BALKAN MENACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10

BALKAN MENACE.

HUNGARY'S THREAT.

Treatment Of Minorities In Rumania. SITUATION " SERIOUS." United Press Association. —Copyright. I (Received 10 a.m.) LOXDOX, September 15. Count Csafey, Foreign Minister of Hungary, has issued a warning concerning the situation of the Hungarian minority in Rumania, which, he said, he considered to be "serious," states the Budapest correspondent. of the Associated Press of Great Britain. The Minister said that Rumania's answer regarding Hungary's proposals for a minority pact was still delayed, and added: "Behind the unshakeable and determined will of our leading statesmen is the Hungarian Army, which is daily increasing, both in weapons and determination, to protect the soil of its working people." A dispatch from Paris says the Rumanian Legation in that city has called upon all Rumanians of military age to return home from France immediately. A German official is reported to be on his way to Rumania to secure for Germany more essential commodities, states a Daventry broadcast. Britain, France and the Xetherlands are operating actively on the Rumanian market. The price of wheat has risen by 30 per cent, and that of barley has doubled.

A message from Rome says that Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece are reported to be negotiating for an agreement which will guarantee Balkan peace.

A British Ministry of Information communique states that the Rumanian Legation is calling up reservists resident in Britain.