RUMANIA YIELDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1940, Page 7

RUMANIA YIELDS

CESSION OF GOOD HALF OF TRANSYLVANIA

UNDER PRESSURE FROM AXIS POWERS.

RIBBENTROP'S AMBITIOUS CLAIM.

The terms of t he settlement imposed by Germany and Italy on. Hungary and Rumania have been announced, Davmitry reports. Rumania is Io cede to Hungary a good hall' ol' Transylvania —an area of about 1700 square miles. There is a report of a joint German and Italian guarantee to Rumania; but no mention of I his appears in I he 1 erms.

Provision is made for an exchange of population. Rumanian subjects will automatically acquire Hungarian nationality and will be entitled to ask for Rumanian nationality within six months. An assurance has been given that they will be able to take their property with them. Similarly. Hungarians in Rumania may ask for Hungaran nationality. The area ceded has to be handed over within 14 days. A joint Rumanian-Hungarian commission is to fix the stages of evacuation. More

than half of the Hungarian-Rumanian agreement concerns the rights of the German minority in Hungary. In announcing the agreement in Berlin. Herr von Ribbentrop said the Rumanian and Hungarian governments had appealed to Germany and Italy, stating that they wanted the dispute settled amicably. Now that Russia and Rumania had solved the Bessarabian question and Rumania and Bulgaria Ihe Dobruja question, said Herr von

Ribbentrop, the Axis had solved the last outstanding problem of the Dan-1 übe Basin. The truth of the statement, that Rumania had appealed to Germany and Italy may be judged from a statement issued in Bucharest, which says that Rumania received a Note from Germany and Italy in the nature of an ultimatum. It was for this reason that Rumania accepted the arbitration of the Axis Powers.

FRONTIER CLASHES FURTHER SOVIET PROTEST. EARLY SATISFACTORY REPLY DEMANDED. MOSCOW. August 30. The Tass News Agency announced that M. Dekanozov, the DeputyCommissar for Foreign Affairs, handed the Rumanian Ambassador, M. Gafencu, a Note, on August 19, protesting against provocative actions by Rumanian troops on the Soviet-Rumanian frontier and emphasising that a repetition of ' firing on Soviet troops by Rumanian troops, to which Soviet frontier guards in some cases had been compelled to reply, could not be tolerated.

Yesterday M. Dekanozov handed to M. Gafencu another Note protesting against “new hostile actions by Rumanian frontier detachments and army units on the Soviet frontier and also by Rumanian military aircraft." The Note declared: “The matter may take a grave turn if casualties occur.”

The Soviet Government placed on the Rumanian Government the entire responsibility for the consequences of the above-mentioned actions. A Note submitted by M. Gafencu yesterday contested the Soviet allegations. and added that the Rumanian Government had repeatedly instructed its frontier guards to do their utmost to avoid incidents disturbing the goodneighbourly relations of Russia and Rumania, M. Gafencu referred to lhe occurrences in which Russians had fired on Rumanian frontier detachments and Soviet aircraft had crossed the frontier.

M. Dekanozov replied that M. Gafencu's information would be investigated, and he added that the Soviet required an early satisfactory answer to its second protest because, in spite of the Rumanian Note, Rumanian troops were continuing violations of the Soviet frontier.

AXIS AND SOVIET — > REPORT OF INTENDED NOTE. CLAIMING SPECIAL INTEREST IN RUMANIA. LONDON. August 30. The Bucharest correspondent of Reuter’s Agency says it is unofficially but reliably reported that the Italian and German ambassadors in Moscow will visit the Foreign Commissar, M. Molotov, today and hand over a formal declaration that Rumania lies within the German and not the Russian sphere of economic interest. AGREEMENT SIGNED THE TRANSFER OF TERRITORY TO HUNGARY. AXIS SUPPORT AGAINST SOVIET. (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. August 30. The British United Press Association’s Vienna correspondent says Italy, Germany. Rumania and Hungary have signed an agreement, ceding 20,000 square miles of Rumanian territory Io Hungary, 'lhe Axis had threatened l> withdraw its support of Rumania against Soviet pressure unless Rumania agreed immediately Io cede a large strip of territory Io Hungary. SO-CALLED OFFER OF AXIS ARBITRATION. ACCEPTED BY RUMANIA UNDER DURESS. (Received This Day. 9.35 a.m. I BUCHAREST. Augusl 30. It is announced that Rumania accepted Axis arbitration after receipt of an Italian-German Note, which was “in the nature of a demand.”