RUMANIAN PLOTTERS.
ATTEMPT AT DICTATORSHIP,
RAID LEADS TO FAILURE
Australian and N.Z. I'ress Association. (Received July 9, H. 25 p.m.) BERLIN. July 9.
A plot to kidnap the leaders of the Ilumanian Parliament and to seize the Government offices with the object of replacing the boy King, Michael, with a military dictatorship in the interests of ex-Crown Prince Carol, have been frustrated.
As the result, of a dramatic raid yesterday at the ringleaders' headquarters in Bucharest and other towns 200 rebel officers were ai rested.
General Paul Angelcscu, formerly Min ister of War, instead of becoming Die
tator is now a prisoner in his own house. Xo news of the affair is allowed to be published in Rumania.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 11
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