ANTI-DELBOS CONSPIRACY

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 December 1937, Page 7

ANTI-DELBOS CONSPIRACY

ARRESTED HUNGARIAN

INVOLVED IN FORMER CRIME

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LONDON, December 12.

The Lille correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says, that the police take the most serious view. of the I plot against M. Delbos, which in many respects appears to be drafted on similar lines to the assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia in 1934. A Hungarian named Kalman Budai was arrested at Valenciennes. The police believe that the attempt was! to have been carried out during M. Dalbos’s visit to Prague. The Valenciennes police took possession of a secret code addressed to Budai from a terrorist organisation, and also letters, the decoding of which revealed the plot. It is understood that the man arrested at Prague is a one-legged former French Foreign Legionnaire, who is alleged to have admitted the authorship of some of the cipher letters. It is believed that he has a grievance against the French Government about a pension. Budai has been charged with “association with wrongdoers in connection with a plot to'murder M. Delbos at Bucharest or Prague.” He was arrested in October, 1934, in connection with the murder of King Alexander, but no definite evidence was brought against him. He wasi then expelled from France. It is underisfood that the seized letters revealed that M. Lebeau, Governor of Algeria, was also marked down by the gang as a, victim. i , “If. you have sufficient food (which is interpreted to mean funds) I will go after Delbos straight away v ” was a phrase in a letter addressed .to Budai by the former legionnaire, named Havel-Abdel.Kader, which the police have now deciphered. - The letter asked whether M. Delbos should be attacked in Prague or Budapest, and insisted that M. Lebeau should be brought down in order to establish Mohammedanism.

Budai told the examining Magistrate at Valenciennes that he was arrested on November 6. Accordingly, he was not aware of M. Delbos’’S movements and he had been unable to communicate with the terrorist organisation. The plot is attributed to the Oustachis, a notorious band of Macedonian terrorists;' ROUMANIA’S FRIENDSHIP. VIENNA, December 12. M. Delbos arrived at the Jugoslavian frontier from Roumania. According to the Bucharest correspondent of “The Times” M. Victor Antonescu (Roumanian Foreign Minister) arid M. Delbos, examined the international situation, particularly as it affects Central Europe. They discovered a perfect identity of views, and intend to develop FrancoRoumanian co-operation, particularly in economic and cultural fields.

BELGRADE’S ENTHUSIASM. (Recd. December 13, 11 a.m.) BELGRADE, December 12. M. Delbos was greeted with wild 1 scenes of enthusiasm. Cheering crowds marched from the station to the Foreign Office, where trouble began, when the crowds shouting “Down with Fascism,” broke the police cordon. Someone fired two shots, and the police charged. Two people were killed, and many were injured.

JUGOSLAVIA AND ITALY

MILAN,. December 11.

Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch (Prime Minister of Jugoslavia) issued a (statement through the newspaper “Pop'olo d’ltalia”: “Let the world know that it cannot longer count on disagreement between Italy and Jugoslavia, which have begun to write a new page of their relationships.”