Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14
Nazis and Reds
Bolster Forces
Along Danube
Reich Is Reported
Planning Base
Near Constuntu
D, the Associated Press.

4y the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Oct. 14.-Both
Germany and Soviet Russia were
reported speedily strengthening
their military positions in the
strategic area near the mouth of
the Danube today.
Russia was said to be mobiliz-
Ing picked troops along the lower
Danube between its junction
with the River Prut and the
Black Sea, on the southern Dor
der of Bessarabia, and to be hur-
riedly building large gun en-
placements along the line.
German plans to build a naval
air base near Constanta. Rumania's
main Black Sea port, were author
itatively reported
Naval Mission to Arrive.
Preparations were made for the
arrival of a German naval mission
to join the Nazi army. air force and
general staff officers already in Ru-
mania. 1t was said the naval officers
would supervise construction Of the
reported Constanta base.
High-ranking Nazi officers con-
tinued collabora ton with the Ru-
manian general staff for defense of
this Kingdoms oil fields. German
anti-aircraft guns were reported al
ready set up around the borders Of
the fields and German fighter planes,
air and land forces on hand.
The Germans also were reported
supervising construction of anti
aircraft emplacements between the
Danube and railroad tracks at
Giurgiu, big Rumanian river oil port.
Thirty members of the British
legation staff, including naval and
military attaches, and 40 other
members of the British colony in
Rumania. left Bucharest today by
train en- route to Istanbul.
The British, on the verge of a
diplomatic break with Rumania,
said hundreds of their nationals will
have left on Black Sea ships by
Thursday.
Tension Aggravated.
The reported sinking of two Ru-
manian patrol boats by Soviet moni-
tors aggravated the tension in Ru-
mania. already made anxious by
reports of large scale Soviet mill
tary preparations.
Well Informed sources in Bucharest
said the Rumanian vessels were
sunk recently in hotly contested,
simultaneous actions, one at Chllla,
a river port on one of the branches
OF the Danube at the Bessarabian
border, and the other in the Star Of
Istanbul canal which leads out Of
Chilia to the Black Sea.
Rumanian authorities also charged
that Russian vessels stationed at
Chilia had violated Rumanian ter
ritorial waters in the last four days
On Budapest, the mere fact
the Rumanian censor approved
the report of the vessels being
sunk was interpreted as an lndl-
cation of the heighthening ten
sion)
Guns Reported Mounted.
Refugees from Cernauti, chief city
OF Northern Bucovina which Russia
won by ultimatum last summer, re-
ported increased Soviet military &C
tivity, asserting Russia, besides
mounting long range guns at the
junction of the Prut and Danube
rivers, had concentrated large fleet
of fast naval craft along both rivers
and was moving great masses OF
troops toward the frontier.
They said the whole Cernauti
region was being turned into vast
military encampment, that civilians
had been ordered out and that work.
men were busy building an immense
airport, which the refugees said was
for a concentration of 300 fighters
and bombers.
The German Army's instruction
division" meanwhile, tackled the
Job of putting this country in readi-
ness to fight a 1910 style blitzkrleg
A few hundred German officers
and soldiers were to be seen In
Bucharest and at the nearby oil
fields.
Banat Germans Wait.
The German minority at Banat, in
southern Pennsylvania, impatiently
waited. however. for chance to
cheer thousands of Adolf Hitler's
soldiers expected to pass through
by rail and highway soon en- route
to strategic points in young King
Mihais kingdom.
THE entry of German troops
into Rumania brought no evident
reaction in Moscow and reports
of the massing of Russian troops,
guns and ships in Bucovina were
not heard in the Russian CAPT.
tall
The British legation announced
that Alexander Miller, director of
the appropriated Astra-Romana Oil