YUGOSLAVIA WILL FIGHT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21785, 15 October 1940, Page 5

YUGOSLAVIA WILL FIGHT

PRESIDENT WARNS AGGRESSORS Axis Seeks Military Concessions United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 15, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. M. Tsvetkovic (President of the Council, to a speech at Belgrade, said: “We warn everybody that we founded Yugoslavia with blood and only so can it be taken from us. South Serbia is ours. Here we fight. No power on earth will take it from us.” The Belgrade correspondent or the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the Axis is reported to be demanding military concessions and the abandonment of Yugoslav neutrality. The Balkans correspondent of the '•Daily Telegraph" reports that the Italian press advises Yugoslavia to end the activity of British subjects in Yugoslavia who are alleged to be carrying on anti-Axls propaganda. Grip on Rumania The Balkans correspondent of the “Dally Telegraph” says it now appears that German troops fully control the Rumanian oilfields and all strategic points. A constant stream of new arrivals bound for the Danube delta is reported from numerous points. The Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that informed circles state that Russia is concentrating troops in Galatia. The area around Cernauti has been converted into a vast Russian army encampment. It Is stated in Bucharest that Russian monitors recently sank two Rumanian naval patrol boats on the Danube. Russian river warcraft stationed In Bessarabia are reported to have penetrated Rumanian territorial waters. It is officially stated in Bucharest that a Russian destroyer sank a Rumanian sloop which unwittingly entered prohibited Russian waters in the Black Sea on Friday. A destroyer rescued the crew and passengers. The incident is regarded as closed. Finance from Rumania The Turkish radio has announced that the Rumanian Minister of Finance has allocated funds for the maintenance of two German divisions, which are about to arrive in Rumania. At the same time, the Germans have announced that they have taken action in Rumania just in time to prevent a British move. The Rumanian people have been assured that the British were about to bomb the oilfields, but the German announcement does not explain how an infantry division and an armoured division could prevent a move of that sort. Five of the detained British subjects in Rumania, Including Mr F. Miller, are understood to be specifically charged with pouring acid into oil storage tanks, thus spoiling huge quantities of oil destined for Germany and necessitating the chemical testing of rail-tankers before their departure to Germany.