NEARER MILITARY PACT
RUSSIA & YUGOSLAVIA
COUNTER TO AXIS PRESSURE IN BALKANS I * LONDON, July 27. The "Daily Express" says that Rus- ! sia and Yugoslavia have moved a step nearer a military pact with the dispatch by 4he Soviet of eight delegates !to Belgrade, professedly to resume | trade talks. But under cover of I these talks Russia and Yugoslavia have I been discussing a military alliance as a counter to the increasing Axis pressure in the Balkans.
It is reported from Belgrade that a wheat shortage in Yugoslavia is hindering trade talks between Yugoslavia and Germany. Germany insists that Yugoslavia deliver her remaining quota of 3500 truck-loads of wheat, plus a further allotment of 20,000 truck-loads of wheat and 10,000 of maize this year.
The "Politika" says:' "The crop is so bad that we cannot deliver even a part of these demands without endangering our own needs. We shall be short of wheat in February and March unless we take drastic measures. It will be impossible, also, to export cattle fodder this year."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 7
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