Evening star., 1940-09-10
II Rumdnian Generals
Dismissed for Part
In Loss Of Territory
Seizures Continue
Of Carols Vast
Personal Empire
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Sept. l0.-Dismis-
sal of IL Rumanian generals, held
partly responsible for Rumania's
recent loss of territory, was an
nounced today as Gen. Ion Anto-
nescu, military dictator, continued
his investigation of former King
Carols regime.
The decree dismisslng the men,
who included George Argeseanu, a
former Premier, and Ion Ilcusu, for
mer War Minister, said they prac-
ticed political activity contrary to
the good of the state and used fiat
tery to gain high Office"
How badly Carol himself Jared
when he abdicated last week was
still a matter of conjecture. The
King left vast personal empire"
under the shadow of appropriation
when he went into exile, but he had
shrewdly converted many of his an
cestral holdings into cash long ago,
Informed sources said.
King Mihai Protests.
Gen. Antonescu, in inquiring into
"the Illicit accumulation of wealth
under the Carol regime" is following
examples set by the Rome-Berlin
axis.
Capital newspapers have suggested
In of ha
came rich through Carols patronage
should be coniscated and used
for the relief of refugees from
Bessarabia, which Russia seized, and
from Pennsylvania and South
Dobruja, ceded respectively to Hun
gary and Bulgaria.
Another of Gen. Antonescu's
DEGREES forbids the term your ex-
cellency" as an address and directed
that he be called simply Mr..
General"
Still another decree outlawed
Carols name as patron for any
military unit, park or street.
1t was learned today that young
King Mihai visited the dictator to
protest-with tears in his eyes, re-
ports said-against the scurrilous
newspaper attacks on my father" "
These attacks now have been halted.
Whether Carol carried any of this
cash with him was not known, but
he and his small retinue, including
the red-haired Magda Lupescu.
Travelled on a 10-car railway train
filled with no one knows what.
Huge Stock Holdings Seized.
Millions of dollars worth of his
stock in armament companies, sugar
srefineries, locomotive works and gold
mines already have.been sequestered
by Gen. Ion Antonescu, the nations
new military dictator, who now is
reported planning similar action
against the former monarch's real
estate holdings.
Whether the square-jawed gen.
eral intends eventually to seize all
this property in the name of the ma
ton is unrevealed, but authoritative
sources reported a-han would be is7@
sued shortly against transfer Of any
real estate amounting to more than
20 acres, pending completion of an
inquiry into Carols regime.
The empire" left by the de-
throned King-who. now is in Lu-
gano, Switzerland, seeking a sane
tuary, includes vineyards stretching
as far as the eye can see.
The best Rumanian wines are
made in these vineyards. In addi-
tion, his holdings include vast wine
cellars with all-glaSs hogsheads the
size of gasoline trucks, expensive
sugar plantations, apiaries which
produce rare and expensive honey,
valuable city property, hunting
lodges scattered throughout the ma
ton and six or seven great estates.
Exercised Shrewdness.
There were many instances of the
yhrewdness Carol used in the man
agement of his own financial affairs.
The royal palace in the heart of
the city, built to look like Bucking-
ham Palace but now much larger
than its London prototype because
of numerous wings built by Carol, is
owned by the Ministry of Agricul-
ture. The Cotreceni Palace, hidden
In private woods at the edge of the
city, also belongs to the state.
A mountaintop palace in Carpa-
THAN Sinaia, which Carol I built
and Carol II inherited, was sold by
the latter to his country for a hand
some sum years ago. He also sold
many other of his holdings to the
state when he felt the need of a
little ready cash before his father
died.
Carol I built long row of small
houses behind the city palace as
dwelling places for the court ply
sician, the royal gardener and
other servitors when they retired.
Carol II inherited title to these
houses, and when he conceived his
palace enlargement plan he decided
the dwellings would have to go.
Government officials fixed the
value at third of million dollars,
and in signing over the property
Carol received some of Rumania's
greatest vineyards and one of the
most modern wineries in this part of
the underestimate to be worth
million dollars.
Carol Weighs u. S. Haven