MARTIAL LAW.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11

MARTIAL LAW.

; PROCLAMATION IN J RUMANIA. A SERIOUS POSITION. (BY CABI-t—rBKSS associatioh—corvwouT.} AXD X.S. CASTJI ASSOCUTIOK.i (.Received October SOth, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 29. Tho Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that martial law prevails throughout Rumania. A number of garrisons have been disarmed, and confined to barracks t<> prevent mutiny. Three aeroplanes containing politictil refugees from Rumania hare arrived at Subostitsa, Jugo Slavia. Spasmodic revolts in Bessarabia havi> been suppressed with severity, score* having been killed and many arrested. A British United Press message, from Vienna states that the Rumanian situation is becoming worse every hour. The Government has forbidden a meeting of the Peasant Party called for November Ist. The leader) M. Maniii, insists that the convention will meet. M. llratiano lias repliod ordering the military to be in readiness to arrest n.s revolutionaries all attending the conference. WHOLESALE ARRESTS. (AUSTRALIA* AND V.B. CABMS AJSOCUTJOX.) (Received October 80th, 11.20 p.ia.) VIENNA, October 39. Wholesale arrests of Prince Carol's supporters reported from Bucharest include General Theodorescu. Several divisions of tEe army have been brought from the country to guard tlio capital. The tension between M. Bratiano and the Royal family is acuter. The Premier endeavoured to force tho Regency to endorse the promotion of General Mandarescu to the command of the Army, but the Regency is pressing the claim of Prince Nicholas.

RUMANIAN THRONE. M. BRATIANO SPEAKS OUT. (4&9WUI.I** AK» XX. ÜBU iBSOCUWOK.) BUCHAREST, October 28. M. Bratiano won the confidence of Parliament by 8 vigorous denunciation of the attempts to interfere with the Monarch and the Constitution. He impassionedly recalled the la to King's words at the time of Prince Carol's renunciation of his rights. when he said: "The rotten branch of the dynasty must be cut off so that the tree shall remain healthy."

PRINCE CAROL

IMPORTANT LETTERS STOLEN. ("Abqus.*) (Received October 30th, 6.5 p.m.) PARIS, October 29. The police are enquiring into a mysterious theft of papers from Prince Carol's villa at Neuilly. Prince Carol's valet, a Rumanian, states that he was standing outsider & cinema when a woman invited him to lunch at a restaurant and paid the bill. He had not the slightest recollection of what happened after that until he woke the next morning with a headache. Returning to the villa:, he found that some of his own letters, as well , as Prince Carol's, were missing, although jewellery and money were untouched. Two days later the valet's letters were returned to the letter-box, except one, in which names of some of Prince Carol's supporters were mentioned.

CAROL EXPLAINS

(Received October 30th, 11.80 p.m.)/ PARIS, October 28. "I am waiting my hour," said Prince Carol, during a hurried trip in connexion with the burglary. "During the past three months,'* he eaid, "representatives, notably of the Peasants 1 Party, have asked me repeatedly to declare my candidacy. I refused, thinking the time premature, until recently, when I gave in. My declaration in the possession of M. Maaoilesen was merely a reply to a question, and was not intervention on my part"