SABOTAGE IN RUMANIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 238, 21 July 1941, Page 6

SABOTAGE IN RUMANIA.

INCREASING IN THE OILFIELDS. $ FOUR. CITIES DEVASTATED. (Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The Istanbul correspondent ot the “Daily Telegraph’’ says it is reliably reported that the Rumanian Government is seriously concerned about the ever-growing effects of sabotage, especially in the oilfields, in which socalled Communists are co-operating with the Soviet agents responsible. It now appears that fifth-columnists, not Soviet bombers, were responsible for most of the devastation at Ploesti, Tulcea, Sulina and Constanta. The lastnamed is described as one huge area of ruins. Sabotage and other co-opera-tion with the Russians cannot be the work of Communists because all are either exterminated or in gaol. The majority of the Rumanians have not forgiven General Antonescu for subserving Rumania’s true interests to those of Germany. The Rumanian High Command has issued only five communiques since the outbreak of hostilities, apparently because the carnage among Rumanian troops is so great and their progress so disproportionate that they cannot risk publio reaction. The Moscow radio has all day been calling on the Serbs and Croats to •join tlie great army of saboteurs. “Do any damage you can. Derail trains, blow up bridges, destroy factories, cut telephone wires. Arise and overthrow the foreign usurpers!”