The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-07
LEAGUE HEARS WAR
THREAT TO ENEMIES
OF LITTLE ENTENTE
Spokesman for Allied Danubian
Powers Issues Warning
to Hungary
TROOPS GATHER At BORDER
Deny Encouraging Plot Against
King Alexander; Blame
croats in u. S,
Copyright, 1884, By The (E,)

Croats in U. S.
Copyright, 1884, BY The (F))
Geneva, Dec. 7.-(Py-A flat threat
Of war against any nation which
seeks to violate the alliance of Yugo-
slavia. Czechoslovakia and Rumania
was made to the world Friday by the
foreign minister Of Czechoslovakia.
The warning was issued by DR..
Eduard Benes, regarded as most re-
sponsible for the organization of that
alliance-the Little Entente. He told
the council Of the League of Nations
gathered in an exciting session in ar
effort to settle a quarrel between
Hungary and Yugoslavia, that if any
one strikes blow at the unity OF
the Little Entente, war will result.
While the League listened to the
verbal combat Of delegates. reports
from Hungary that force of Yugo-
slav troops had crossed the interna-
tional border, later retiring, indicated
imminent possibilities of serious diff
between the two nations.
Situation Is Critical
The situation:
6Seged, Hungary: A clash be-
tween the Yugoslav soldiers, who
entered the country three miles
from this city, Hungary's second
largest, and a border patrol. was
narrowly averted. City officials
said they did not think Szeged
would be attacked but if so they
were prepared to defend it.
Budapest: The cabinet met in
special session to adopt q course
Of action. A protest against the
expulsion of thousands OF Hun
garians from Yugoslavia as q re-
suit Of the assassination Of King
Alexander, has been sent to
Geneva.
Belgrade: A government spokes-
man said diplomatic relations
with Hungary would not be sever
ed and that their problems would
be settled at Geneva.
Previously the council had heard
Yugoslav charges that armed bands
Of assassins. plotting against the life
Of the late King Alexander Of Yugo-
slavia, had been protected In Hungary
while they plotted against the mon
arch's life.
They also heard q Hungarian re-
buttal that q plot against King Alex
ander was announced in America
and that his assassination was the re-
suit of internal conflict in Yugosla-
via.
The Czechoslovak minister charg-
ed that q general conspiracy existed
against the territorial integrity OF
the nations which were created by
the World War.
1T, in the future" DR.. Benes de.
clared, anybody strikes at the unity
Of Yugoslavia, CzechoSlovakia anG
catastrophe will surely
come"
Speech Creates Sensation
A sensation was created by BeneS'
speech, in the course Of which he de-
clared attempts similar to the Mar
settle crime were organized against
Slovakia on the Northern Hungarian
frontier"
Criticising Hungarian authorities
for giving asylum to alleged terror
lists, Benes said the forces which per-
nit organization Of gangs Of terror
lists seek to detach Croatia from
Yugoslavia and Slovakia from Czech
oslovakia.
They seek to strike a blow ut the
historical development Of Danubian
Europe" he asserted.
Thor Eckhardt, Hungary's delegate
to the league Of nations, charged
that Croats meeting in the United
States had pronounced q death sen
tence against the late King Alexander
Of Yugoslavia, who was assaSsinated
at Marseille.
Eckhardt's statements were in re-
ply to direct accusations leveled
against Hungary by Bogolyub Yev-
itch, Yugoslavia's foreign minister,
who denounced the Hungarian gov
eminent.
Yevtich characterized the crime as
4 grave menace to peace and said
Yugoslavia feels that the outrage at
Marseille was directed against the
Yugoslav nation Of which the king
was the glorious chief
Organized In Hungary
The YugoSlav foreign minister
charged that the assassination was an
expression Of conspiracy organized
and nourished in Hungary" and said
the most serious form Of assistance
granted the terrorists was the direct
protection by Hungarian authorities
which he said they enjoyed In Hun
gary.
Yevtich summed up what he calico
. chain Of overwhelming evidence
against Hungarian authority and made
the following charges:
/. During the last six years. 70
cases Of terrorist crimes have been
in Yugoslav territory:
2. All these crimes occurred near
the Hungarian frontier:
3. Sentences passed by Yugoslav
courts prove that all these crimes at.
tempted were perpetrated by terror.
lists from Hungary with arms and ex-
plosives;
/. The evidence Of terorists proved
many received systematic training In
special Hungarian camps;
5. The investigation BY foreign Of
flee police established that thret
criminals were chosen in Hungarian
territory to participate in the ATTEMPT
upon Alexander aid that they MI