Evening star., 1941-04-05

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An extraordinary session of
Premier Gen. DuSan Simovic's
cabinet ended in the early morn
ing hours and a semi-official
source said that "the critical
foreign question" had been dis
cusSed.
Telephone connections with
Bulgaria and Rumania were sew
cred. 1t was difficult to get calls
through to Germany and Italy
and only diplomatic calls were
accepted for Hungary.
Plane Squadrons Over Belgrade.
Souadrons of Yugoslav fighter
planes roared over Belgrade shortly
after noon and headed toward the
Hungarian border, where Adolf Hit
Ter is reported to have massed huge
NaZi forces.
The air force kept up constant
patrol of the northern and eastern
frontiers.
Premier Simovic ordered the gov
ernment to be ready to quit the
capital.
The most likely explosion point
apparently was the Hungarian
Yugoslav frontier.
One of the last passengers to get
across the Yugoslav Hungarian bor-
der was George Wadsworth, United
States Consul General to Jerusalem,
who was en- route to new post IN
Rome. After the closure OF the
Italian frontier he headed for Buda-
pest, reaching the Hungarian cap
ital today.
American authorities still were
trying to get Secretary Cavendish
Cannon of the Athens Legation and
his wife out of Yugoslavia. They
are on their way home.
War Press Bureau Set Up.
The Yugosiav military established
a War Press Bureau"
The United States Legation re-
manned open day and night. Amer
ican Minister Arthur Bliss Lane said
he was in constant contact with the
government of Premier Simovic.
having had Is separate interviews
with the Premier, Foreign Minister
and other cabinet members since
yesterday.
Mr.. Lane said the nature Of help
Yugoslavia sought from the United
States lis a military question
Premier Simovic's cabinet ended
its extraordinary our-and-a-hah-
hour meeting in the early morning
hours without issuing its long-ex-
pected declaration of foreign policy.
Some quarters said statement
might be forthcoming today.
Call to Arms Published.
Morning newspapers, meanwhile,
published a royal decree calling
100000 Yugoslavs to arms and
thousands of fighting men rushed to
the Kingdoms frontiers as British
travellers reaching here from Buda-
pest said Nazi troops were pouring
through Hungary toward the border
facing Yugoslavia.
King Peters order calling for gen.
eral mobilization of the entire mill
tary might of the kingdom of Yugo-
slavia" was issued April but made
public only last night. Although the
populace got its first formal notice
of the decree in the morning papers
it was obvious that every city and
hamlet in the land already was
calling every able-bodied man to
take his place in the army.
Many of the ministers leaving the
unprecedented cabinet meeting re-
manned at their Offices beside tele-
phones, seeming to expect important
news soon.
Fears that war might come "at
any hour now were based. informed
observers said, on the swift flow of
developments, including King Peters
proclamation and the ministers re-
fusal to discuss events which
prompted the cabinet session.
Travel Permits Necessary.
Police permission was necessary
for private train travel, since all rail
facilities were in the hands of the
military. Movement of freight
through Yugoslavia in the direction
of axis countries was halted.
German troops are massed on the
Yugoslav borders in Rumania and
Bulgaria and appeared in mechanical
force at new point: On the Hun
garian- -Yugoslav frontier at Szeged.
100 miles north Of this capital.
Hungarian newspapers said the
Yugoslavs had a full motorized diyi-
sion across from Mohacs, west Of
Szeged, and that Yugoslav engineers
(see YUGOsLAV, Page A-9)