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NAZIS IN BALKANS ADVANCING APACE PLANS IN RUMANIA HOSTILE TO NEIGHBOURS TURK-GREEK EFFORTS CHECK SPREAD OF WAR (KI.'C, Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wirolws.) Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 21. Information reaching London indicates that the German offensive plans in Rumania and Bulgaria are continuing. They can have no meaning but a hostile one for neighbouring countries, whose anxieties are well understood in London. The reaffirmation of mutual loyalty between Turkey and Greece is interore ted in London as a measure of their determination to spare no effort to prevent the spread of hostilities in the Balkans. Britain, for her part, is no less anxious that there should be no further disturbances of peace in the Balkans, and is determined on complete loyalty to her engagements to
give the fullest assistance in resisting aggression in a region in which Rumania has already provided an object lesson to the world of the folly >f trusting German assurances.
A message from Budapest yesterday --tated that all shipping on the Danube was stopped while the Germans threw pontoon bridges across the river from Giurgiu, on the Rumanian side, to Rustochuk, on the Bulgarian side, which the Germans afterwards tested by crossing in loaded lorries to Bulgaria, returning to Rumania before dark.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20487, 22 February 1941, Page 5
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