RUMANIA'S FUTURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24869, 15 April 1944, Page 7

RUMANIA'S FUTURE

LIKELIHOOD OF PEACE ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 14 Diplomats in close touch with Rumanian affairs believe that a dramatic announcement about Rumania's future part in the war and the position of the Rumanian Government will be made soon, says the political correspondent of the Daily Express. There is no confirmation of reports from Ankara, says the correspondent, that Rumanian Ministers are en route to Moscow to discuss peace terms, as it is thought that this step will not be necessary. The Rumanian Government is studying detailed Russian peace terms, according to foreign diplomats in London. These terms are said to have been approved by Britain and America. They are understood to be generous, and there is little doubt, says the Daily Express, that if the Rumanian Government were sufficiently free it would accept them. The paper adds: "Rumania is now a German-occupied country, but there are signs that the Rumanians are becoming hostile to the Germans who, they feel, have left them in the lurch." REPLY BY FINLAND DOOR STILL LEFT OPEN (Recil. 0.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 14 Swedish messages say that Finland's reply to the Russian peace terms has not yet passed through Stockholm and so could not reach .Moscow until at to-morrow. A reporter in Stockholm sfiys it is relinblv reported there that the Finnish Note, * while not accepting Russian terms, does leave the door open for further negotiations and asks for a clearer statement of the Russian conditions. MISSION TO MOSCOW ARRIVAL OF YUGOSLAVS (Reed. 7.10 p.m.) MOSCOW. April 14 Marshal Tito's military representative, Lieutenant-General Volimir Terzich, lias arrived by air from Teheran. He heads the military mission from the Yugoslav Committee of National Liberation which is being established in Moscow. Members of the Russian General Staff met the mission on arrival.