DANUBE DELTA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 5

DANUBE DELTA

OCCUPATION BY SOVIET DENIED. EXPLANATION OF RECENT TROOP MOVEMENTS. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) BUCHAREST, October 16. Russian and Rumanian officials have firmly denied that Soviet troops haveoccupied the delta of the Danube. It was admitted that a thrust across the Danube would mean hostilities. Recent troop movements on the Bessarabian frontier probably were due to endeavours to complete the defences of the frontier before the heavy snows. NAZI ASSERTION RUSSIA INFORMED BEFOREHAND. OF DISPATCH OF TROOPS TO RUMANIA. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 16. A message from Berlin states that authorised sources flatly insisted that Russia received intimation of the dispatch of German troops to Rumania. It is claimed that the Tass Agency statement on Tuesday referred to an article in a Danish newspaper, and did not apply to the concrete fact of whether or no Russia had been informed. AXIS INTERVENTION IN DISPUTE BETWEEN HUNGARY & RUMANIA. CRISIS SAID TO HAVE BEEN OVERCOME. BASLE, October 15. The Berlin correspondent of the " “Basler Nachrichten” says it is official- ’ ly announced that the RumanianHungarian crisis has been overcome, ? the Axis bridging the difficulties. The 1 presence of German troops in Ru--1 mania, it is claimed, contributed greatt ly to the settlement of the dispute. ’ The Rumanian Press war against Hun- ■ gary has ceased. The official German news agency says the disappearance of atrocity reports from the Hungarian and Rumanian Press is interpreted as an indication that the trouble has subsided, but newspapermen in both countries know that the censor received German-in-s spired instructions to eliminate such a reports..