COMPLICITY ALLEGED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1934, Page 5

COMPLICITY ALLEGED

HUNGARY AND ASSASSINATION.

DIRECT YUGOSLAVIAN CHARGES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

Rec. 5.5 p.m. Geneva, Nov. 29. Yugoslavia, in a memorandum to the League of Nations amplifying the Note of last Thursday, in which Hungary was charged with complicity in the murder of King Alexander, declares that the success of the assassination plot was due to the Hungarian Government’s attitude towards the terrorist agitation against Yugoslavia. It itemised the following irrefutable facts”: (1) Tire assassins were selected on Hungarian soil from among terrorists carefully prepared for such work. (2) The assassins departed unrestrainedly with Hungarian passports. The memorandum analyses the help which the terrorists allegedly received from the Hungarian civil and military authorities, how they were trained to handle rifles and infernal machines and helped to smuggle explosives across the frontier. The memorandum also names five classes of terrorists recruited from Yugoslav colonies abroad. They were known criminals and members of the Macedonian revolutionary organisation called Brim. The Hungarian authorities knew of the organisation’s methods and purpose and permitted the training despite Yugoslavian protests. Dr. T. Eckhardt denies the Yugoslavian charges. He states that Hungary will produce evidence vindicating her good name, v