LOSS OF TIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5

LOSS OF TIES

RUMANIA LEAVES BALKAN ENTENTE “WITH AXIS TO THE END.” FORMER LEADERS PLACED UNDER ARREST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 29. The Rumanian Government has decided to withdraw from the Balkan Entente, of which the other members are Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia. In making this announcement the Foreign Minister said that Rumania would be with the Axis to the end. Every other tie had fallen to the ground and would be replaced by peaceful collaboration with such friends as remained. Fourteen leading personages of exKing Carol’s regime, including a general who was twice Premier and other Ministers have been placed under arrest in their homes. The Government announced that this step had been taken to protect them against the hostility of the population. BRITISH SUBJECTS ARRESTED & MALTREATED. LONDON, September 29. The five British subjects who were arrested and brutally ill treated in Bucharest are Reginald' Young, chief chemist of an oil company, Charles Brasier, ,engineer, a Canadian mining engineer named Tracey and his wife, and an assistant named Anderson. The British Consul succeeded in seeing the men after overcoming obstructions. He found that they had apparently been subjected to severe manhandling. Attempts to see Mrs Tracey and to revisit the men failed. OIL FOR GERMANY TANKER TRAIN DERAILED. ZAGREB, September 29. A train, mostly comprised of oil trucks, en route from Rumania to Germany, was derailed and severely damaged. An act of sabotage is blamed.