RIVAL MURDER CLUBS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)

RIVAL MURDER CLUBS.

AMAZING DISCLOSURES.

MACEDONIAN ASSASSINS.

Astounding disclosures of secret warfare between two rival Macedonian murder clubs were made at the three days' trial in Vienna of Boris ProschefT, a Macedonian Autonomist, which ended a few weeks ago. He was sentenced to three and a-half years' penal servitude for attempting to murder Ivanoff and Athsanow, members of a rival Federalist organisation.

An official of tho Jugoslav Legation proved that Proscheff,- in December, 1925, offered his services as political murderer to the Belgrade police, guaranteeing to despatch any Bulgarian the Jugoslavs might desire. He was imprisoned by the Jugoslavs. Ivanoff declared that the rival organisations carried out in ali twenty-six political murders. He gave the total of deaths caused in thirty years' conflict between Macedonian organisations .as 80,000. Proscheff, who went to Vienna with a letter from his organisation instructing him to buy one case of first-class Wares or two cases of second-class—meaning that ho was to assassinate the rival chief qt two members of his organisation—entered his victims' house last December and fired nine shots which, however, only caused wounds.