GERMANS’ ROUTE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 135, 4 March 1941, Page 7

GERMANS’ ROUTE

Streams Of Troops On Second Day AVOIDING TURKISH ' FRONTIER

LONDON, .March 21

With hundreds of fighters and bombers displaying the “crooked cross” in terrorization patrols over Sofia and other big centres of population, German troops have been pouring into Bulgaria all day long at three points— Russe, Lorn, and Vidin —over pontoon bridges strung across the Danube. Those entering at Russe are reported to be taking a route through Trnovo and Plovdiv, avoiding the Maritza Valley, which touches the Turkish frontier.

The Sofia correspondent of the British United Press says that tlie Germans are keeping as far as possible from Turkish territory, with the spec!fie object of not antagonizing Turkey.

The armies crossing at Lorn and Vidin made a bee-line for Sofia, whence, according to reports, they are marching south-westward to the point where the Struma River enters Greece through a tortuous pass. It is this movement of troops which has given rise to a number of reports that the Germans are marching on Greece. A stream of Gorman transport planes is seen heading eastward from Budapest. Escorted by motor-cyclists, followed by a stream of military lorries, the main body of the German military staff arrived at Sofia early in the afternoon. A Hungarian semi-official news agency describes the German entrv to Bulgaria as a token occupation Berlin radio says that the entry should not cause surprise, because it is merely a reaction against Britain’s attempts to incite Turkey and thus create a war zone in the. Balkans. The