ARMISTICE TERMS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 218, 14 September 1944, Page 5

ARMISTICE TERMS

RUMANIA'S PEACE

Twelve Divisions To Fight For Allies

Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 13. Moscow radio announced to-day that. Russia had signed an armistice with Rumania on behalf of all the United Nations. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Mr. Harriman, British and j United States Ambassadors respectively, took part in the talks, and I Prince Stirbey was one of the Ru- [ manian signatories. j Details of the armistice terms-were broadcast by Moscow radio and reveal that Rumania will pay Russia £75,000,000 worth of goods over six years as compensation for the damage suffered by Russia.- 'I he Rum-.mo-Russian frontier will be that fixed on June 2S, 1940, which means the return of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to Russia. Transylvania will be restored to Rumania. Rumania will put into the field under Allied command at least 12 infantry divisions with reinforcements to fight against Germany and Hungary. All Allied property in Rumania j will be restored and racial laws I repealed. The Rumanian Minister of State, M.. Patrascanu, when asked about the fate of the former Prime Minister, General Antonescu, replied: "He will be tried either by a Rumanian or an international tribunal. He is in safe keeping and could not escape even in a dream." SAIPAN HORRORS JAP. SELF-DESTRUCTION Rec. noon. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13. Ten thousand Japanese civilians killed themselves on Saipan, said Captain Milton Sperling, of the U.S. Marines, addressing 20,000 shipbuilding employees. He added that husbands cut their wives' throats and mothers stabbed their own children, while men shot, stabbed and bludgeoned their parents. Some committed suicide with hand gren-! ades, and others jumped from cliffs. | It was inconceivable to the American mind, yet it was typical of Japanese psychology. "Japanese are fanatics who refuse to surrender even when the situation is entirely hopeless," he declared.. BRITISH PLAN WORLD LABOUR ORGANISATION Rec. ,12.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 13. The British Labour party announced that the party had decided to create an International Labour Socialist Preparatory Committee to facilitate the resumption of contacts, exchange information and undertake the study of the problems associated with the organisation of principles and policy of the future international association of democratic Labour socialist parties. UNCENSORED NEWS ACCESS FOR ALL NATIONS Rec. 9.30. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. ■ Senator R. A. Taft (Ohio) introduced a resolution in the Senate j designed to secure the inclusion in j all peace treaties of specific coven-1 ants requiring each nation to give j all others the same right to trans-1 mit news uncensored, .. nd also to give eaual access to communications facilities at the same transmission rates as enjoyed by the nations' c.vr. Press and radio.