RUSSIANS MASSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 7

RUSSIANS MASSED

GERMAN FRONTIER

PROPAGANDA AGAINST NAZI

THREAT

TRADE TREATY FAILS

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.!

LONDON, October 2

The Polish telegraphic agency reports that refugees arriving in Bucharest confirm that a mass concentration of Russian troops is being made along the Rivers Bug and San, which form the frontier between German and Russian Poland.

A similar concentration was begun on the frontier of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, where strong Russian mechanised units lie camouflaged among the forests.

Worochta, the famous Polish spa in the Carpathian mountains, is packed with tanks and motorised units. Moreover, numerous transports of motorised units are going to Rowne (or Rovno, j south-eastern Poland), from where they are concentrating on the GermanRussian frontier in that area. Neutrals arriving in Bucharest from] Moscow confirm that Russian propaganda against a German threat is being intensified. The Russian deliveries to Germany, they state, have diminished, and the trade treaty is not being carried out fully. Trade. He is expected to be a worthy successor of the energetic Mr. Mornson at the Ministry of Supply. The new President of the Board of Trade, Captain Lyttelton, is another business man who has not figured in politics before. Since the beginning of the war he has been doing the important but little-known job as Controller of Non-ferrous Metals, and by buying within the Empire he is said to have secured all the nation's requirements for a three years' war at a much lower price than the country would have had to pay in future years. Lord Cranbourne was Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs under Mr. Eden, and resigned with Mr. Eden in February, 1938. Lord Caldecote. who is better remembered as Sir Thomas Inskip, was in the Dominions Office for only a short time and his main political appointment was as Minister of Co-ordi-nation of Defence under Mr. Chamberlain.

Lieutenant-Colonel Moore-Brabazon, who succeeds Sir John Reith, is one of the country's leading authorities on transport, and was the first man in Britain to hold a civil air pilot's certificate.

Sir John Reith, the former chief of the 8.8.C., entered political life as. Minister of Information only a .few months ago before going to the Ministry of Transport. He is an engineer by training and his great gifts of drive and organisation are likely to be matched with the big job in the newlyformed Ministry of W,orks and Buildings.

The Lord President of the Council, Sir John Anderson, is given a new duty. The Scientific Advisory Committee, set up to ensure the closest possible help from science in the war effort, will report to him. Lord Hankey is chairman, and the six members are all distinguished scientists, including Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society.

A statement from No. 10 Downing Street states that the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) will be Leader of the House of Lords in place of Viscount Caldecote.