere from sunset, for Carol, was strongly pro- no light that cannot be extinguished French and pro-British and must make its appearance after that hour. When the syrens shrick their drastically anti-Nazi.
warning all road traffic must cease; Early reports of the outrage will pull to the roadside and switch cars, buses, everything but trams, show that the Prime Minister, of all lights. Only at 9.35 may they who is concurrently Minister for creep cautiously away again, but the Interior and National De. under shaded lighting. fence, was driving through the
4,000 Men In Exorcises city when the path of his car Though private traffic must cease was blocked by a large motor during the climactic 20 minutes, the streets will be busy with essential truck.
service vehicles hurrying to their As soon as the car stopped the as- exercise appointments. Approxi- spasins opened the door and fired the mately 4,000 A.R.P. workers will be shots at point blank range.
involved in these exercises, which | will-be-staged in about 30 places.on-This-jalter-hospitaf-haa-been-
the island and in Kowloon.
bombed repeatedly," he charged. the because now is the time to practice Because of this urgent true and
"Cultural" Weapons ( seeking
FELL INTO COMA
The Premier was hit twice in right side of the chest, and once
shelter Indoors, residents the right eye. (M. Callneseu had are especially asked to keep off the lost his left-eye during childhood). streets to-night. The authorities He fell to the floor of the car, would be unhappy to encounter any bleeding copiously. Although not other than the simulated casual- killed instantly, AL Calinescu was ties of the Boy Scouts during the in a coma when assistance arrived exercises. and died en route to hospital.
.
Extension To Shipping
The most notable feature of to- It is believed that an aide-de-camp, night's blackout is that, for the first who was sitting behind the Premier, to the harbour will be included in was also killed. The chauffeur col-Its scope. To make a complete lapsed,
blackout of the harbour possible the After firing eleven shots, the assos-port will be closed from 8 p.m. to sins jumped into a walting motor 1.45 p.m. car and raced to the Bucharest Radio From sunset until 0.15 ships in the
allowed to harbour will be station, where they met several other navigation lights and such lights as
conspiratorż.
Captured Radio Station
use
even
can be quickly extinguished, but
warning Dound, when the navigation lights must be doused. With drawn revolvers, the conspira-At 0.36 p.m. navigation, but under tors rushed into the studio, over navigation lights only, may be re- powered the announcing staff and sumed. Ferries will not run between shouted a message
into the micro- and 9.40 p.m. phone that M. Calinescu had been: killed,
At this time the war in the air will commence, for searchlights will begin their pursult of the "raiding" obser- Before the gang could say too vation planes, until then allowed a match, Rumanlan guards arrived free hand. and overpowered them. Seven of the group were arrested, the ro- mainder making good their escape.
Stamped Out Nazis
M. Calinescu was entrusted by
belongs to Australian Lewis gunners Chung-hui, to-day emphatically on the ground. Claims have been denied the rumours of peace made, however, on behalf of negotiations between China and King Carol with the task of forming Canadian airman whom Richthofen Japan. was chasing, and also on behalf of a squadron of Comels.
The official British
war
not
a Government in 1938 and was asked
Frequency Of Bag Snatching
+
In Four Daya
THE frequency of bug anatch-
vlew to evacuating the diplomats and their families.
Several members of the Turkish and Soviet embassies" ara still marooned in the stricken city..
The Lord Mayor charged in a later broadcast that Nazi planes had bomb... ed four hospitals to-day, including one owned by the International Red Cross Society.
"I hope all the civilised world will hear my message, in order to show the type of cultural weapons being used by the Germans," the Mayor concluded.
He told listeners that the food situation might soon become serious Only a few four mills existed in.
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LATEST
U.S. Won't See Allies Lose
Says Noted Visitor
To Hongkong
"AMERICA is not" golog to B00 |Britain and France defeated' in this
war even if it costs its every dollar? and every man," declared the famous: statistician, Mr. Roger Ward Babson, the US. Government's war time Director of Information in a stirring address given to Hongkong business=" men in the Hongkong Hotel_to-day.
