BRITONS FAST LEAVING RUMANIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 245, 15 October 1940, Page 8

BRITONS FAST LEAVING RUMANIA.

MORE NAZIS ARRIVE.

;U.S. Attache Denies Reports Of Soviet Moves.

United Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 11 a.m.; LOXDOX. Oct. 14.

■ British military and naval attache? .and staffs have departed for the Black .Sea port of Constanza en route to .Istanbul, accompanied by 30 members of the British colony. It is expected that the only Britons left in Rumania by the week-end will be 20 of the staff. A party of 150 British subjects, resident in Rumania, are expected to be .evacuated from C'onstanza to-day. Another British party of similar size is [expected to leave later in the week. • The five Britons who have been .detained by the Rumanians, including ;Mr. A. Millar, are understood to be specifically charged with pouring acid • into oil storage tanks, spoiling huge quantities of oil destined for Germany and necessitating the chemical testing ;of tank wagons before their departure •to Germany. ■ About 3000 more German troops, ;nlostlv anti-aircraft crews, have arrived ;at Galatz. Strategic Points Controlled. It now appears that German troops are in full control of the Rumanian oilfields and all strategic points, savs" the -correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" ,in the Balkans. A constant stream of 'new arrivals bound for the Danube •delta is Reported from numerous points.

itelt is estimated that between 20,000 30,000 German soldiers -have now arrived - int. Rumania, and more will follow. Officers are accommodated in the best hotel in Bucharest, and their behaviour is already causing much resentment among citizens. The death a 1 pedestrian', knocked down by .an officers' car, caused an angry demonstration by a large crowd. The German Press to-day tells its readers the old familiar stoiy in regard to its entry into Rumania, that Germany just managed to forestall a British attack on the Rumanian oilfields. Italian engineers are reported to have arrived at Constanza. A few German submarines are also reported to life in the Black Sea, having been carried there and assembled. Position of Soviet. Informed quarters in Bucharest, says the Associated Press, state that Russia is concentrating troops in the Galatz area on the Besearabian border, and around Cernauti, in Bukovina, which has been converted into a vast Russian Army encampment. It is stated in Bucharest that Russian monitors recently sank two Rumanian naval patrol boats on the Danube, and Russian river ;, ; warcraft stationed in Bessarabia are reported to have penetrated Rumanian territorial waters. An official Bucharest statement says that a Russian destroyer' sank a Rumanian sloop which -.-unwittingly entered prohibited Russian waters in the Black Sea last Friday. The destroyer rescued, the crew - and .passengers, and the incident is regarded is closed. However, Colonel Ratay, United States military attache, declared: "There is nothing to justify reports, -of vast Russian' troop movements, _of which none | hac.occurred in the past.few weeks." j