THE NEAR EAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 2

THE NEAR EAST.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) ROUMANIAN CRISIS. LONDON, Oct. 29. The Daily Express's Vienna correspondent states that martial law prevails throughout Roumania. A number of garrisons have been disarmed and confined to barracks to prevent a mutiny. Three aeroplanes, containing political refugees front Roumania airived at Sulestimsa, Jugo-Slavia. Spasmodic revolts in Bessarabia have been suppressed with severity, scores being killed and many arrested. A British United Press message front Vienna states that the Roumanian situation is becoming worse every hour. The Government has forbidden a meeting of the Peasant Party, called for November Ist. The leader. Maniu, insists that the Convention will meet. M. Brat ilia has replied ordering the military to he in readiness to arrest ns revolutionaries all who are attending the conferences.

THEFT OF PAPERS. PARTS, Oct. 29. The police are inquiring into a mysterious theft of papers from Carol’s villa at Nouillv. Carol’s valet, a Roumanian, states that he was standing outside the cinema when a woman invited him to lunch at a restaurant, and paid the hill. He had not the slightest recollection of what had happened after that until he woke next morning with a headache. Returning to the villa he found some of his own letters as well as Carols’ were missing, although jowellery and money were untouched. Two days later the valet’s letters were returned to the letter box, except one in which flic names of Carol’s supporters were mentioned.