Mr. Babson, who is hend of my
name, with offices in 26 American. cities, is a well known publicist-on? US. business. He is passing through Hongkong in an American liner after a visit to Manila. MW
Always Won Last Battle
DANZIG, Sept. 21, (UP) Hitler,
to stamp out the terrorist Iron Guard, Eleven Cases Reported statistical organisation bearing his who inspected the
"China is not prepared to accepta violent Nazi and anti-Semille force. Westerplatte this morning, re-
records any peace overtures which aro
This lalter task he carried out with viowed the crew of the German give the honour to the Australian based on fair terms for all countries great energy. Codreanu, the Iron
the Far East," concerned in
he Guard leader, planned to march on Richthofen's circus was undoubted declared. BERLIN, Sept. 21 (UF) The gunboat, Schleswig Holstein, Lewis gunners.
the capital, overthrow the King anding incidents in Kowloon was alleial New-Agency's Bucharest cor- which was tied up at the 1y broken up by the Camels, which
murder important ometals. But mentioned by Inspector W. H. "We will continue our resistance Calinescu struck first. He arrested Nolloth to Mr. Q. A. A. Mac respondent has confirmed the report Westerplatto wharf.
claimed four victims in the dog-dght.
Afteen until a just and durable peace is pas-Codreanu and hundreds of his Nazi fadyen at Kowloon Magistracy Carol has appointed
Circu that King
Afterwards, he toured Gdynia in The
consisted of
he added, pointing out that followers Codreanu received ten General Argeshanu as Premier. Ma review of the troops who partiel- machines, and is still part of the sible," Mirienescu has been appoluted Minis-pated in the capture of the city, German Air Force.
such a peace could presumably be years Imprisonment. Subsequently to-day, when Leung Chuen-kong nchieved through a conference of the [the Iron Guard leader and h 26, was charged with the theft visited the harbour and called at ter of the Interior,
signatories of the Nine Power Pact followers attempted to escape and of a purse from Chan Sap-sam, The new Cabinet has passed a re- Oxhoeft, where he met Herr Gooring,
be-were shot.
21-year-old woman. solution affirming that Rumania will who is making a similar tour:
with whose interests Japan is coming in increasingly sharp condict maintain strict neutrality.
in the Far East.
Phone Service Broken OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, Sept. 21 (UP)The long distance telephone exchange reported
Bucharest had been "completely broken."
The official German News Agency, for the first time, refers to Gdynia as Golenhaften,
NAZIS BUY OIL
DUKE AT STAFF HEADQUARTERS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPĤD' (UP). PARIS, Sept. 22
"Chiria will not concludo peace] with Japan, no matter what happens, even if all foreign help Is cut out," the Foreign Minister asserted,
day.
Effect On Dollar
the last European crisis I had com { "When I was in England, during
versations with Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Winston Churchini and Mrs Anthony Eden, MSAAR
"I naked them then what... Dritain could do to help the Czechs' and the Calinescu's drastic measures
Leung was arrested by, Mr. X. W. ̈| Poles in the event of war. They, told against the Iron Glosed have been Lim, teacher of La Salle College, really resented in Germany, and after a long chase through several ho has been in daily danger of | streets.
ammasination.
-The theft occurred at Poplar Street, Shamalulpo, as Chan left a
Mbaker's shop with purchases.
"Router" Version at 4.30 paz., that connections with FROM RUMANIA Major General the Duke of
PARIS, Sept. 21, (Router). SHANGHAI Sept. 22 (Reuter)Calinescu was returning home by BUCHAREST, Sept. 22 (Reuter). Windsor has been attached to the
to French General Staff as Co-The dollar weakened suddenly to-ear at the time. The Nazi oconomie mission
His car was blocked by a cart, and "This was largely the result of re- Rumania has ordered 1,500 trucks to Ordination Officer for the British tako Numanian oll to Gonnany, ni Army Ambyll,
ports from Tokyo and Chungking analier car drove into it.
that, rumoura regarding Then two other cars drove up, ons The reason why the sea routo
were completey!, un on each side, and a group of young
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Roma Cut Off SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
ROME, Sept. 31 (UP)--Telephone communications with Rumania have been interrupted.
not used is because. It has been cut As such, the Duko will not declaring
enter the front lines.
by the British navy. «
peace talks founded.
Inspector Nolloth sald that not less than 11 cases of snatching had been reported in four days.
Was Loung
pentenced to four months hard labour.
Mr. Lim was congratulated by Mr. Macfadyen for apprehending defen- dant,
me that their policy would be to encircle Germany by blockado, rub her foreign trade and -- walt ~ until Internal conditions forced a change of Government instead of planning spectacular battles," he said, hey "Mr. Chamberlain told me that it war camo riot to be discouragod, but
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