GERMAN TROOPS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21358, 28 February 1941, Page 5

GERMAN TROOPS

ENTRY INTO BULGARIA !CONFERENCE OF LEADERS J MUSSOLINI PtEASED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 27 The International News Service at : Budapest says it is reported from | Sofia that 12,000 German troops i have entered Bulgaria from Ru- ! mania and that they form the van- | guard cf a force of 120,000 which is ! soon to stream across the Danube | and confront Greece. A despatch from Sofia says the Bulgarian Cabinet met in an emerg- ; ency session after a conference had ! been held between the Prime Min- | ister, Professor Filoff, the Foreign ' Minister, M. Popoff and the Army j Chief of Staff, General Petkoff. Torrential rain which has fallen in western Bulgaria for 24 hours is ' likely to waterlog the two airports at Sofia and delay the arrival of 100 German fighters which were promised for to-day as a protection against the British and possibly Turkish, raids which the Bulgars have been told to expect. According to earlier messages the tense expectancy in Sofia was relieved only by the knowledge that the weather was unfavourable for a German move. However, it had improved sufficiently to enable Bulgarian and Rumanian shipping to resume on the Danube up to the Yugoslav frontier. A considerable number of German naval ratings have arrived in Vienna and Linz, and elsewhere in Austria, according to the Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Their destinations are variously conjectured to be the Danube, Black Sea and Adriatic. Mussolini’s Approval Mussolini has sent a message to the Prime Minister of Rumania, General Antonescu, saying: “I Warmly approve your attitude to Britain and much appreciate your Government’s straight-forward action, which has neatly cut short all possible British manoeuvres.” The Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, Dr. Cincar-Markovich, has arrived in Budapest and conferred with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Teleki. He received the Hungarian Grand Cross and is being lavishly entertained. MINISTERS WITHDRAW GREEK, BELGIAN AND DUTCH ARREST OF BULGARIANS (Omciai Wir^ss) RUGBY, February 26. The Rome radio said that the Greek Legation at Sofia has followed the example of the British, Belgian and Netherlands Ministers in leaving Bulgaria. The United States is watching their interests. The police has speeded up the arrest of all Bulgars known to be suspected of anti-German tendencies, who are being sent to a concentration camp. The Government attempted to form a Coalition, but failed because the Opposition declines responsibility for the crisis arid demands the transfer of authority to a Couhcil of Regency. GERMAN WARNING TRADE WITH ARGENTINA BUYING AFTER THE WAR (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 26 The German Ambassador to Argentina, von Therman, warned Argentina that commercial relations with*the United States had no future, while Germany after the war would be the biggest buyer in Europe. American aid was only a British dream, he said. “Germany will be in a position to export to Argentina much machinery and buy corn, wheat and meat,” he said. “This is not the case with the United States since she has the same products.” Argentina should-not forget Japan, he added, “which is now on our side.”