German Army For Rumania

Northern Advocate, 26 December 1940, Page 5

German Army For Rumania

(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, December 25.

German army trains are stretching for 100 miles, moving across Hungary to Rumania, starting a mass movement which is expected to concentrate 300,000 new German troops in Rumania within a month.

The Budapest correspondent of tho Associated Press of Great Britain says it is learned that the Germans are sending 1160 trains carrying 20 divisions, with full equipment, including artillery and motorised vehicles, across Hungary to Rumania before the end of January. Military authorities estimate that a maximum of 100,000 German soldiers are already in Rumania. The Germans are also sending to Rumania much bridge-building equipment. Troop Concentration. An earlier message stated: Germany is reported to be concentrating troops at Timisoara and Arad, in the north-west of Rumania, says a message from Budapest.

Between two and three divisions have .arrived, and it is understood Arad will become the divisional headquarters of General Huber. The Hungarian railways have announced that their schedules have been drastically restricted. According to the Belgrade correspondent of the “New York Times,” Yugoslav military quarters say German sappers, engineers, and other technicians, and .air personnel fighting in Northern Albania, have been ferried there by air across the Adriatic Sea and over Yugoslavia.