BALKAN ADVENTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 12

BALKAN ADVENTURE

HITLER WARNED

MEA OE ILII OMEN

JUGOSLAV [TALKS

[<By Telegrapfc—Press Association —Copyright,)

(Received February 15, 2 p.m.).

LONDON, February 14.

The Ankara radio warns Hitler not to attempt any Balkan adventure. "The truth,is that Germany is not as strong as she is reputed to be," declared the announcer!." "She needs the assistance of other countries for her planned' spring campaign in the Balkan peninsula^ which is reputed to bring bad luck to any prospective aggressor." Turkey has placed the liner Izmir at the disposal of the British Legation at Bucharest The departure of the ship is interpreted.as confirmation that Kumania will sever sea traffic with Turkey. The Rumanian Charge D'Affaires in London, M. Florescu, who has tendered his resignation to the Rumanian Government, said in an interview: "I have found the attitude of General Antonescu and the Government unreasonable. General Antonescu considers the German Government a friend and ally, but it is his master. I have complete faith in the final success of the ideals which Britain stands for." M; Florescu and M. Mirgu, counsellor at the Legation, have refused to act upon instructions to return to Rumania; The German.news agency says that the Rumanian Cabinet met under the presidency of General Antonescu. Wey.iriformed people state that a new poli-. tical constitution is being worked out and will be published soon. A dispatch from. Istanbul says travellers from Rumania report that the roofs and hotels in Constanza are bristling with anti-aircraft guns. The absence of military measures in Yugoslavia is interpreted in some quarters as meaning that Yugoslavia will agree to any demands Hitler makes, but the Belgrade correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is, thought that despite the pro-Axis leanings of some of the Yugoslav Ministers the people would resist any attempt to force them into the Axis camp. Immediate interest centres in the journey to Salzburg of the Yugoslav for instructions from Hitler. Diplomats in Belgrade say that they will discuss.'the passage of German troops down the valley of the Varda River, the historic road of conquest to Greece. ■'