BALKAN CRISIS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23721, 30 July 1940, Page 7

BALKAN CRISIS

DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY SLOVAKS SEE HITLER (GERMAN TBOOP MOVEMENTS (Received July 29, 6 p.m.) LONDON, July 28 It is announced in Bucharest that the former Rumanian Foreign Minister, Dr. Grigore Gafencu, has postponed, until August 10, going to Mosoowi where he will act as Ambassador. The delay is considered significant, as probably it will enable him. to go there with full de- ' tails of ; Hitler's plans for southeastern Europe. Sovietj quarters in Bucharest believe that nothing will be done to change Rumania's frontiers before a full diplomatic exchange has taken place between Berlin, Rome, Moscow and Bucharest.

A message from Berlin says Hitler received ' the Slovak Prime Minister, Dr, Tiso, and the Foreign Minister, M. Tuka.; this afternoon. Reliable quarters confirm reports of German troop movements from western Germany eastward, including activity in Poland. The Berlin wireless states that Bulgaria has dissolved all Masonic lodges. SOVIET MOVE IN ASIA PACT' WITH AFGHANISTAN MOSCOW, July 28 The newspaper Pravda reveals that a Soviet-Afghan trade agreement has been signed'at Kabul. This is a further step/ toward strengthening SovietAfghan relations." ARRIVAL IN MOSCOW GERMAN ECONOMIC EXPERTS (Received July 20, 5.35 p.m.) MOSCOW, July 29 Forty German experts have arrived in connection with the operation o is Soviet-German trade agreement. TRADE WITH JAPAN TURKISH NEGOTIATIONS (Retcived July 20, 7.20 p.m.) ANKARA, July 29 Negotiations have been 1 begun for a new commercial treaty between u.ur ey and Japan. TURKISH NEWS BAN n ANKARA, July 28 A presidential order forbids news papers to publish news from foreign "wireless Stations of foreign inforiria ion from private sources, or from foreign political. personalities.