Red Troops Occupy Balkan Territory

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 153, 29 June 1940, Page 9

Red Troops Occupy Balkan Territory

CONTROL OF DANUBE

Rumania Orders General Mobilisation Of Forces

WAR COUNCIL SET UP

(United Press Association.— Copyright.—Rec. I p.m.) LONDON. June 28. that he - British Unted PrCBS correspondent at Bucharest states hat Russian troops began marching into the territory demanded from Rumania at 2 p.m. They occupied, firstly, the capital, of Danube Bukovina a "d the ports at the mouth of the . The Moscow radio stated that at II a.m. the Rumanian Minister delivered the Rumanian reply agreeing to the Soviet demands and asking for a few days* postponement of full occupation. Molotoff stated that a few hours' delay might be granted. A Bucharest official statement announces that general mobilisaUon of the Rumanian Army, Navy and Air Force was ordered ror midnight. It was later reported from Moscow that Soviet troops had .occupied Cernauti, Akfcerman and Kishinev in the afternoon. Bucharest sources report that the Russian Legation states troops in considerable numbers have now occupied the capitals of Bessarabia and Bukovina and will occupy all Bessarabia to Mie mouth of the Danube, and Bukovina to a point on the River »uceava, 40 miles south of the present frontier. When Russian 'planes arrived at Kishinev and Czernowitz the pilots showed the authorities maps indicating the new boundaries, and officially announced the incorporation of the territories marked. Ki T? 9" 01 dismissed si Ministers who are reported to have opposed full acceptance of the Russian demands. A decree imposes three days of national mourning. King Carol has appointed a special War Council, states another Bucharest message. A report from Belgrade states that 100 Russian Army corps were reported to have been massed on the Bessarabian border.