REPORTED SETTLED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 2, 2 July 1940, Page 8

REPORTED SETTLED

FRONTIER CLASHES

RUMANIA AND HUNGARY

CONFUSION CAUSED

REFUGEES IN BESSARABIA

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. I (Received July 2, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. The Bucharest correspondent oi the British United Press says that Russian warships are reported off Rumanian ports. A Russian General Staff communique stated that some clashes occurred when Soviet motorised troops overtook retiring Rumanian units, but that incidents generally have been settled satisfactorily. The Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that officials admitted that no announcement of a general Hungarian mobilisation is to be expected "because that term is out of date in modern tactics and also because the I same result has already been l^chieved." Harhe Bucharest correspondent of the United Press says that 30 casHffties are reported to have resulted Btrom clashes, on the Rumanian-Hun-garian frontier. The semi-official ■ Hungarian newspaper "Magyarorszag" stated that the Hungarian and Rumanian troops clashed because the Ru- / manians crossed the frontier while falling back before^ the Russian forces occupying northern Bukovina. Train-loads of Rumanian wounded who are stated to have been wounded In clashes with Russian troops on the ■ pruth. River, arrived in Bucharest. The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that thousands of Russian parachutists, including shock troops and members of the Ogpu, were dropped in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina today. Rumanian police are reported to have arrested thousands of civilians, as a precautionary measure against possible rioting. The pro-German newspaper "Curentul" accuses the Russians of planning the destruction of Rumanian oilfields from which Germany would otherwise obtain petrol. The Bucharest correspondent of "The Times" says that the advance of the Red Army has converted Bessarabia into a land of confusion in which roads to Rumania are choked with hapless refugees. Many Rumanian officials who only learnt by radio that the territories had been ceded to Russia had to fight their way to the Pruth River through armed mobs of local inhabitants and prisoners whom the invaders had released and encouraged to wreak vengeance against officials, loot the property of the wealthy, and maltrsat their* private enemies.