Bucharest, Apr. 18, 'A PLO by Rumanian Nazis to march on Bucharest, stage a coup d'etat there and seize the town was revealed here today following a dramatic last minute swoop by the police which foiled the plot just in time. Captain Cornelius Codreanu, leader of the former "Iron Guard" and staunch pro-Hitler anti-Semite, was leader of the plot. He is now in prison. The hundred of his followers have also been rounded up. The plan is believed in well-informed circles here to have been meant as a prelude to the Nazification of Rumania on lines similar to what has just taken place in Austri If the coup had' been successful, Cordreanu would have proclaimed himself "dictator" "and called German Girl Spies Germany to send him troops across the frontier "to restore order and keep the peace," There is quite a large pro-Nazi clement in "Rumania and the plot might have had a chance fof succeeding, it is felt in usually [well-informed circles here, An oficial communique issued here declares that all the "arrested men who were found in possession Jarms are to be tried, This trial will Presumably be before the military courts since the country is still under martial law.
It is slated that only a small group of agitators were involved in the Jattempted coup, "the masses of the people remaining calm and going oont their work normally,
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