ALLIES ON GUARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1940, Page 6

ALLIES ON GUARD

AGAINST POSSIBLE OFFENSIVE ENEMY PREPARATIONS ON WEST FRONT. BELIEVED TO BE COMPLETE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. In preparation against a possible German offensive on the Western Front, all French Army leave has been suspended. Belgium has followed suit. Military sources have noted that it. is clear that the Germans are making preparations for ail offensive. Considerable German activity is indicated along the hundred mile front between the Moselle and the Rhine; also on the Belgian. Luxembourg and Dutch borders. The "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent states that the French General Staff believes that German preparations for an offensive are complete and that the Germans are ready to attack, possibly on Monday. The enemy in the past twenty-four hours has made three or four deep reconnaissances over Northern and Eastern France. The Dutch are also completing their military preparedness. A large detachment of troops has moved to the German frontier. FEARS IN SWEDEN. Fears of an infringement of Swedish neutrality are intensified by the possibility that the Germans may demand a right of passage for reinforcements for Norway. The Swedish Admiralty has issued, a statement saying that the western waters have been mined for, 75 miles. Planes and troops are patrolling the whole frontier. A partial evacuation has begun in Gothenburg, outside of which anti-aircraft guns shot down an unidentified plane. ANXIETY IN BALKANS. Anxiety is also deepening in the Balkans. "The Times" Belgrade correspondent ' states that a German warning that she will ignore Rumanian sovereignty and police the Danube was given in an official declaration to the Berlin correspondent of the Bulgarian' newspaper "Otro." The German authorities and Rumanian official circles deny the presentation of an ultimatum. The Rumanian Government has decreed that all factories engaged in defence works must store supplies for use in the event of a general mobilisation.