| Show Just in Case Some British Bombers Decide to Pay Call i 4 1 VM r v f 1 4 4 t I IrL rL 12 4 4 7 4 44 iJ fr r 3 r Associated Press GERMAN ANTIAIRCRAFT CREW GUARDS OIL STORAGE TANKS IN RUMANIA Britain has broken off diplomatic relations ns with the nazi- nazi occupied Balkan nation now regarded as enemy territory t. t Iron Guard Revolt in Rumania Gives Newsman Most Exciting Night Editors Editor's note Heres Here's a nerve- nerve tingling sometimes humorous account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of Robert St. St Johns John's danger- danger fraught experiences covering the theIron theiron theiron iron guard revolt in Rumania concluding his ms series of three articles articles ar ar- ar- ar tides on Rumania By ROBERT ST ST. JOHN JOlIN BUCHAREST Rumania Cable Correspondence of the Special News Service Long Service Long after the shots of rebels had ceased in the streets of Bucharest a tough iron was haled before a military mill mili tary court charged with having been the leader of a gang which seized the ministry of justice and occupied it two days What were you doing in that building the judge demanded I I had a perfect right to be there I am the minister of justice was the reply Minister of justice exploded the judge What made you think of that thaU 1 Boasts Boast Sima Sims Appointment I 1 received an appointment from Horia Sima commander of the theiron theiron theiron iron guard He told me I was the new minister of justice He ordered ordered ordered or or- dered me to take possession of ot my building Communist rebel someone shouted from the audience No replied the prisoner calmly remember Sima Siina is also vice pre pre- mier I was acting under orders of Rumania's vice premier Is that rebellion It was a delicate point characteristic characteristic charac charac- of recent history in Rumania Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania so 0 the judge hurried on I met that tough during the most exciting night of my life lIte It was a night when It looked as though Simas Sima's iron were going to win the hattie battle for control of Rumania I took a position not far from the skyscraper which the American Ameri merican meri- meri can owned telephone company built builta a few years ago Bullets were crashing through windows windows windows win win- dows all around me Guns Mow Down Men Men trying to approach the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone building with tommy guns were being mowed down along Bucharest's Bucharest Fifth avenue Suddenly a Rumanian youth beside beside beside be be- side me fell feU to the ground He began to moan I dragged him into a near-by near apartment house doorway I carried the moaning guardis some blocks on my back until I came along in a car to give us a a. lift lilt Reach Hospital at Last Finally I found a partly lighted hospital A halted us a athe at atthe atthe the door and said ald in a matter o of fact voice No shooting shooting- victim is admitted unless he is a I proved the wounded man was a from papers I found in Ia a search earch of ot his pockets But who are you asked th the sentinel pointing a large revolver revolve at my head Just an American newspaper newspaperman man said I. I The Tb sentinel expressed disbelief in iii an argot peculiar to Bucharest but I showed him my ray membership card in the American Red CroHe Cross Cro He summoned his boss and both were so 30 overcome with gratitude gratitud they invited mi me to join the rebel rebe ambulance crew I While I waited for a machine to o arrive to begin my duties duties- what would you have me do with so o many revolvers aimed at me meI meI me- me I took the wounded into the tie operating room Bus Serves as Ambulance Then came the ambulance ambulance-a ambulance ambulance-a a 40 passenger city bus Haul out this body said the thebus thebus theus bus us driver to me before I clambered In n at revolver point He pointed to o a corpse on the floor Five and I dragged the theody body ody out of the bus Then we hopped topped in The driver headed beaded rapidly down the dark street right into the battle It was a dead end street One block lock away soldiers opened up on the bus with machine guns Somehow Somehow Somehow-don't don't dont ask me how how I I got out of that jitney and found myself with the trembling guard- guard a quarter mile away We will charge the machine gun nest said the shivering ex-driver ex but by that time I had decided to part company with the and hugging the walls I found my way back to my hotel Then Then Then-don't don't dont ask me why either I 1 I somehow got back to that shivering crowd of iron They still were in the same spot two hours later and eagerly welcomed welcomed wel wel- me back Finally we skulked along the fronts of buildings for about a amile amile amile mile when we arrived at a huge Euge stone atone building It w was s apparently an iron guard out hang-out for inside I met the minister of justice the justice the same guy I have been telling you about When I 1 protested that I was tired of riding in buses taxis and armored cars and only wanted to get home to bed this here now guy the minister of justice re remember remember remember re- re member escorted me home him him- self t |
