Profound Regret In Guatemala

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 15

Profound Regret In Guatemala

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) GUATEMALA CITY, April 6. The Government of Guatemala last night issued an official bulletin in which it expressed its “profound condolences” on the assassination of the West German Ambassador in Guatemala, Count Karl Von Spreti.

A bulletin issued by the Guatemalan Army’s Public Relations Department said: “With profound regret we carry out the painful duty of informing the people that today the cultured and noble Count Karl Von Spreti, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Government of Guatemala, was vilely assassinated. “The body of the dead man was found at Kilometre 17 of th? road that leads to the town of San Pedro Ayapuc.

“The kidnappers, who seized the Ambassador on March 31, committed this execrable crime in a bloody challenge to the nobility of human feelings. “This is the death of a man useful to humanity and the passing away of a diplomat who has always fulfilled his duties trying to bring closer together friendly countries to his own.”

“The Army’s Public Relations Office, in carrying out this painful duty, presents its heartfelt condolences to the honourable family of the Count Von Spreti, to the honourable residents of the German colony in this country, to the people of Guatemala, and «to the people of the German Federal Republic, and to the world at large for the double loss which this death signifies.