Evening star., 1940-09-06
Countless Planes Assail Britain
In Nonstop Series Of Big Battles;
Carol Abdicates> FIees on Yacht
Mihoi New Kinq:
Capital Is Wild
With Enthusiasm


Carol II, yielding to demands OF
Rumania'S new military dicta-
torship and riotous clamor in
the streets, abdicated today in
favor of his 18-year-old son
Mihai and fled into exile aboard
the royal yacht.
Reported with him was red
haired Magda Lupescu, his asso-
ciate of more than a decade ago,
when he relinquished his right OF
succession to the throne for gay
Paris exile and let Prince Mihai
reign as child monarch under a
regency.
The destination of the royal yacht
which sailed into the Black Sea
from Constanta, was not known. The
King boarded it after secret de-
parture from Bucharest by special
train.
Politicians Rounded Up.
Back of him in troubled, dis
membered Rumania, Carol left his
son as the front of an axis-aligned
military dictatorship which already
had started wholesale roundup oi
important political figures in Carols
decade of power.
Princess Helen, divorced wife of
the abdicated King. arrived by air.
plane to be with her son, one of
whose first regal acts was said to
have been to send for his exiled
mother. She was said to have come
from Dresden, Germany, but this
was not confirmed.
Gen. Antonescu had telegraphed
Princess Helen. saying:
Your majesty, in the hour In
which your son has become King, ]
beg you to- take the first train to
arrive as soon as possible to be with
your son to aid and lead him"
s6e,ooo Yearly for Carol.
Government circles reported that
Carol in exile would receive an an
nual pension" equal to 100000.
Close associates of Gen. Antonescu
said there was long debate at the
palace during the night over Carols
demand for financial settlement.
An annual payment was decided
on, it was said. but Carol likely will
be dlspossessed of much of his ex-
tensive property holdings in Ru.
mania. He was reputed to be one
of the wealthiest men in Europe.
Prince Mihai Immediately was
proclaimed King successor to his
father, but only to be a figure
head ruler under stern Gen. Ion
AntoneScu, to whom Carol had frs,
yielded his kingly powers and at
whose demand he finally gave up
the throne
While a wild, strained enthusiasm
swept the capital at the proclama-
ton of Mihai'S succession, 46-year.
old Carol was believed to be en-
route to Egypt But there was no
confirmation of this, and other
observers supposed he might seek
exile more distant from his dis
membered Balkan realm-possibly
some place in America. Switzerland
had been suggested earlier as q
place of refuge.
Gangs Beat Jews.
Gangs of the anti-Semitic Iron
Guard, which Carol had outlawed
and hundreds of whose members had
died before his firing squads, roamed
Bucharest, beating Jewish shopkeep-
ers who failed to hang pictures OF
stalwart young Mihai in their win.
doWS.
(ReuterS, British news agency,
reported to London today that
shots were heard in the square
of Rumania's royal palace this
afternoon. 1t said two gendarmes
were wounded)
Much of the clamor for Carols alb
dication and Mihai's succession hac
come from the Iron Guard. Police
made no effort to control the ex.
cesses of the Guardists. Street cele'
brations of Mihai's return to king
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