PUBLIC INDIGNATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 5

PUBLIC INDIGNATION

DISASTER IN RUMANIA

BEATING ABOUT THRONE

LONDON. June 13,

The Bucharest correspondent of the News/Chronicle says that the indignation caused by the collapse of a grandstand at Bucharest last Monday, while King Carol and the Chechoslovakian Minister, Dr. E. Bencs, were reviewing Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, has risen to fury which is beating about tho throne itself.

Relatives have already been officially informed of the deaths of 3CS persons, but it is positively known that no fewer than 420 wore killed bosides 93 others with broken backs and 380 with amputated legs and arms. The public have known the terrible results of tho disaster from the beginning, but the newspapers are allowed to print only the official communique stating that only throe persons were killed.

Tho suppression of the facts is interpreted as an attempt to shield those responsible for the catastrophe which, it is asserted, was caused by criminal negligence by poor work, and the use of defective material.

Many of those killed belonged to distinguished families.

One paper says:—''This happened because the King is surrounded by liars and robbers."

Another says: "Rumania is a hind without responsible Government, but nobody expects any member of the Government to be punished and, since the grandstand builders were Jews, they will probably be made tho scapegoats. ''