PLOT DISCOVERED
HUNGARIAN DEATH LEGION
RAID ON HEADQUARTERS
(Received October 17, 11.30 a.m.) BUDAPEST, October 16. The police arrested 140 members of the banned Hungarian Death Legion, which, although pro-Nazi, split from the original Nazi Party. The leader and four others fled to Vienna. A search of the headquarters revealed a quantity of hand-grenades and revolvers. A list of 200 names was found, and included M. Hubay and seventeen other members of Parliament among those who had been listed for assassination in connection with a projected coup de etat.
M. Kaloman Hubay is the chief lieutenant of Major Szalasi, leader of the Hungarist group of the Nazi movement in Hungary.
war was fairly generally estimated at from 4000 to 6000 machines. At the end of the World War, according to figures quoted by Hitler in a speech made last April, 15,700 German aeroplanes and 27,700 aeroplane engines were destroyed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 10
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