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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

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a little air in the garden of the house where he had been hiding from his assassin. For this murder Georgieff got a sentence of life imprisonment, but two years later a political amnesty released him. It was then that he went to Hungary and is said to have become instructor to the Croatian refugees at Janka Puszta in the use of bombs and pistols, until; at the end of last month, orders reached him to proceed to France to Kill King Alexander. He must have,, known that the deed would cost him his life, since it is a rule of IMRO that a murderer who cannot hope to escape shall be shot dead on the spot by two companions, detailed for that purpose, so that he may not give the secrets of the organisation away under examination. The records of the Croat USTASHI is not so bloodstained as that of IMRO, for it is not so large. They have sniped Jugoslav frontier guards and hidden bombs on railway trains entering Jugoslavia. They have organised gunrunning expeditions along the Dalmatian coast, and one of the Croat terrorists arrested in France, Pospisil, is the man who murdered a teacher in Zagreb, who was friendly to the Jugoslav Government, and later had killed two policemen sent to arrest him.

No more formidable organisations of political violence have ever existed than IMRO and the USTASHI. Their working agreement makes them doubly dangerous, and one wonders if the number of their outrages is not yet complete.