The Archive · 1934

No Extradition

Turin, Nov. 25.

extradition of of the rorlst Organization of "Ustachis," andthe law student Egan Kwaternik, his assistant, alleged to be the master-minds behind the Marseilles murders of the Yugoslav King Alexander I. and the French Foreign Minister M, Louis Barthou, was cetused yesterday by the judilary authorities of Turin who two terrorists were arrested by the police on October 18, 'Dr. Pavelich, head of the terrorist organization of included in Its membership Petrus' Kalemen (alias Suck, alias Viado Gueorgri alas Chernozemsky), the murderer of King Alexander and M. Barthou, and Kwaternik are strongly suspected of having been the organizers of the Marseilles outrage, As soon as they were arrested in Turin a few da after the murders, their extradition was demanded by' the French Gov ernment.

Dr. Pavelich, former Zagreb deputy and member of the. Extremist Croatian Party working for the separation of Croatia from Yugo-Slavia, founded in 1929 the association of "Ustachis" (Lo, rebels) which was responsible for a previous attempt on King Alexander's life in Zagreb. The plot, however, proved abortive, as it was discovered in time. Two of the terrorists implicated were sentenced to death and executed, while other 16 accused received various. terms of imprisonment and hard labour. That time Dr. Pavelich managed to flee abroad from Zagreb, Kwaternik is believed to be none other than the notorious Egan Kramer. head of the terrorist gang which actually organized the Mar~ sellles murders.—Havas,

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