SABOTAGE ON DANUBE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 8

SABOTAGE ON DANUBE.

TYPICAL NAZI FICTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 9. The German propaganda story of an attempt by the British Secret Service to block traffic on the Danube is considered in authoritative circles in London to be completely disproved by the facts contained in the Rumanian Government’s statement that their authorities had retained certain goods found on a vessel flying the British flag at Giurgiu which did not correspond to the ship’s manifest. A few revolvers were among the goods found. It is untrue that 100 men were arrested and five ships sequestered. No arrests have been made and the incident is regarded as settled. This German attempt to implicate the British. Secret -Service is hardly less ludicrous than such recent allegations as that the British Secret Service had attempted to foist a bogus Dalai Lama on Tibetans, stated in a German broadcast from the Deutsch-land-sender on February 20, or that it. had been deputed to import yellow fever-bearing mosquitoes into India to reduce the population, stated in a broadcast in Italian from Munich on December 8. BUCHAREST, April 10. Official circles deny the report that Germany has demanded that Rumania accept German control of the Danube. The Belgrade correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reported yesterday that Germany has made a demand that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania should accept the policing of the entire length of the Danube by Nazis in order to protect supplies for the Reich.