Evening star., 1933-12-30
BOMB IS EXPLODED
AMONG MOURNERS
Of SLAIN PREMIER
Blast in Royal Pavilion CT
Rumanian Rail Station
Follows Assassination.

UIUWS HSSQSSIlIQtiUIis
BY the Associated Press.
SINAIA, Rumania, December 30
Mourners, thronging the railroad sta
ton il tribute to their assassinated
panic today by an explosion in the
royal pavilion in the station.
One child was slightly injured and
the property damage was slight despite
the panic The frightened bystanders
were calmed by royal guards who
rShed to the scene. King Carol was
not in the station at the time
The body of the premier, who was
slain yesterday by a student member Of
an outlawed Nazi group. was placed on
board train which departed at 1:30
pm, from this city, the seat of the
royal palace, for Bucharest, the capital.
Blast Cause Undetermined
The explosion. the cause of which
was not Immediately determined, en-
veloped the royal pavilion in a cloud
of smoke. At first it was reported that
the royal coach had been wrecked
Hardly had the excitement subsidized
When-only a few minutes before the
train departed-the late premier'S
brother-in-law. Radu Polizu. forced his
way into the station guard room where
the assassin, Nicholas Constantnescu,
was held.
Polizu whipped out a revolver and
fired several shots point blank at Con-
stantinescu. but missed.
Polizu was overpowered and led
away He said he wanted to avenge
the death of Duca.
Constantinescu was being held in the
station awaiting his transport under
guard to Bucharest.
The body of the leader of Rumania's
new national government had been
taken to the station a short time before
from the palace where it had remained
during the night and early today. The
once bitter political enemy of King
Carol. Duca was the victim of bullets
fired by fanatical student member af
the anti-Semitic and Fascist Iron Guard
he outlawed three weeks ago.
Had Conferred With King.
Waylaid at a railway station as he
prepared to leave for Bucharest after a
conference with the king, Duca was
felled by four bullets-all taking effect
in the head.
Today as all Rumania mourned, it
was recalled that it was Duca who even
after Carols dramatic return from
Paris in 1880 denounced him in parli-
ament.
Later, however. after the coronation,
it also was Duca who did much to
smooth out the bitterness between the
king and the Liberal party, and when
tions to the return of the liberals to
power finally were overcome, it was
Duca again whom he commissioned to
form the cabinet, November II.
With unwittingly prophetic words,
Duca's son-legation secretary at Toxic
-cabled his father that day:
Congratulations and condolences ...'
Guard Members Jailed.
AS plans were made for Duca's
funeral, the government pressed a
nation wide roundup of known members
of the Iron Guard. Hundreds were
arrested and placed in Jail.
Disorders have f1ared throughout Ru-
mania frequently as a result of new
wave of anti-semitic radicalism felt
since the success of Chancellor Adolf
Hitler's anti-Jewish campaign in Ger
many
After riots developed in connection
with the recent parliamentary cam
paign the Duca government cutlawed
the Iron Guard and took measures
aimed at its suppression.
Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss of Aus
tria, who himself narrowly escaped
death when he was wounded by gun
fire in October, was among the first
to send condolences to Rumania.
The police interrogation of the as
sassin failed t to Develop anything M sub
killed Duca because of the 1atter's
ruthless treatment Of the Iron Guard
authorities said.
Two Others Accused.
Held with him were two alleged ac-
completes also arrested at the rail-
road station.
The principal plank in the iron guard
platform is against Marxism, for ma
tional regeneration, against OutWorn
parties and a liberal state, against
semitism in press and business, against
corruption in government and for reSto-
ration of tradition, morals, and the
customs of our forefathers."
Although members of the party wear
a SwaStika emblem similar to that worn
by Nazis. they have one custom which
is not prevalent in Germany.
In opening a meeting, it is part
OF the ritual for the iron guard leader
to kneel and kiss the earth to SYM
bolize the party's community of destiny
with peasants.
Early this morning King Carol for
Rumanian cabinet leader. to take over
the premiership and other ministers
to remain at their posts.