LIGHTNING STROKE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 152, 28 June 1940, Page 7

LIGHTNING STROKE

Russians Move Into Rumania BESSARABIA CEDED Culmination Of Swiftest Coup Of Any Dictator CAROL MEEKLY YIELDS

kUzttad ?-£» Ajaonaricn-—Ceoyrtxia.— tq.-tt > LONDON, June 27. icri<i Soc-?3 to~n%ht _ntarchins into Bessarabia. their i «_.rry ©eing the Cttisasasion of the swiftest coup of any dictator. aey entered territory whjdi Runsania took frotn Russia in tire j -ast war a :t* e«sn of the deirvery of die uldzgatum it j f?P«ars iUmi iaey crccaed die fronder even before Kicg Carol i rerr--lily accepted it. • n arr7T '* r ' w *- rei ' ess sCa:ec i *hat Rassia save Rsnnania until . , p : =- to »free to give up all territory maisfv by c as well a control of Coas€aaza (oa the BSacx sea> and the Daaobjaa port of Tukea. , The Sce£ani agency representative in Bucharest say? Mokrtoff I demandled restitution of Bessarabia and die cession of northern I Buiovtaa ay Romania so the V S-S.R. The Bucharest correspondent of tie Associated Press of i Ureas Srrtaro says it a reported front Ceraaud that four Russian j planes were fered on and one *u shot down. Others bombed i a nearby village. i Tae Rcmaaaa Grand Council, says die Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain, decided to I accede to tee Soviet uldmafuzn and cede Bessarabia and North Q * cvica * The gictmalisai, it is reported W33 to expire a.i 8 n.m. tO^CST. Rumania decided to yield, bat pleaded for feme and ordered ? pfeca u»£^o"iT%^,ry isso^ikzsstsioii. T*? reported from Bucharest that Rumania : accepted Soviet ohoaataa for die cession of Bessarabia and I Besian declare that Germany j® "dEsnterested" in tae mtaMSsea. -■