The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-26
IRON GUARDS FACE
DEATH OR SUICIDE
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use 800, 600, 0OO lei q The - o1
Guard poor relief find.
G General Antonescu conferred
during the day with the German
minister, Baron Manfred Won Kill
linger, and put every dock, airport
and railroad depot under military
control. ALI save international rail-
road traffic was halted; a 10 pm.
curfew was imposed; soldiers were
ordered to instantly shoot any per-
son failing to halt in response to
challenge.
Dead Identified
Long lines of Jews filed all day
into the morgues to identify rela-
tives killed in the rebellion. Jewish
quarters were sacked, ] ewis h
homes soaked in oil and set afire,
synagogues pillaged, wrecked and
burned.
In n Jewish home, it devel-
oped today, -four an a half million
lei were stolen. Soldiers in mop
ping UP discovered vast quantities
of money, furs, clothing, furniture
looted from homes and shops by
the rebels.
General Antonescu, still at the
head of the state after four days
Of terror, announced that he was
forming a new political party
which would include Iron Guards
men who had remained loyal to
him and would promote the COM
mon spirit with Germany and It.
a1y." The new government Is ex-
pected to be largely military.
IT make it a duty and an n
to declare to the nation in these
dIys of greatest sadness that l
have behind me the loyal shadow
of the great fuehrer adolf Hitler)
and the honor of German might
which guaranteed our borders"
This the premier wrote at the
end of a long manifesto giving his
account Of the rebellion. Over and
over he presented himself as the
victim of ingratitude and inferen-
TALLY recalled his own association
with the Iron Guard-whose green
shirt he wore symbolically after
the coup by which he deposed King
| Carol last Sept. 6, with the support
of this same Iron Guard.
Men whom I trusted and all
those dear children in whom I put
such faith and advised to respect
the death of Codreanu (Cornelu
Codereanu, a slain Iron Guard
leader could find no other way to
show their faith in me than to send
bullets against me and the state
thus went Antonescu's account.
'In the pages of history there
does not exist a page Ct greater in
gratitude.
"In the premier's office I worked
like a slave early and late. I aban-
doned my home sc as not to lose
a minute.
"They organized against me with
the help of Former Minister Of In
terror General George Petrovies-
Gu and Director of Gendarmee
| Ghica and officers of the municipal
police.
"They concentrated vagabonds
malcontents and assembled pieces
of artillery, machine. n and RI
files with which they tried to as
s~assinate me by night. The attempt
did not succeed, so they attacked
by day." l
(Press dispatches to Belgrade
reported today that a separate at
tempt upon Antonescu's life was
made Jan. 81 by q man who ap-
peared at the premier's home in
the uniform Of a foreign office
porter representing that he had
an urgent letter. Antonescu, con-
fronted as he left his bath, was
declared to have jumped back into
the bathroom, slamming the door
before the assassin could fire. The
visitor was then arrested by body
guards.)
"At the same time, in institu-
tons with money paid into the
state by you citizens, they installed
rebel groups and with them were
Joined enemies of the state, young
idealists and i%nnocents who were
betrayed from the start.
"Strikes were called. Factories
were burned $50.
II tried without success to stop
the rebellion without loss OF
blood.) l. who made the coup
Dictate of Sept. 6 without shedding
a drop Of blood And because
l did not want to cover my hands
with blood l was obliged to allow
troops to shoot our brothers.
I'm the attack on the premier's
office, in which two soldiers were
killed and one officer was wound
ed, not a single rebel was wound
ed.
six hundred vagabonds, men
and women of the lowest order
and a child of II years old who
shot a machine-gun at the soldiers,
did not have a single wound
"Yet on one street a soldier
was captured and they poured
gasoline and oil on him and ig-
nited him before the agonized eyes
Of his comrades. The rame thing
happened on other s eets
by my order the army never
attacked during the frs two days
Of the rebellion, but only defended
itself.
"The wretches who got the Iron
Guard to serve foreign interests
and the vagabonds who fell dc
not deserve a better fate. But
young, correct people have faller
for a false belief.
THE severest punishments are