DISMEMBEREB POLAND

Evening Star, Issue 23481, 23 January 1940, Page 8

DISMEMBEREB POLAND

CORRIDOR TO RUMANIAN FRONTIER GERMAN TROOPS TAKE OVER LONDON, January 22. The ‘ News Chronicle’s ’ Budapest correspondent says the truth of the reports concerning movements of German lorries and tanks to East Galicia appears to be that German troops occupied the railway to Rumania, along which Russia is handing over a corridor 26 miles wide to Germany. The latter believes she can put the railway from Rumania in technical order and eliminate Polish sabotage. The Gestapo has replaced the Ogpu throughout southern East Galicia. German troops are reported also at Nadworna, 26 miles from Hungary. General mobilisation under German officers is expected shortly in Slovakia. Hungary has increased the frontier guards on her Russian and German borders. The ‘ News Chronicle’s ’ Moscow correspondent says Russia ' promised Germany 800,000 tons of oil, mostly from Galician fields.

DOMINIONS OFFICE

A NEW APPOINTMENT LONDON, January 22. A new office of Deputy-Under-Secre-tary of State for Dominion Affairs has been created, to which Sir Eric jMachtig has been appointed. [Sir Eric Machtig has been Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Dominions Office since 1936. He has also been a member of the Overseas Settlement Board and chairman of the Overseas Settlemnt Committee since 1936. Sir Eric, who is aged 51, entered the Colonial Office in 1912 and transferred to the Dominions Office in 1930.]

INTERNAL EXPLOSION

DENSE SMOKE FROM U-BOAT “‘ SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE LONDON, January 22. An internal explosion occurred on a U-boat after the firing of a torpedo at the Norwegian steamer Notos (2,712 tons) off St. Kilda Island. The torpedo missed. The Norwegians saw dense smoke from the submarine, which disappeared suddenly.

WINTER IN EUROPE

GREAT FREEZE CONTINUES LONDON, January 22. The great freeze throughout Europe persists. Small islands off the Danish coast are isolated and food is being dropped by air. Twenty thousand Bulgarians formed a railroad army to clear the lines of snowdrifts. An avalanche overwhelmed a party of Bulgarian skiers training for the winter Olympics and killed the country’s champion.