MILITARY CONSPIRACY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 7 December 1937, Page 9

MILITARY CONSPIRACY.

STORY FROM YUGOSLAVIA. COMIC STRIP INVOLVED. LONDON, Dec. 6. A Mickey Mouse comic strip figures in a remarkable story from Yugoslavia. Mr H. Harrison, Reuter’s correspondent at Belgrade for the past eight years, has been ordered to leave by Wednesday owing to allegedly tendentious reports apparently in connection with a statement that a comic strip appearing in a newspaper had been indefinitely banned. The police state that the strip was banned for two days, as it depicted a Ruritanian revolt in which a boy King's undo was plotting to depose him. The News-Chronicle says well-in-formed circles in Vienna declare- the strip so closely resembled actual conditions that it was considered dangerous. Nevertheless, it was not the boy King’s uncle, but the Deputy-Regent of Yugoslavia, General Tomitch, who was planning a military conspiracy aiming at the removal of the Regent. Prince Paul, the Premier, M. Stliyadinovitch, and a military alliance with Germany. He had the support of five generals commanding military districts, who prepared a manifesto declaring that they were establishing a military dictatorship to keep the country from Italian hands. When the plot was discovered a general and a junior officer were sent.with proofs of the treachery to see General Tomitch, who died as a result of the visit. It was given out that his death was due to suicide.The generals have been suspended.

A message from Belgrade published on November 12 stated that the Deputy-Regent of Yugoslavia, General Tomitch, was found shot in his home, a bullet having lodged near the heart. It was stated that he was depressed by his family troubles.