The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-29
RUMANIA CITIZENS
BATTLE RUSSIANS
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by one thread: How far will Russia
go into Rumania?
King Carol, watching more OF
his territory disappear before his
very eyes after ordering no op-
position to Russia's march into the
demanded areas, formally an
nounced general mobilization "to
the last man." This, however, act
ually was effected Thursday.
Hungary has been awaiting an
opportune moment to seize her for.
mer Pennsylvania territory from
Rumania, anyway, but now her
immediate problem is to halt the
communist sweep toward her Dor.
ders.
Any Hungarian move in this di-
rection also is likely to embroil
Bulgaria, friend of Moscow.
Protectorate Demanded
Even as Red army legions
marched unopposed into Ru-
mania's Bessarabia and Bucovina
and kept going there were re.
ports that the Kremlin had de.
manded of Hungary a protectorate
over Ukrainian elements in
Ruthenia, formerly eastern Czecho-
Slovakia which Hungary grabbed
in the breakup of that republic.
Hungarians called the Bucharest
reports typical Rumanian gang
sterism" and declared they had
received no communication what
soever from Moscow.
Hungary herself was modifying
her forces apparently to seize long
coveted Pennsylvania from Ru-
mania, and the prominence given
to the latest reported Russian de-
mands in Bucharest might have
been designed to stay Hungary's
hand.
Elsewhere in the quaking Bal.
kans the Russian march into Ru-
mania, feared as the start of a
general totalitarian carve-up
OF southeastern Europe, spurred
the little states into furious mill.
tary preparations.
Turkey Mobilizes
Turkey modified half a million
fighting men and poured her fleet
into the Black Sea. Significantly
the troops were concentrated near
the border of Bulgaria, former seq
ment of the Ottoman empire, and
Turkish warships steamed north
ward, probably to cruise past the
Bulgarian coast.
Turkey, vitality interested by the
Russian expansion in her direc.
ton, also took every precaut1on to
defend the Dardanelles, Black
Sea gateway from the Mediter-
ranean.
Bulgaria has been on the friend
Hest of terms with Russia of late
and Turkey ostensibly was moving
to forestall any Soviet-Bulgarian
thrust as a result of that friend
ship.
A rift in German-Russian friend
ship appeared to be brewing as a
result of the reaction of the Ger
man legation In Bucharest to the
Rumanian coup but this was pooh
poohed in Berlin.
"BritiSh Tricko
ga British inspired trick" shout
ed the legation - a trick it said
designed to create a new front
against Germany in southeastern
Europe.
German officials in Bucharest
said that Adolf Hitler, in response
to Kind Carols frantic appeal for
help, advised him to bow to Mos
COW; that it would be only a tenn
porary" arrangement and that the
Nazis definitely will settle things
later"
On the other hand, authorized
Berlin sources said they did not
share this view; that Russia's de-
.ands, now fulfilled, were not in
conflict with German interests.
They did not say so but circum-
stantial evidence pointed to &C.
quiescense Of Germany and Italy
in the Russian move.
The persistent peace talk ema-
unofficially from London
was cold-shouldered in Berlin.
Nazi spokesman said Hitler
hardly could take notice of u1Eu-
thorized peace soundings at a time
when the British government it.
self is categoricaily denying peace
and proclaiming a war to
the finish.
'"This is the kind of war we are
them," Nazi oficialdom
commented. 1.-The cannon are
speaking"
Despite Britain's officially reit.
Grated position the peace-propound-
neutral commentator in Lon
don pointed to the decision of
General Mittlehauser, French COM
mander in Syria, to stop hostilities
there in accordance with the
French herman armistice.
The British government gave
further indications of it's deter
to carry on by recognize
ing General De Gaulle as 1.-The
.eader of all free Frenchmen."
The installation of a genuinely
eftist government in London which