YUGOSLAV ALARM

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 10

YUGOSLAV ALARM

Italian Activity Near Frontier REPORTED GERMAN CONCENTRATIONS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. LONDON. April 30. The Zagreb correspondent of the .Associated Press of Great Britain says that Yugoslavia is alarmed by reports of intensive Italian military activity near the Y ugoslav 1 ronliei. The virtual suspension of German coal trains to Italy is attributed to heavy military traffic on Italian lines leading to the Yugoslav border. Railway workers returning Iron) Italy report seeing a trainload of tanks moving up. It is also repotted that new A.R.P. shelters arc being constructed at I'iume ano Trieste where the population is nervous. . . The Yugoslav authorities have expelled several hundred more German “tourists.” German concentrations arc reported near the frontier.

SLOVAKIA WARNED

Treatment Of Hungarian Minority BUDAPEST, April 30. The Foreign Minister, Count Csaky, stronglv warned Slovakia against persecuting the Hungarian minority of IOOJWO. , ~ . . “Slovakia,” he said, "should not attempt to play off Germany against llungarv. because 1 Hungary trusts m the 'stability of her friendship with Germany. All must recognize that Hungary will act if and when it is advisable, and not under provocation. Slovakia must understand that we shall defend the rights of Hungarians. Slovak diplomats described Count Csaky’s warning as nonsense, and insisted that the Germans would support Slovakia. They denied maltreatment of Hungarians, and compared then treatment with that of Slovaks living in Hungary.