JUGOSLAV TROOP MOVEMENTS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23299, 8 April 1941, Page 7

JUGOSLAV TROOP MOVEMENTS

Hungarian Border

Reinforced

BALKAN REACTION TO ATTACK

(Received April 7, 10 p.m.) (U.P.A.) LONDON, April 7. The official Hungarian News Agency says it is reported that strong contingents of Jugoslav troops are massed on the Hungarian frontier and reinforcements are rapidly moving up to the Drave river. Large numbers of bombers are concentrated at nearby airfields. A radio announcement heard in Berne stated that Rumanig has ordered general mobilisation. It is also reported that the Rumanian Government has formally protested to Jugoslavia against attacks by Jugoslav aeroplanes, Bulgaria and Hungary have ordered complete black-outs, and express trains from Bucharest have been severely restricted.

According to Rumanian # reports, Jugoslav aircraft ■ raided points in Rumania and Jugoslav artillery fired across the Danube into Rumanian territory, killing one man, The Rumanian Government has protested to Jugoslavia.

General Antonescu has declared that he is maintaining order in Rumania. The Istanbul correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that the Turkish Cabinet met in Ankara. A responsible official declared: “There is nothing to get excited about.”

Reuter’s correspondent in Ankara says that the German Ambassador (Herr von Papen) assured the Turkish Prime Minister (Dr..Saydam) that Turkey need find ho cause for alarm in the latest Balkan developments, but Germany’s invasion of Jugoslavia and Greece has caused widespread feelings of disgust, The Ankara radio, condemning this latest aggression, said that the Axis had often expressed its desire to keep peace in the Balkans, but the most powerful partner had brought death and destruction. -f the German excuse was that British forces were in Greece, it would convince no one. After recalling the “ancient history’’ of the occupation of Rumania and the more recent infiltration into Bulgaria, the radio continued that had the armed attack by air on Great Britain yielded any result, the Axis would not have needed to use force in the Balkans. The Ankara radio also said that a Bulgarian official spokesman stated that - Bulgaria would continue her policy of remaining outside the war and watching developments. She would enter only if obliged to do so.

The Soviet press unanimously praises the efforts of Jugoslavia to preserve peace in the Balkans and gives prominence to, the recently-signed pact between Russia and Jugoslavia under which both countries pledge themselves to preserve a policy of friendly relations if either one is attacked by a third State.

The Moscow radio stated that the Russian-Jugoslav treaty would operate for five years and if it was not denounced a year before, then it would operate for a second five-year period. Newspaper and radio comment in ;Moscow about the-pact between Russia and Jugoslavia is very favourable. The clause under which each country will maintain a policy of the strictest friendship if the other is the victim of aggression is particularly emphasised. The newspaper “Pravda” states; “General Simovic’s Government emphatically enjoys the widest popular support. The treaty is a signal instrument for furthering mutually friendly relations.”

The newspaper “Izvestia” says: “The new Jugoslav Government’s efforts to preserve pea'ee could not fail to arouse Soviet sympathy.’’

NOTES SENT BY GERMANY

CHARGES AGAINST GREECE

REPLY BY M, KORIZIS

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