MILITARY PLOT IN YUGOSLAVIA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 5

MILITARY PLOT IN YUGOSLAVIA

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Attempt to Overthrow the Regent

LEADER 'DIES' SUDDENLY

(By Telegraph

(Eeceived 7, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. A Mickey Mouse comic-strip figures in a remarkable story from Yugoslavia. Mr H. Harrison, Eeuter 's eorrespondent at Belgrade for eight years, was ordered to leave by Wednesday owing to allegedly tendentious reports, apparently in connection with the statement that a comic-strip appearing in a newspaper had heen indelinitely banncd. The police state that the strip had been banned for only wo days, as it depicted a Euritanian revolt, in wliieh the boy ldng's uncle, was plotting to depose hira. The News-Chronicle says well-inform-ed circles in Yienna declare the strip so closely resembled actual conditions that it was considered dangerous. Nevertheless, it was not the boy king's uncle, but the deputy -Kegent of Yugoslavia, General Tomitch, who waa planning a military conspiracy, aiming at the removal of the Regent (Prince Paul) and the Premier (M. Stoyadino

vitch) and a military alliance with Germany. He had the support of flvo generals commanding military district3 who prepared a manifesto declaring that the estahlishing of a military dictatorship would lteep the country from Italian hands. "When the plot was discovered, a general and a junior ofiicer were sent witlx proofs of the treachery to see General Tomitch, who died as a result of the visit. It was given out that his death was due to suicide. The generals have been suspended. A message from Belgrade on Noveinber 12 stated that the deputy-Eegent of Yugoslavia, General Tomitch, was found shot in his home, a bullet having lodged nfear the heart. It was stated that he was depressed by his family troubles.