The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-06
kremIln Calls
In Ministers
Dslksn Crisis
Causes Concern
Dy ROBERT y. r III.

RI MI ri u
BUDAPEST, Jan. S-R-
Soviet Russia's ministers TO Bull
garia, Y~ugoslavia, Rumania andl
Hungary sped to Moscow todayl
repeatedly for Kremlin consulta-|
tions on Germany's ever-increas-|
ing military might in the Bal
kans. u
The summoning Of the envoys|
was taken here as the hrst de-
finite evidence the Russians havG|
given Of their interest in the laree|
scale German troop movements
Of the last week.
Forty troop trains q day have
moved across Hungary into Ru-
mania, which was cut of entire
ly from communication with the
outside world early today.
In some Soviet circles in the
Balkans It was reported that
Moscow already has warned
Berlin against step which
might seriously endanler good
relations" between Russian and
Germany and Soviet quarters In
Belgrade said the summoning Of
the ministers definitely was link.
ed with the new military de-
velopments in Rumania and
Hungary"
(There was no direct comment
Immediately from Moscow. Rus
sian troops have been reported
massed on the Bessarabian bor-
der, next to Rumania. The Pc
Rod of compulsory training for
men in the Russian air force was
extended from three to four
years yesterday
Behind the wall of secrecy in
Rumania, meanwhile, Germany's
Balkan force ESTIMATED by some
observers at as high rs 600,-
900 men) was said to be con-
solidating its position along the
frontier with Russia, along the
Danube facing Bulgaria and in
cities only a few miles from
Yugoslavia.
Bulgaria, where the Bulgarian
Communist party distributed
leaflets saying that "Soviet Rus
STA will not allow a single Ger
man soldier to set foot on Bull.
garia," often has been mention.
ed As q possible path for a Ger
man drive on the Dardanelles or
Greece. Bulgaria's neighbor,
Yugoslavia, was pictured as un-
comfortable over this possibility
but German quarters in Belgrade
asserted Yugoslavia would be
treated as another Sweden II
she behaved"
(Sweden's neutrality was not
disturbed when German forces
invaded neighboring Norway last
spring.
Reports Of military activity
in the Balkans continued to flow
through diplomatic channels de-
spite the suspension of interna-
tional telephone communications
in Rumsnia and the hating Of
even fast international trains at
that c%ountry's border.
Reports reaching Ruse, Bull
garia, across the Danube from
Giurgiu, Rumania, said the Ger
man troops had been forced to
contend with disorders which
had their inception in wide
spread sabotage by railroad
workers in the so-called Com
munist wing" of the Rumanian
iron guard.
Strong Nazi motorized COL
umns were said to have reach
ed Giurgiu with considerable
quantities Of bridge
equipment and a large corps Of
engineers. These reports said
the Rumanian military was or.
dered to place an especially
heavily guard on all bridges and
railroad authorities were told by
the Germans to keep the line
from Bucharest to Constanta, Ru--
mania's Black Sea port, in per-
feet condition for possible emer-
gency use.
The Rumanisns were reported
to have mined the Danube at
Galatz, scent of several frontier
clashes between Rumanians and
Russians, and under German
direction were said to have be-
gun work of converting the old
Danube outlet from Cerna- Voda
to Constanta into a navigable
canal.
Diplomatic circles said they
regarded the latter development
as indirect confirmation of per-
sistent reports that the Russians
had seized the Sulina Canal, the
only navigable river outlet,
which Is far south of the Russian
frontier in Rumania.
"a report published in the
Turkish press said Germany had
moved troops into the Balkans
because she feared a British at
tack from that direction. Italy,
these reports said, was regard
ed as good as out of the war;
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