NAZIS & SOVIET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 7

NAZIS & SOVIET

REPORTED PARTITION PLANS RUMANIAN TERRITORY FOR RUSSIA. | MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. October 10. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says diplomatic reports received here indicate that Germany has informed the Soviet Union that eventual Russian occupa- ] tion of Bessarabia (north-east Rumania) will not be opposed. Berlin and Moscow are unable to j agree on vital zones of influence in the ( Balkans. j Now that the repatriation of Ger- , mans from Baltic States is well under way Herr Hitler is reported to be con- j sidering the repatriation of Germans in south-eastern Europe and Russia, a ra- ] dio report states. It is believed that ; he is organising a vast transfer of Ger- j mans from the Danube countries. Ac- | cording to this plan Czechs would be sent to Soviet Russia and would be i replaced by Germans from Rumania, . and Germans from Hungary would also £ be transferred. Russia has agreed to r evacuate Germans from Soviet terri- { tory. The extent of the evacuation is ( not known. £ REPORT RIDICULED I e NO TRANSFER FROM VOLGA BASIN. SOME CONSEQUENCES ENTAILED. (Received This Day. 10.0 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, October 11. . The “Politiken’s” Moscow correspondent ridicules the report of the German minority in the Volga Basin re- I turning to the Reich. He points out that it would mean turning loose half a million ardent Bolsheviks in Germany. Moreover, M. Stalin is unlike- s !y to part with industrious and loyal s subjects I