FIGHTING IN RUMANIA
TROOPS AND PARTISANS
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 12. The first fighting between Rumanian troops *ll.l Partisans has broken out in the frontier districts of Silistra, Craiova, and Orahovica, according to reports from Switzerland. Thirty thousand persons have besieged the Swiss and Turkish Consulates in Rumania, especially those in Bucharest, seeking visas to get out of the country following the news of the Red Army’s rapid progress at the southern end of the eastern front. The Russians’ swift and unchecked advance has caused veritable panic throughout Rumania. Tens of thousands of panic-stricken peasants are evacuating eastern Rumania before the advancing Red Army can reach them. Peasants are jamming the main roads along which the Germans are trying to rush reinforcements to the eastern front. The German garrisons In Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Moldavia have been ordered to halt the evacuation at all costs. Hundreds of Rumanian refugees have already been arrested.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 271, 16 November 1943, Page 5
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