ASSASSIN GANG

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 7

ASSASSIN GANG

THE MARSEILLES OUTRAGE UNRAVELLING THE SKEIN ACCOMPLICE CONFESSES SIRL CONSPIRATORS (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Oet. I. - *, 11 arm.) BELGRADE, Oct. 13. Further information from the Zagreb police alleges that Novak, who has eight aliases, with numerous accomplices, incluiling an ex-deputy named Pavelitch, all members of a secret organisation, plotted to kill, King Alexander in 1929. They mined the railway bridges over which the- King would pass with dynamite. Two conspirators were executed and' 16 others were sentenced to terms aggregating 115 years imprisonment. Novak escaped and was sentenced to death in absentia with four others who were associated in the plot against the Kings and murdered .the manager of., a newspaper It is also alleged-that Banes confessed that he belonged to Pavelitch’s terrorist organistion, and that lie attended the Tftrikapousta camp, in Hungary with Novak, where, with 30 others,'they were taught to become dead shots. Bones sayl he was accompanied to France by a mysterious conspirator, nicknamed M. le Docifceur, who provided the clothes. The police are now searching for le Docteur. It is ascertained that a girl conspirator, Marie Voudrueh, probably witnessed the assassinations

Kraemer, another alleged accomplice, has been. traced to Avignon, where he has disappeared. > Armed guards between Fontainebleau and Courtenay, who were searching for Chany, signalled a motor car to stop. It contained a woman about 30 and a man about'2o. Neither were able to produce identification papers. The guards mounted the. running board and ordered the man to drive to Um» police station, whereupon the occupants drew revolvers and shot themselves dead. Benes' real name is lvp.n Raich. Cross-examined all night, lie broke down and confessed to being an accessory to the assassination. He gave a list of his accomplices, and details and names of the terrorists, whose leaders live in Milan. The organisation taught him to use machine guns. Benes, alias Raich, and actually Ivan Rajitch, was charged with complicity in the assassination. Novak, alias Pospisel and actually Pospichil, is similarly charged. TWO MEN CHARGED A girl in Aix-en-Provence is believed to have supplied- the Mauser pistol with which Kingi Alexander and M. Barthou were killed. The police discovered that Kalemen and his companions were in touch with her during their brief stay. She was beautifully dressed and departed six hours before the crime. The police have taken finger prints found in her room. Kalemcn’s name appears in the list of Ctoat' terrorists believed to be inmates of Yankapousta camp on the Hungarian border, a complaint against which Jugoslavia handed to the League of Nations on April 26. M. Barthou was instrumental in persuading the Hungarian delegate to urge the Government to open an inquiry into the camp, which Jugoslavians declared was receiving official Hungarian support. When the League discussed the camp, the Hungarian delegate complained that there had been shooting across the frontier, hut the Jugo-Slavian representative retorted: “If we fired, it was because just across the frontier was a bandits’ lair.”

The whole Hungarian press indignantly denies that the regicides were trained in Hungary. One newspaper admits that several Crotian exiles were refugees in Hungary, but says there are many more elsewhere, notably in Paris, where % well-known refugee recently published an attack on King Alexander.

REACTION IN FRANCE CHANGES IN THE CABINET M. BARTHOU’S FUNERAL (Received October 15, 10 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 13. M. Cherort, who was recently much criticised, has spontaneously resigned the Ministry of Justice in order to facilitate tfie reconstruction of the Cabinet. M. Doumergue has appointed M. Laval * oreigni Minister, M. Rollin Minister oi the Colonies, and M, Marchandeau Minister of the Interior, in succession to M. bariaut, whose letter of resignation says tiiat his conscience is clear, but that as chief of the department he is responsible, even if he bad done his duty. Nation wide mourning marked the funeral of M. Barthou. A vast reverent nuwd thronged the Esplanade des Inviiiitles, when the coffin, covered with the Tricolor, was borne on a gun carriage, which is an honor hitherto accorded omy to Presidents among civilians, from tile Foreign Office, where it had lain in state. The cortege, which was a mile long, included M. Lebrun, the President, and members of the Cabinet, with M. Sarraut walking separately, and representatives of 50 nations in colorful diplomatic uniforms, deputies, scarletrobed judges, green and gold uniformed academicians, and military, naval and air force chiefs.

A party of Rumanian peasants in onal dress carried some Rumanian pnrth, which was eventually sprinkled on the grave. When the procession reached the space before the statute of Gallieni, the coffin was placed under a catafalque, before which burned the Flame of Remembrance, from which source incense was ascending. M. Doumergue mounted the black and silver dais and delivered an eloquent orat.on. He emphasised that M. Earthen's every act was dominated hv passionate love for his country. ■He praised VI. Bnrthou’s many services to France, including forcing the Chamber to accept tbfe.2 years’ military service in 1913, which was a factor in saving the country in wartime. He also paid a tribute to' M. Barthou's work for peace, on which he was engaged when he was killed beside his wise and chivalrous friend who was visiting France for the same purpose. M. Doumergue also paid a tribute to King Alexander in similar terms. The one-armed General Gouraud, Governor of Paris, limping from war wounds, ifd the march past. • A service was held in the Chapel des Invalided, beneath the tattered regimental colors. M. Barthou was buried in the same grave as his wife and his VLverr-old son, who was killed in wartime ill Alsace. The King was represented at the hiirral by the British Ambassador in Pr*”is, Sir George Clark. Sir John Simon, v'm arrived ip Paris, by air to attend tho funeral, called on the French Prime M mister to offer his personal condolences on the death of M. Barthou,