RUMANIA QUIET

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 13

RUMANIA QUIET

VIRTUAL DICTATORSHIP

"HEARTFELT NAZI RELIEF"

SPREAD OF TROUBLE PREVENTED

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received September 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. Rumania awoke virtually under military dictatorship, serious repercussions being still feared as a result of the assassination of M. Calinescu. The country is quiet. TKere is no immediate indication that the Government is unable to handle the situation. The German wireless professes heartfelt relief that the Government stamped out .the murderers and pre-, vented the spread of trouble, which might have affected the country's' neutrality. It is revealed that nine assassins were blind-folded and shot one by one with the same pistols as were used against M. Calinescu, while crowds looked on. Hundreds of arrests were made, overnight, and many more are expected. The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that a thousand persons are reported to have been executed today as the virtual military dictatorship exacted a heavy blood price for the death of M. Calinescu. The official German news agency states that the Rumanian Government made a clean sweep of the last members of the Iron Guard, executing them throughout Rumania as a reprisal for M. Calinescu's assassination. Order is claimed to have been restored. The, Bucharest correspondent of the British United Press says that at least 113 persons have been executed. The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain recalls that thousands have been in concentration camps for a year as a result ot a decree issued by M. Calinescu. He adds that mass executions are continuing among these people. (Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Friday Night The Rumanian Government has taken severe measures to crush the Iron Guard, the pro-Nazi organisation which is blamed for the murder of M. Calinescu. ■ ' According to one agency, 292 executions have been officially announced, and the actual figure is said to be higher still. Forty-four members of the Iron Guard are said to have been shot in one concentration gamp and 32 in another. Members of the Iron Guard have been interned since last autumn, when the.late M. Calinescu ordered a general round-up. There has been no panic in Rumania, | and the Cabinet declares that the whole of the country is plunged into grief. -■ The body of M.. Calinescu is lying in state in Bucharest, and there will a national funeral on Sunday. Messages of sympathy from foreign Ministers include messages from Mr. Chamberlain and Herr yon Ribbentrop. It is considered in London that the 'execution of M. Calinescu's assassins has probably wiped out the last remnant of the Iron Guard.