Evening star., 1940-10-13
Reich Troops
Parade Into
Bucharest
Rumuniuns Welcome
Instruction Division
And Air Squodrons
By the Associated Press.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. Ia
German troops under command Of
general of cavalry, accompanied
by six officers wearing the red
striped trousers of the general staff.
entered Bucharest today and planted
the swastika firmly and formally In
the capital of Rumania.
Established, too, was an advance
command" of the Nazi air force un-
der German Aviation Gen. Speidel.
A long column Of field-gray mo-
torcars carried German soldiers with
fixed bayonets through the streets
and squadrons of airplanes, some
with the Nazi insignia, roared over
head.
German flags few from unaccus-
toned standards; bands played
Deutschland Uber Allies. the Horst
Vessel song and the Rumanian ma
tional anthew.
The implications of this triurn-
phant entry-this incontestable Ger.
man military penetration Of R,ima.
nit-were many.
British Leave Hurriedly.
Foreign observers speculated at
new German-Italian moves in
Southeastern Europe and recalled
the declaration of pro-British Tur-
key that 1000 900 bayonets would
stand athwart any Axis attempt to
move in Turkeys direction in the
Near East.
Amid the parades, the band mu-
sic, the stir in the city, British sub
jects-whose governments relations
with Rumania stand at crisis-quiet-
ly packed and hurriedly left.
German circles rejoiced privately
that the Reich had now established
an air patrol of the Rumanian oil
fields so vital to Germanys war ef-
fort and declared-as other Ger
mans had done when the Na1s
marched into Norway, into Den
mark, into the Low Countries-that
the Reich had again taken the ini-
tiative away from the British.
But ofilcially the presence Of NaI
troops here was attributed to de-
sire by the Germans to help train
the Rumanian Army.
More Troops TO Come.
The Rumanian government.
headed by Gen. Ion Antonescu since
the forced abdication of King Carol
II, issued a communique thus ex-
planning matters:
The former government asked
Germany for her help regarding
equipment and instruction Of the
Rumanian' Army in using the new
materials in accordance with the
new methods of war. Premier Ion
Antonescu, finding this an excellent
idea, adopted it.
THE Germans, giving support to
this request with good will and
friendship. sent a military mission
to Rumania, the first part of which
arrived today under command OF
Gen. Hansen"
It was made clear, incidentally,
that still more German troops are
to come.
Gen. Hansens command was de-
scribed by German informants as
an 'instructional division"
Censorship forbade the transmits
sion of news as to the exact size
of the German forces here. In q
single luncheon 100 German STAN
officers were guests; Italians in
black shirts and Spaniards in red
berets held another reception in the
same hotel.
INSTRUCTORS" Reach GalatL
The Rumanian Gen. Ionitziu well
coined the German commander.
Speaking in the German language
he declared "co-operation" between
the German and Rumanian armies
had been revived with great hope
for the future"
This land army, which knew the
German Army well and admired it.
has looked forward to this Coop
Grafton with trust" he said. 1T is
our honest wish that relations now
resumed should be constant and
everlasting"
The German Gen. Hansen, re-
spending, said:
I'VE believe that this co-opera-
ton with the Rumanian Army will
work to the best interests Of both
of our countries"
Aside from the German forces
which arrived here it was reported
that Danube River steamers had
brought large numbers of German
INSTRUCTORS" to Galati, Rumania.
the Black Sea port just across the
Danube from recently acquired Rus
sian territory.