DIPLOMATIC TALKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 178, 29 July 1940, Page 8

DIPLOMATIC TALKS.

Nazi Troops Reported To Be Moving Eastward. DEMANDS ON RUMANIA. Unitnl Press Association.— Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, -ruly 28. It is Htmotmct'il in Hiichiircsf that M. frnt'cncu luih postponed piling t<» Moscow, where he will net as Ambassiulor, until August 10. The delay is considered signitiranl as probably il, will enable him to go there with full details of Hitler's plans for south-eastern Kurope. Soviet. quarters in Bucharest believe tluit nothing will he done to change Rumania's frontiers he fore n full diplomatic exchange has taken place between Berlin, Home, Moscow and Bucharest. Reliable quarters confirm reports nf ficruuiu troop movements from western (icrninnv eastward, including activity in Poland.' A message from Berlin says Hitler received the Slovak Ministers, M. 'l'i-o and M. Tuka, this nfternooii. Rumania and Bulgaria. flermany ha< instructed Rumania to negotiate with Bulgaria and Hungary. according to reports circulating in ollieial quarters in Budapest, following Hitler's interviews at Berchtcsgndcu with the Rumanian Prime Minister, Dr. (iiguitu, and the Foreign Minister, M. Manoileseu, and later with the Bulgarian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Professor Kiloff und M. Popoff. After the talks the Rumanian statesmen left for Rome; arrd the Bulgarians, who had conferred for two hours with Hitler, returned to Sofia. In Budapest, it is understood Hitler told tlie Rumanian delegates that negotiations must start as early as possible in order to maintain pence in southeastern Kurope. It is reported that he pressed Humeiiin -to eede the southern lJobrudja te Bulgn: in and Transylvania' to Hungary. Hitler is nlso said to have expressed a desire for closer relations among Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, even to the extent of a military accord.