RUMANIAN SITUATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 11

RUMANIAN SITUATION.

CAROL AND THE THRONE. MARIE MEETS BRATIANQ. POLITICAL MANOEUVRING. NEWS STILL CONFLICTING. (Received October 27, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Oct. 26. Messages which are filtering through to London from Vienna and Paris give rather contradictory versions of the position in Rumania. There is no confirmation of the report that martial law has been established or that Bucharest is virtually in a state of siege, though it is admitted that the public buildings are guarded.

Some ground exists for a report that the Dowager Queen Marie attended a meeting of the Regency Council, at which a brisk discussion took place with the Prime Minister, M. Bratiano, arising oat of their reported conflict of views about the treatment of the ex-Crown Prince Carol. The council is believed to contemplate a broad coalition, which is regarded as hopeless in view of the hostility of the Liberals and the peasants. The latter are supporters of CaroL Some people are of the opinion that this course has been advocated in the hope of deposing M. Bratiano. A message from Paris says Carol has expressed grief at the arrest of M. Manoilescu, the former Under-Secretary of Finance. He interprets it as indicating that the Rumanian Government fears the movement favourable to Carol, because M. Manoilescu conveyed letters repeating Carol's announcement of July 22 that he was a candidate for the throne. That statement appeared in the Paris newspaper Le Matin, but its republication in Rumania was forbidden.