The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-07

(Continued from Page D area and an outlet to the seq (pre- gumably the Mediterranean if she abandoned her neutrality In favor of the Allies.
 Bulgaria Status
 MesSaggeroB dispatch added that 1t appeared unlikely Bulgaria would alter her attitude "since 1t would Dc against her national interest, and British promises were not trusted.
 (The background of the report regarding British representations k Italy and the alleged promise t Bulgaria was the greatest import ance.
 (On April 90, Britain announced that 1t had diverted through -bount British shipping from the Mediter. ranean to the longer, costlier soutf African route.
 (On MRy 1, when the British charge d'affaires was known to have seen Count Ciano, American Am. bassador William Phillips saw Pre- mier Benito Mussolini. It was re- ported that Phillips had said that If Italy were involved in war, Afneri- can shipping would be withheld from the Mediterranean, and that Mussolini assured him that Italy wal not considering entered the war al the moment. Laetr the same day Phillips talked to Sir Noel Charles. About this time powerful Allied naval endorsements began steam ing to the Mediterranean Must Get Consent of All Any British offer to Bulgaria fol return of the Dobrudja area to Bull garia and to give her an outlet or the Mediterranean in return for hel support presumably would be made only with the active consent o France, Turkey, Rumania, Greece and presumably jugoslavia. Sli Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull.Hu' gessen, British ambassador to Fur key now is in Sofia. The irnplica' ton of such an offer presumably would be that Britain, France, Fur. key, Greece. Rumania and probably Jugoslavia were seeking to get Bul. garia both into the British -Frencl, alliance and the Turkish- -Runanian. Greek. .Jugoslav Balkan entente)
 The return last night of the British ambassador, Sir Percy Lo' raine, after a vist to London, wal considered important in view of the latest developments in British. Italian relations.
 Some quarters here connected ths efforts of President Roosevelt and Pope Plus to sound the possibili. ties of ending the European wal with the reported British request to Italy to state its position. War Stories
 At a Northern English Port, May E(UP)- A British Bing Crosby who gave up grooming to join the army and who was commended for bravery in Norway told today how he came upon a German Ski patrol near Dombaas and blew them to hell" with hand grenades.
 The 34-year-old crooner, now c patrol battalion sergeant. said he and IS men were patrolling about IS miles south of Dombaas when they saw a German ski patrol swoop of the mountainside. block the road and set up machine gun nests on both sides.
 T put my men into drains on either side of the road. collected IF sand grenades, took the only Bren (outomatic) gun in the patrol and crawled along the drain towards the nests.
 "The ferries say my pack pro- truding over the road. riddled 1t with machine gun bullets and yelled:
 "'Come on. England. fig tl'
 "I got within IS yards of them and lobbed 10 grenades into them. I blew them to hell.
 'sT'he fellows in the other machine gun nest scrambled of into the woods before I could bet a crack at them"
 The singer said he and his men were willing to go back and fight the Germans on any battlefield.
 They're not much good unless they're in big groups" he comment- xaanrA Qha te naise Ufhal AAia-