MANY EXECUTIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 41, 28 November 1940, Page 6

MANY EXECUTIONS.

POLITICALS IN RUMANIA. IRON GUARD PURGE BEGINNING. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. A Bucharest telegram states that the Iron Guard shot dead 64 political prisoners, including M. Argesheanu and M. Marinescu, also the Secret. Service chief (M. Morozow), and M. Ste- , fanescu (former Chief of Police). The executiones are apparently the beginning of a vast Iron Guard Vengeance and purge. Many other notables have been arrested, including M. Gigureau, a former* Minister of Communications, and M. Argetoianu, former leader of the Agrarian Union Party, and General Isalievic, the last chief of King Carol’s military Cabinet. The Berlin News Agency describes M. Argesheanu as a man who ordered deaths of countless innocent legionaries after M. Codreanu’s death in September, 1939. It adds that M. Marinescu was the accomplice of M. Morozow, who controlled the espionage service for King Carol. One general, two majors and one policeman, who allegedly ordered and supervised the shooting of M. Codreanu, were also executed, in addition to 14 policeman who carried out the shooting, and ringleaders who subsequently reported the executions to M. Antonescu and surrendered.

The Rome newspaper “Giornale d’ltalia” stated that the executions, whose instigator is not known, were carried out before M. Codreanu’s tomb was opened.