PLANS UPSET

Southland Times, Issue 20487, 15 May 1928, Page 5

PLANS UPSET

CAROL’S MANIFESTO FEAR OF INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS EXTRAORDINARY STORY DISCLOSED (United Press Assn—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.55 pan.) London, May 14. The Daily Express reveals an extraordinary scheme to distribute Prince Carol’s manifesto in Rumania through the confession of Mr Maurice Lewis, who with Mr Dudley Heathcote, a Hungarian publicist, Captain Lemesuriere and a fourth confederate arranged the plan. Lewis says that on May 4 Heathcote suggested an air trip to Rumania in order to drop the manifestos during the Peasant Party’s meeting at Albajulia, M. Jonescu supplying the funds. It was most difficult to print the manifesto in London in the Rumanian language. Then the Imperial Airways cancelled the order for two of their airplanes. Moreover, Heathcote, Lemesuriere and Lewis knew they were watched, but filled two trunks with leaflets and gave them to a fourth man with instructions to take them to Brussels from which others proposed to fly to Vienna, then to Budapest. The fourth man with the manifestos failed to reach Brussels. The other three, however, flew to Budapest where the manifestos were re-printed from the copy of the leaflets taken to an unnamed Balkan State which harbours many enthusiastic supporters of Prince Carol in order that they might be smuggled into Rumania. A famous war ace, who was the hero of 50 battles, here suggested that the aeroplane should make a swift dash into Rumania with the manifestos, but the scheme was abandoned when it was evident that a Balkan war was likely to be the consequence. Finally Heathcote arranged for motor cars and pack mules to' be loaded with the manifestos, but the latest news from Vienna is that Heathcote abandoned the whole scheme owing to the fear of international complications.—Australian Press Association. DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND. RUMANIAN STORM CLEARS. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, May 13. Prince Carol’s cold is better. He remained indoors under a police guard at a mansion at Godstone. It is believed that he will obey instructions to leave England to-mor-row. Paris, the Riviera and Belgium are mentioned as possible destinations. The Daily Express’ Bucharest correspondent states that calm has followed the storm in Rumania. The Peasants Party is not planning further demonstrations against the Government and declares that Prince Carol’s actions have harmed them. They say: “We would be unwise to be associated with this extremely capricious young man. He might have achieved something if he had appeared dramatically at the Peasants Congress and led the march on Bucharest. As he did not he lost the greatest opportunity of his lifetime.”—Australian Press Association. MUST LEAVE ENGLAND. London, May 13. “Prince Carol must leave England by Monday evening otherwise I shall have tn : consider the matter further.” Thus said Sir W. Joynson-Hicks in making a state- j ment to the Sunday Times. The statement j says that if Prince Carol still pleads illness he may order an independent medical report.—Australian Press Association—United Service. CAROL AND THE SOVIET. (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) London, May 14. Relations between Prince Carol and the Soviet make his return undesirable, according to the French Press The Echo de Paris makes the suggestion of a liaison with Bolsheviks. and says that relations were established between friends of Prince Carol and the high personnel of the Soviet Embassy, • and these relations had not ceased to exist. J —Australian Press Association.