RIOTS IN RUMANIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 6

RIOTS IN RUMANIA

ATTACK MADE ON GERMAN CONSULATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HITLER RIPPED UP. EX-MINISTER SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. The Associated Press of Great Britain Bucharest correspondent says rioting mobs broke into the German Consulate at Brasov and ripped up photographs of Hitler. « Demonstrators are reported to have beaten up the Italian Consul at Cluj. M. Chirta, ex-Minister of Agriculture. was sent to gaol for making an inflammatory speech.

GERMAN UNITS TAKING OVER DEFENCE OF FRONTIER. RUMANIAN- HUNGARIAN CLASHES. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON. September 3. The Associated Press of Great Britain Bucharest correspondent says German motorised units are reported to be assuming guard over part of the Russian-Rumanian frontier in Southern Bukovina on September 15, which is two days after the Hungarian occupation of Northern Transylvania is scheduled for completion. Strong Reichswehr forces will also be supplemented by Italians, as a gesture to Rumania. The first line of defence against further Russian penetration is being centred at Vivinity and Vatradornei. The Rumanian Army will be retired to form a second line in the neighbourhood of Piatra.

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Balkan correspondent says that despite the prohibition, demonstrations against the Vienna agreement continue. Serious clashes between Rumanian and Hungarian troops are reported in many districts. Four persons were killed and a hundred arrested in Cluj demonstrations and many are reported to have been.killed at Satumare and other towns near the frontier as a result of premature and unofficial Hungarian attempts to occupy the ceded territory.