THREAT TO BALKANS
GERMAN FORCES MASSING ON BORDERS OF YUGOSLAVIA AND HUNGARY. SOVIET NOTE PRESENTED TO RUMANIA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, April 18. It is confirmed that the Germans are massing numerous divisions of troops on the Yugoslavian and Hungarian frontiers. Npithpr :i!
Neither Britain nor France is militarily committed to Yugoslavia, but the Allies’ treaty with Turkey covered the possibility of aggression toward Yugoslavia with the clause regarding any aggression which threatens the security of the signatories. Ankara announced that a French military mission has arrived for talks with the Turkish General Staff. Admiral of the Fleet Mehemetali has taken charge of the Turkish Fleet exercises.
The “Daily Telegraph’s” special representative in Paris says that the Soviet Premier, M Molotov, is reported to have handed to the Rumanian Minister in Moscow a.memorandum alleging 15 instances of Rumanian violation of the Dniester frontier. Rumanian inquiries revealed that 14 of the allegations were unfounded, and the fifteenth concerned a prisoner who tried to cross the river despite riflefire from guards.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 5
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169THREAT TO BALKANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 5
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