THE NEW LINE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 12

THE NEW LINE

TROOPS' POSITIONS ON RIVERS

BERLIN SENSITIVE

HINTS OF TENSION WITH RUSSIA

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received July 4, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 3.

: A Rumanian General Staff com- ' munique says that Rumanian troops at noon occupied a line along the Suceava, Herta, and Prutu Rivers. . The evacuation of civilians was con- " tinuing, having been retarded earlier by bad weather. The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain points out that the official evacuation period ended at noon, and therefore the line referred to above is interpreted as the new Russo-Rumanian frontier. A day of mourning was observed throughout Rumania.

A correspondent of "The Times" on the German frontier says that the Wilhelmstrasse is extremely sensitive about any hint of increasing tension between Berlin and Moscow. Typical of this is the expulsion of Dr. Reto Caratasch, a notable correspondent of the Swiss newspaper "Neve Zuercher Zeitung," because he said that the Russian advance in Rumania had caused a certain amount of uneasiness in Germany. The German Press is now devoting a considerable,^ amount of space to the Balkans, and declares that Rumania has come to her senses at the last minute and that the cession of territories shows the irresistible spread of the process of reorganisation in Europe on new principles. It is emphasised that England's role throughout Europe is now finished.