RED TROOPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 7

RED TROOPS

GERMAN FRONTIER MASS CONCENTRATION REFUGEES' REPORTS ANTI-NAZI PROPAGANDA (United Press . Association) (By Electric Telegraph -Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 2. (Received Oct, 3. at 9 p.m.) The Polish lelegrapine Agency reports that refugees arriving at Bucharest confirm reports of a mass concentration of Russian troops along the Rivers Bug and San, forming the frontier between German and Russian occupied Poland A similar concentration has been begun on the frontier ol Carpathian Ruthenia, where strong mechanised units are camoufiaged among the forests. Worochta, in the Carpathian Mountains, is packed with tanks and motorised units. Moreover, numerous transports and motorised units are going to Rowne and concentrating on the Ger-man-Eussian frontier in that area.

Neutrals arriving at Bucharest from Moscow confirm reports that propaganda against the German threat is being intensified. Russian deliveries to Germany have diminished, and the trade treaty is not being carried out fully.

The German-Russian railway agreement was signed on September 30.

No information is available in London to confirm reports current in the press that the German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) has gone to Moscow. As these reports appear to originate in Germany, it is suggested here that the story is possibly mere propaganda put abroad to encourage the belief that the Russians are on the point of joining the Three-Power Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan. The conclusion of the pact has not yet been officially intimated to the British Ambassador in Tokio (Sir Robert Craigie).