WARLIKE MOVEMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 8

WARLIKE MOVEMENTS

HUNGARY’S MOBILISATION. TROOFS FACE RUMANIANS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) Received March 21, 2.0 p.m. LONDON, March 21. The London Times Budapest correspondent says: Partial Hungarian mobilisation continues, but computation of the numbers is impossible. Complete mobilisation may shortly he decreed. Gei man-ltalian material brought in in 19 id includes 5000 trucks, thousands of motor-cars capable of mounting machine-guns, and infantry equipment, apparently from Austria and brand new. The morale of the troops, however, is poor, the men being dejected. Perhaps five per cent, of the total population have been called to the colours. Cars and farm-wagons everywhere have been requisitioned. Railway passenger traffic is disorganised and everything is directed against Rumania. Hungarian and Rumanian troops are now face to face. Poland has diplomatically intervened, but the outlook is not encouraging.

An inspired statement explaining the military measures states: “In view of tlie Rumanian concenti-ation on the frontier of forces additional to normal effectives, Hungary has taken similar measures which are the customary reply to unusual troop movements in neighbouring countries.”