SECRET SOCIETY

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 5

SECRET SOCIETY

TERRORIST PLOTTERS MURDERS AT MARSEILLES REVELATIONS TO POLICE ACCOMPLICES CONFESS ! CONSPIRACY UNCOVERED By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. h Rec. 7.30 p.m. . Paris, Oct. 13. Jaroslav Novak, who was one of the two men arrested as associates of Kalemen, the assassin of King Alexander and M. Barthou, French Foreign Minister, has admitted that his real name was Pospisel. He is a terrorist whom the police in several countries have sought. They allege that he is associated with numerous outrages. He is already under death sentence in Yugoslavia. He admitted that he travelled to Lausanne on a Hungarian passport, where an accomplice provided a Czechoslovakian passport on which he entered France accompanied by Kalemen. Novak is said to have confessed that he and Ladislas Benes, the other man arrested with him, were members of a Yugoslav terrorist organisation named Pagerich, which, plotted if a first team of three killers headed by Kalemen failed at Marseilles a second team under Novak would attempt the assassination at Paris. It is also alleged that an attempt on the new King Peter’s life was intended, which the arrests prevented. The police allege they have sufficient evidence to guillotine both men. Further information from the Zabreb . police alleges that Novak, who has eight aliases, plotted with numerous accomplices, including the former Deputy, Pavelitch, all members of a secret organisation, to kill King Alexander in 1929. They mined railway bridges, over which the King would pass, with dynamite. r ESCAPE OF CONSPIRATOR. Two conspirators were executed and 16 others were sentenced to terms aggregating 115 years. Novak escaped and was sentenced to death in absentia with four others also associated in the plot against, the King and the murdered manager of a newspaper. It is also alleged that Benes confessed that he belonged to Pavelitch’s terrorist organisation and that he attended the • Yankapousta camp in Hungary with Novak, with 30 others they, were taught to become dead shots. Benes says he was accompanied to France by a mysterious conspirator nicknamed "Monsieur de Docteur,” who provided clothes. The police are now searching for Le Docteur. It has been ascertained that a girl conspirator was named Marie Voudroch, and that she probably witnessed the assassinations. Kraemer, another alleged accomplice, was traced to Avignon, where he disappeared. Benes’ real name is Ivan Raich. After being cross-examined all night he 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 leader lives at Milan. The organisation, he said, taught him the use of machine-guns. BEAUTIFUL GIRL INVOLVED. A beautiful girl at Aix-en-Provence is believed to have supplied the Mauser pistol with which King Alexander and M. Barthou were killed, says a Marseilles message. The police discovered that and his companions were in touch with her during their brief stay. She was beautifully dressed and departed six hours before the crime was committed. The police have taken fingerprints found in the room she occupied. Benes and Novak will be charged with complicity in the murder, says a Geneva cable. Kalemen’s name appears in a list of Croat terrorists believed to be inmates of the Yankapousta camp on the Hungarian border, a complaint against which Yugoslavia handed to the League of Nations, on April 26. M. Barthou was instrumental in persuading the Hungarian delegate to urge his Government to open an inquiry into the camp, which Yugoslavians declared was receiving official Hungarian support. When the League of Nations discussed the camp the Hungarian delegate complained there had been shooting across the frontier. The Yugoslavian representative retorted: “If we fired it was because just across the frontier is a bandits’ lair.”

Armed guards between Fontainebleau and Courtenay, who were searching for Chalny, signalled a motor-car to stop. It contained a woman aged about 30 and a man aged about 20. Neither were able to produce identification papers. The guards mounted the running-board and ordered the man to drive to the police station, upon which the occupants drew revolvers and shot themselves dead.