War Cloud Reappears

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 198, 30 July 1924, Page 5

War Cloud Reappears

Rumania and Russia PROSPECT OF SERIOUS TROUBLE BOTH NATIONS CONCEN TRATING TROOPS. [By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.] London, July 29. Th© “Daily Express” says the Rumanian War Ministry has stopped army leave, mobilised reserve officers and begun to concentrat© troops in Bessarabia, wherein martial law has been declared.

The “Express’s” Bucharest correspondent adds that there is excitement throughout Rumania owing to the appearance of the Black Sea fleet of Russian warships off the coast of Bessarabia, ostensibly for th© purpose of manoeuvres, but large forces of Reds are concentrating simultaneously on the frontier.—(A. and N.Z.)

Sine© th© collapse of th© RussoRumanian conference at Vienna on April 2, before a 'Single agreed subject of discussion had been touched, the prospect of serious trouble over Bessarabia has hung over Rumania like a cloud. Each disputant declares that the other is mobilising troops and otherwise preparing for war. King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, accompanied by Foreign Minister Duca and a Considerable party left Bucharest on April 5 for a round of visits to western capitals having as the main objective the building up of a more favourable international attitude toward Rumania at a juncture when the country is threatened with a Russian war over the Bessarabian question. At Paris the royal party wa 8 received with a display of diplomatic and mili_ tary splendour not witnessed there on a similar occasion since the last visit of Edward VII. and it was forthwith announced that a defensive treaty was in th© making, on th© same lines as the Franco-Czechoslovak treaty concluded after th© visit of President Masaryk and Premier Benes to the French capital last year.