MENACE OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 7

MENACE OF WAR

RED CONCENTRATION

THE BESSARABIAN TROUBLE

EXCITEMENT IN EUMANIA.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 29th July.

The "Daily Express" says the Rumanian War Ministry has stopped army leave and mobilised the reserve. Officers have begun to concentrate troops in Bessarabia, in which martial law has been declared.

There is excitement throughout Rumania owing to the appearance of Russian warships off the coast of Bessarabia. They have ostensibly come for the purpose of manoeuvres, but large forces of Reds are concentrating simultaneously on the frontier.

Mr. H. 6. Greenwell, a special correspondent for the "Daily Express" on the Buseo-Bumanian frontier, writing last month, said that Russia was waging a silent war against Rumania, by midnight marches of troops and other forms of pressure and intimidatory propaganda. He expressed the opinion that this might continue indefinitely, or suddenly set the Balkans aflame. He added that Rumania's view was that Russia was bluffing, and was not ready lor an offensive this year. Bessarabia., the land lying between the Dneister and Pruth rivers, is ancient Rumanian territory, but was ceded to Jiussia early in the nineteenth cenMov'v O re€toration to Rumania in Marcfc, 1918, was one of the consequents of the Great War