REIGN OF TERROR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 January 1941, Page 8

REIGN OF TERROR

SHOOTINGS IN RUMANIA. IRON GUARD FACTIONS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7. According to news reaching the Bulgarian frontier bitter fighting has broken out between rival factions of the Iron Guard in Rumania, many of whom were killed.

Rumania has been cut off by telephone for the last three days, but stories of shooting, sabotage, and terror are trickling across the frozen Danube. Moderate members of the Iron Guard, who are under the Nazi leader, Horia Sima, support General Antonescu’s Government and are apparently ranged against the extreme nationalist elements claiming to represent the real doctrines of Codreanu.

The Times’s Belgrade correspondent says reports multiply that the Antonescu Government is rapidly losing ground clue to popular discontent against German domination, the increased. cost of living, and arrests of supposed Communists. German troops are stated to have clashed with Rumanians in Moldavia.

The Bulgarian Premier (Professor Pliiloff) on his return from Vienna did not comment on reports of German troop "concentrations on the Danube opposite Bulgaria. . The Government spokesman declared: “We have no knowledge of any basis for these rumours.”

Professor Pliiloff said: “Reports concerning my visit to Germany are untrue.” He refused to amplify his remarks, but he is understood to mean that he did not receive a demand for an ultimatum.