MURDER HUNT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1929, Page 8

MURDER HUNT

GO AH RESTS FOLLOW EDITOR’S

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BUDAPEST, (Hungary), April l

Exhaustive mensuies an: being taken oy tin: .Jiigo-Slaviaji police to captnre llie murderers of -U. Toni Selllogei, chief editor 01 the newspaper Nov’o.sti and a supporter oi the uietaioroliip, who was shot dead at Zagreb .nigo-Slavia, on Friday night. A roward of ‘'iiS/X/J is uifcrut lor their apprehension. jt is i/iought that the crime” was committed ijy members of a terrorist organsiatmn louniktl by extremists of me lormer Croat Nationalist 'Youths' Society. Since the assassination oji their leader, M. Stephan Mad itch, the hare demanded autonomy. Recently they set uji their own Parliament at Zagreb, tlioin capital, and refused to recognise the authority of Colonel Alaxiimmteh, the mi.iiary dictator sent to Zagreb by the central Government at Belgrade. Several 1 iNntiojialisv leaders: and editors of Nationalist newspapers have ,een questioned by the police, and one •ditor named Shivkocihlar has been detained A Cabinet meeting was held at Belgrade late on Friday night in connection null the mumer, but since derails were not available it was decided ~ot to inlorm Ring Alexander till aiiurday.

Ino iving and Queen’s projected ,'isit to Zagreb is now iiideimiie.y ancellcd.

.-jixcy Nationalists have' already cen arresn-.i m Zagreii, including the nau.leur of the taxicab which took .1. vSdilegel home.

King Alexander has demanded full reports of every stage of the investi•jMtit.n and sent a wreath for the fun.ra! this morning. There were enor,mus crowds at the cemetery.