The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-30
TAKE NAZI
SUPPLY TRAINS
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move to the Carpathians would place
the government in the approximate
center of the country
Foreign correspondents were told
that military authorities had taken
over the communications system,
aid military censorship becomes eff
fective at midnight Saturday. Some
London correspondents and others
already have had their telephone
connections cut off in the past "a
hours because of stories they filed.
Bessarabia, which the Russians
always have called the land of milk
and honey. already is under the
heavy tread of the Soviet military
in a comparatively bloodless occu-
patton.
Russian sources said, too, that the
principal cities in northern Buco.
vina the other area yielded by
Carol under a Moscow ultimatum-
are now in control of the Red army.
Is Miles Beyond
The chaotic state of affairs and
the lack of good communications
from Bucharest to the provinces
made it difficult to learn at what
point in the north the Russians had
haltef, but the latest semi.official
word was that they had pushed on
as far as Dorohoi, some Is miles be-
yond the western boundary of Bes-
sarabia and thus well within old Ru-
mania.
Russian informants declared, how
ever, that this penetration beyond
the agreed line was probably a mil
itary error"
There were, at the same time,
signs that at least two possible
sources of conflict were quieting.
These involved Bulgaria and Hun.
gary, which have claims Of their
own for Rumanian territory. 1t
seemed clear, from information re-
ceived by diplomats here, that their
demands were being Gained.
In Budapest, Hungary, it was
learned that Germany and Italy were
urging both Bulgaria and Hungary
to stay at peace and continue their
production, with the understanding
that their demands upon Rumania
will be adjusted sin due time"
Nevertheless, King Carol, who al.
ready had appealed strongly for
Adolf Hitler's help lest his country
simply break apart under the Rus
sian-Bulgarian- Hungarian demands,
was forming an army of 10000 900
in a "last man. mobilization.
damned With Refugees
The highways of Rumania were
jammed with refugees and with
hundreds of thousands Of Ruman-
lar troops answering the call to serv-
ice while the Russian soldiers
TRAPPED down the winding, muddy
roads of Bessarabia, taking control
Of town after town.
The army of occupation, which
started pouring down yesterday
from Russian Poland and also over
the only bridge the Dniester river
near Kisinev, continued streaming
today through these bottlenecks and
then spreading into the territory.
Waves of Soviet fighting planes
flew overhead as escorts and then
landed at B~essarabian airports over
which were hoisted the Red flag.
The first Russian units to enter
Rumania were corps of heavy tanks
followed by light tanks, artillery
supply trains, motorized infantry
and soldiers on foot.
Eye-witnesses said that a scarcity
of supply trucks indicated that the
army intended to live on the land.
In some isolated points on the Ru.
manian frontier forces not inform
ed of the country capitulation fired
on Soviet planes and engaged the
advance Red army units.
Other reports told of several scat
tered machine-gun actions in which
an undetermined number of Russian
soldiers were wounded.
But for the most part the Ruman-
ian frontier force simply stood 81.
by, watching the entry of
troops against whom, for Fl years.
their own army had stood guard.
Bessarabia's population of 4,000,-
000-one of the most eonglomerate
in Europe--took the occupation with
feelings as mixed as their blood con-
nections.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews,
who only a few days ago had ex-