JUGOSLAV BORDER

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23001, 22 April 1940, Page 9

JUGOSLAV BORDER

Movements Of Troops NAZI PLOTTING IN BELGRADE (tJITITED PBES3 ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received April 20, 5.50 p.m.) ' LONDON, April 19. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that Italian troops, who are now wearing steel helmets, are unusually active on the Jugoslav border, where the Germans are also massing. _ . The arrest of Dr. Milan Stojadinovitch, a former Prime Minister, by the Jugoslav authorities, has been announced in Belgrade. ■ The arrest followed a search of his house, where documents were found linking him with the Nazis. Dr. Stojadinovitch was generallyregarded as the central figure in the pro-German movement in Jugoslavia. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that it is reliably reported that a plot to overthrow the Government, coinciding with the entry of German troops, was revealed shortly after the arrest of Dr. Stoyadinovitch. The former Premier’s brother, who was a former member of Parliament and a former director of the newspaper “Vreme,” was also ar-' rested. Dr. Stoyadinovitch is being interned in the Serbian town of Rudnik. The measures for the stringent control of the activities of foreigners announced in Rumania yesterday mean that foreigners must present .their passports to the police within 24 hours and leave immediately their visas expire. Extensions of time limits for visas may be granted only in exceptional circumstances. _No foreigner may leave his specified residence without a police permit. He is also forbidden to possess arms, war material, or cameras. LOW COUNTRIES’ PRECAUTIONS MANY ARRESTS IN BELGIUM NETHERLANDS DECLARES STATE OP SIEGE (Received April 20, 5.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The Prime Minister of Belgium (M. Pier lot) revealed that several thousand foreigners had been arrested and interned. The round-up had made necessary the construction of a new concentration camp. “Belgium is determined to defend her territory. An invasion would not be profitable because the country is defended by the strongest lines in its history,” he declared. . The police at Euperi discovered a Nazi organisation collecting old metal for dispatch to Germany. A search of a German resident’s house revealed 18 cases ready for export. The Antwerp newspaper" “Metropole” states that the 60,000 members of the Belgian Communist Party include 6000 foreigners. . The establishment of a state of siege throughout Holland, as in ; the Netherlands East Indies, was de-. dared in an official broadcast from The Hague. ■ The Netherlands Prime Minister (Dr. D. J, de Geer), in a broadcast, speech defining the Netherlands’ attitude, said: “The Government, in

the interests of neutrality, has decided to extend the state- of siegt throughout the Netherlands.” The Prime Minister, whose broadcast wag relayed to the Netherlandi East Indies, said that, the Netherlands were ready to place their services at the disposal of the belligerents. Their peace palace was .open to them. The Netherlands would resist with arms any attempt to ex-; tend protective assistance. The same applied to their overseas possessions. Commenting on the Netherlands Prime Minister’s declaration of a state of siege, the “Yorkshire Post” says: “Dr. de Geer is determined to give Germany no excuse for invading Holland on the-pretext that the Dutch were about to invite the Allies in. If Herr Hitler resolves to strike at Holland he will not be deterred by lack of excuse, but at least he knows now that Holland’s small but efficient army and powerful natural defences will be awaiting him, resolute and prepared.”