WAR OR APPEAL

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 7

WAR OR APPEAL

YUGOSLAVIA’S CHOICE PEACEFUL ROAD CHOSEN INDICTMENT OF HUNGARY SHELTER OF TERRORISTS CONSIDERATION OF WAR By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Geneva, Nov. 23. Many ask, in view of the toning down of the Yugoslavian Note complaining that Hungary sheltered Croatian terrorists, what the original draft was like. One deleted passage said the Yugoslavia had to choose between war and an appeal to the League and had decided on the latter. The Note says that King Alexander’s and M- Louis Barthou’s assassinations at Marseilles were organised and executed with the participation of terrorist elements who had taken refuge in Hungary and who continued to enjoy the complicity with which the crime was finally perpetrated. The Hungarian authorities’ responsibility in aiding and supporting the terrorism of Yugoslav emigres was absolutely clear. Yugoslavia expresses faith in the efficacy of the League as a guardian of peace,-and asks that the responsible persons involved be denounced before the highest organ of international community. The Czechoslovak and Roumanian Ministers are submitting Notes supporting Yugoslavia. HUNGARY’S PROTEST. Herr Ekhardt, Hungary’s representative at the League of Nations, expressed satisfaction that the matter had been brought to the notice of the League and emphasised the urgency of having it cleared up. He expressed surprise and indignation, in view of the campaign of vilification against Hungary, at Yugoslavia’s attempt to impugn Hungary’s fair name. He formally protested against these calumnies as international terrorism against a country which has been disarmed and was an easy prey. The Gibmale d’ltalia regrets that the whole matter is not being discussed openly at Geneva, inasmuch as European Governments have for too long turned a blind eye to European dangers.. . , - ‘ “From a mountain has emerged a mouse,” declares the Tribune (Rome), commenting on Yugoslavia’s decision merely to send a letter to the League regarding the assassinations at Marseilles. • The Yugoslav Government in a memorandum to the League pointed out that a situation threatening peace had developed between. Hungary and Yugoslavia consequent on King Alexander’s assassination. The memorandum indicted Hungary and included photographic and documentary evidence allegedly establishing the complicity of Hungarian officials in the assassination conspiracy.

The League was asked to take measures to remove the threatening situation. A statement made by the Hungarian Government at Budapest emphatically protests against the Yugoslav Note and repudiate? the charge of complicity in King Alexander’s murder. It points out that’the Yugoslav Government has not communicated with Hungary regarding the alleged proofs of complicity. Otherwise they .would have been readily refuted.

Yugoslavia’s action is therefore characterised as illegitimate and as endangering the peace of Europe. The Hungarian Government demands an immediate and impartial League of Nations investigation, SERAJEVO MEMORIAL YUGOSLAVIA TWITTED Rec. 7 p.m. London, Nov. 22. An Oxford student, Mr. H. L. Henderson, in a letter to the Times suggests that Yugoslavia would strengthen her case against the encouragement of political assassination before the League of Nations if she demolished the Serajevo memorial to the murderer whose action started the World War.