Evening star., 1941-04-21
.Rumania Reported
Dangerously Near
NewCiviI Strife
Huneurions Interpret
Antonescu Statement
AS Break With Axis
By the Associated Press.

BUDAPEST, April 81 Hungarian
circles said yesterday that German
occupied Rumania was dangerously
near a new outbreak of civil strife
atS interpreted strongly -worded
patriotic message by Rumanian
Premier Ion Antonescu to his people
as indicating a clean break with the
axis.
The RumanianS were reported in
q Transylvanian dispatch to have
halted traffic along the Bulgarian
and Hungarian borders, with shots
heard day and night by guards
shooting any one who attempted to
leave the country.
CThe Hungarian radio yester-
day said Premier Antonescu is in
open conflict with the Iron Guard
and that he has caused the execu-
ton of several members of the
organization because they were
carrying arms, a dispatch from
Bern, Switzerland, said.
(The Iron Guards radio was
reported to have called Gen.
Antonescu an enemy of the
state as dangerous as former
King Carol, who was forced into
abd!cation and exile by the Iron
Guard last September)
Rumania to Rise Again.
Gen. Antonescu, in an Easter
message Saturday yesterday was
the Orthodox Easter) spoke of Ru-
manian reverses and loss of terri
tory, but declared Justice and Gods
love will save us and the Rumanian
people will rise again from DEATH"
He also said the Rumanian Army
was ready to fight and quoted an
order to his army command that
"it is the holy duty of the army to
wipe out the shameful blot of 1940."
II the premier's message meant
that he has broken with the axis,
some Hungarians asserted he was
running the risk of being crushed
between the millstones of the Iron
Guard and the axis powers.
Inf1ammatory leaflets strongly
reminiscent of former Iron Guard
writings again are being distributed
by the thousands, Hungarian re-
ports said.
Gen. Antonescu, who last week
threatened immediate execution for
terroristS after uncovering a plot
to assassinate him during Easter
week, Saturday night published a
decree requiring all printers to reg
lister with police every page printed
by them. A f1ve-year sentence was
threatened for failure to comply.
The Hungarian press said Gen.
Antonescu could not invalidate by
armed force the axis Vienna arbi-
tration of last year which handed
parts of Transylvania to Hungary.
Hungarian circles expressed the
opinion that Gen. Antonescu was
trying to divert political unrest
and increasing food difficulties into
channels of anti Hungarian re-
wisconsin.
Meanwhile, informed Budapest
circles said the axis powers already
are laying plans for Vienna con-
ference of Southeastern European
states after the Balkan war to make
final decisions on disposition of dis
puted territorial questions as we'll as
to promulgate new order" for the
area.
Territorial Problems First.
Balkan interests are concentrated
first on the solution of territorial
problems and second on the threat
ening situation in Rumania.
1t was regarded here as possible
that Dragisa Cvetkovic and Ak
sander Cincar-Markovic, former
Yugoslav Premier and Foreign Min
lister who were ouSted for aligning
their country with the axis, might
be invited to the Vienna conference
to represent pro-axis Serbia. They
were expected to try to improve
peace conditions the axis plans to
impose upon their country.
The Yugoslav Legation here is be-
ing liqujdated, Minister Rashic hav-
ing air lady flown to Moscow.
Budapest's complete blackout, in
troduced when the Balkan war
started, ended last night.
All war prisoners born in former
Yugoslav territory now held by
Hungary have been sent home by
German military authorities. Be-
tween 1000 and 5000 already have
gone.
Sroat prisoners held by the Hun
garian Army are being returned to
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