REPEATED DEMANDS.
THE ARRESTED BRITONS. SITUATION IS DETERIORATING. LONDON, October 3. The British Legation in Bucharest announced that a British subject, Mr Percy Ciark, who is president of an engineering firm in Ploesti, was kidnapped by three men who tricked him into leaving his hotel in Athenee place in the centre of Bucharest. The Legation is now convinced that Mr A. Millar, a highly-placed official of the Astra Roumano Oil Company, has also been kidnapped. The Rumanian authorities declared that they were unable to act and the Iron Guard denies any knowledge of the kidnapping. The Legation’s repeated demands for trial or release of the five Britons arrested a week ago remain unanswered. The Berlin radio says that the Rumanian Foreign Minister (M. Sturdza) rejected the protest of the British Minister (Sir Reginald Hoare) against the arrests and accused him of being involved in sabotage plans in which those arrested were implicated. M. Sturdza asked Sir Reginald Hoare to resign. The Bucharest correspondent of “The Times” says that thugs on the frontiers are bullying departing Biitons. The strongest possible pressure from Britain is necessary to meet the situation, which is deteriorating.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 6
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191REPEATED DEMANDS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 6
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