Rumanians Refuse Duty In Russia
(Rec. 11 a.m.) i LONDON, Dec. 16. A Rumanian 'battalion stationed in Transylvania, which last week refused to proceed to the Russian front, has accoiding to an Ankara message been disarmed and put in a concentration camp. Inc Chief of Staff of the Fifth Rumanian Infantry Division, who was captured by the Russians, said that last January Hitler summoned General Antonescu to Eerlin and ordered him to send an additional 26 Rumanian divisions to the Russian front. The Rumanian Chief of General Staff strongly opposed this and. on the demand of the German Ambassador to Rumania, was dismissed. This was followed by the dismissal of a large group of Rumanian officers who had anti-German sentiments.
The German High Command put the Rumanians in a dangerous salient in Russia and at a critical moment abandoned them to their fate.
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1942, Page 5
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