GERMAN THREATS IN BALKANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 6

GERMAN THREATS IN BALKANS

END OF THE ENTENTE PROBLEM FOR TURKEY i.Ly Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] Received Aug. 1, 5.45 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 1. The Boersen Zeitung says: “The continuance of the Balkan Entente is unjustified after the Salzburg and Rome talks. Rumania’s voluntary association with the Axis policy and her impending agreement with Bulgaria and Hungary, means that she has already repudiated the Entente’s policy and organisation. Yugoslavia and Greece have drawn their own conclusions from this, and doubtless will abandon something which has brought them little in the past and can only harm them in the future.

“Turkey has never faced the fact that her entry into the camp of the Western Powers has signified her exit from Europe. The end of the Balkan Entente confronts Turkey with the problem of adapting herself to the policy her Balkan partners have embraced or will embrace, or continuing her withdrawal from Europe making it final and definite.” PRODUCERS MUST PAY NEW RUMANIAN OIL TAX Received Aug. 1, 9.30 p.m. BUCHAREST, Aug. 1. An additional tax of 7 per cent, advalorem will be imposed on oil shipped abroad, making a total of 20 per cent, payable before the oil crosses the frontier. Oil circles say that the new tax is unjust to the producer, because Germany is the largest consumer of Rumanian oil and won’t pay a penny more.