HIT IN THREE PLACES
AIDE ALSO KILLED
ASSASSINS EXECUTED
SHOT. ON SPOT OF THE CRIME
(Received September 22, 11.50 a.m.)
LONDON, September 21 It is reported from Bucharest that as M. Calinescu's car was approaching a bridge another car drove into it and two other cars drew up. The assailants fired through the windows, hitting M. Calinescu in three places,] including one eye. He died on the way to hospital. M. Caliriescu's aide was also killed and the chauffeur was injured. The assassins then drove to the Bucharest radio station, shot and wounded the doorkeeper, seized the microphone, and fe announced the assassination. There has been constant agitation in Rumania by the Iron Guard since I Germany's invasion of Poland, but the Government suppressed the news of the unrest, fearing international complications. Eight Rumanians, members of the Iron Guard, who are alleged to have been participants in the assassination, were executed by a firing squad on the spot where the crime was committed. The bodies remain in pools of blood, and thousands of onlookers are filing past. Peace and order prevail* throughout Rumania. The new Cabinet passed a resolution reaffirming Rumania's strict : neutrality.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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193HIT IN THREE PLACES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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