DISORDERS IN RUMANIA

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 239, 4 July 1940, Page 10

DISORDERS IN RUMANIA

Difficult Situation

REPORTED APPEAL TO MUSSOLINI

Hungarian Army Measures

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received July 4, 1.50 a.m)

LONDON, July 3

The Bucharest correspondent of the /Associated Press of Great Britain states that spreading anti-Jew-ish disorders in Rumania are hindering King Carol's endeavours to save his kingdom. Iron Guard (proNazi) extremists are reported to have inspired riots, against which the Government apparently is making little headway in spite of police reinforcements.

In Berlin the official German news agency says that King Carol has urgently appealed to Mussolini and the German Minister, Herr Fabricus. had a long audience with King Carol. The Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press reports that the Hungarian military preparations have reached a high peak".

Blackout lights arc strung along the streets, and all omnibuses have been requisitioned for the transport of troops, the correspondent says. Addressing a meeting of the Government Party after an anjournment of Parliament for the summer vacation, the Hungarian ' Prime Minister, Count Teleki, said: “The Government will maintain a constant watch on the situation, which is changing 'daily. Hungary’s standpoint is based on the triple interests of Hungary, Europe and Christianity.”

A Rumanian communique states that the evacuation of Bessarabia continued yesterday without an incident of any importance. The Rumanian troops are along the line from Bolgrad to Lunga, Comrat, Crasna, Saratagalbena, Lapusna, Cornesti, Falesti and Zaicani. The Rumanian Prime Minister, M. Tatareseu, in a statement to the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, said that Bessarabia was and always woul'd remain a Rumanian province. Rumania would carry out her undertaking with the Soviet. M. Tatarescu appealed to the country to unite round King Carol. The representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina read statements affirming that the two territories would remain Rumanian in spite of their temporary vicissitudes.