RUSSIANS WORRIED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7

RUSSIANS WORRIED

OVER THE GERMAN ADVANCE IN POLAND HOPES THAT HAVE BEEN DISSIPATED. MISTRUST OF HERR HITLER. NEW YORK, September 11. The “New York Times” Moscow correspondent says there are many reasons why the Russian people are worried over the German advance. Originally they believed that the pact would make it impossible for the French and British to back Poland and that the latter would be compelled to surrender Danzig, postponing the war indefinitely. When, nevertheless, it broke out they believed it would be a prolonged struggle, with determined Allied attacks in the West preventing such concentrated attacks east as seem now to threaten to eliminate Poland, and in a few weeks bring German troops on the whole length of the Russian border. The abrupt conclusion of the pact entirely failed to convince the Russians that Herr Hitler really abandoned the role of the saviour of the world from Bolshevism, nor have they forgotten of the oft-repeated Nazi ambitions to possess the Soviet Ukraine. RUMANIA & SOVIET TRENCHES BEING DUG ON FRONTIER. PRECAUTIONS ON BOTH SIDES. BUCHAREST, September 12. Troops are moving to the RumanianSoviet frontier, where trenches are being dug. Rumania is watching increases made in the Soviet defences on the frontier, which was previously unprotected. Rumania is also concentrating on her defences in the west and south. Preparations have been completed for the evacuation of children from Bucharest.