SOVIET POSITION

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 138, 7 March 1941, Page 7

SOVIET POSITION

Further Rumours In Balkans ADVISED TO LEAVE

British Residents In Yugoslavia

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

March 6, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 5.

An Ankara message states that Germany is reported to have offered to replace Britain as Turkey’s guarantee against an attack by Russia. The German agency states that the Ambassador in Yugoslavia, Herr von Herren, yesterday had a conference with Croatian leaders at Zagreb, after which he returned to Belgrade. A Belgrade message states that the British Consulate advised Britons who are not doing urgent business to quit Yugoslavia. Women’ of the consular and legation staffs and their families are ready to leave.

The official German news agency says that the Rumanian leader, General’ Antonescu, and Field Marshal Goering arrived in Vienna' for economic discussions. General Antonescu returned to Bucharest this evening. Another German radio report says that a number of high Rumanian officials have arrived in Germany to study the German system of training. They will also visit the battlefields in the- west. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that Antonescu rushed to ' Vienna to confer with Goering because of a Russian ultimatum demanding that Rumania cede naval bases on the Black Sea. Rumanian Statement. LONDON, March 6. Referring to the meeting in Vienna, a communique issued in Bucharest sta'es that the talks related to political and economic questions and good relations between Germany and Rumania.