ROUMANIAN UNREST

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7

ROUMANIAN UNREST

EXILED PRINCE. PLOT ON BEHALF OF CAROL. MANIFESTO TO HAVE BEEN BROADCAST. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, May 7. Bucharest messages state that the meeting of the Peasants’ Party at Alba Julia passed off orderly.. After resolutions had been carried,, the delegates dispersed, the peasants returning to their homes. The leaders of the Peasants’ Party deny the rumoured attempt to march upon Bucharest. Ten thousand soldiers and police were near Alba Julia during the meeting, but were discreetly kept in the background by agreement between the Government and Peasant leaders.

While 667 delegates were holding the conference at the National Theatre, a vast gathering of peasants in the People’s Square passed a resolution calling on Cabinet to resign immediately and permit M. Manui, the leader of the Peasant Party, to form a Peasant Government. The resolution asserted that the Peasant Party was Monarchist. After priests on the platform had administered communion, all present raised their right hands and swore to conduct the fight against an illegal Government to the death, adding that henceforth at every church service they would “pray to God to deliver us and grant freedom to our land.” There were many indications at the meeting of the popularity of the boy King Michael. The Daily Express states that Carol is the centre of a plot to seize his son’s throne.

British aeroplanes were actually chartered in order that a manifesto slhould be red 1 throughput Roumania announcing Carol’s readiness to take the throne, but the plan miscarried. Wihle the aeroplanes were waiting at Croydon the British authorities forbade the. departure of the machines.

DISTURBING' POSSI BILITIES. The Carol intended to broadcast is as follows: “Th*e> ■ Roumanians through falsehood and incompetence are the laughing stock of the world.. The moment has, come to alter this. The regime of falsehood and intrigue must disappear. The elections must be free and the army kept apart from politics. Foreign capital must. be encouraged and effective help given the peasants by mean*? of laud and the provision of seeds and machinery.” The manifesto concludes: “I wish to return to my child and make him a worthy successor of the dynasty.. The Daily Express in an editorial, protests against Carol’s activities. The paper states: “The Balkans are at source of ever-present trouble, but the matter of the Roumanian throne takes on a different complexion when the exiled Prince hatches a plot in England which may have a touch of comic opera, but nevertheless, carries the possibility of developing into something more disturbing. The fact that two aeroplanes chartered on behalt ot Carol have been prevented leaving Britain happily shows that the authorities are alive to the breach of the laws of hospitality.” ~ , r . The Daily Chronicle states that five police are guarding Oakhurst Court, where Carol is staying . . It is believed that throe Roumanian spies attempted to enter the house secretly on. Saturday.