DIFFICULTIES MET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 6

DIFFICULTIES MET

BY GERMAN FORCES LN YUGOSLAVIA SERBS FIGHTING WELL. IN DEFENCE OF MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. A Budapest news agency says Hungary has declared a state of siege and is manning her defences, omitting no stop to safeguard her interests and to keep the war as far as possible from her frontiers. A Sofia message says the Government has instructed the Legation at Belgrade io protest to the'Yugoslav Government against the bombing of open towns of Bulgaria yesterday. Rumania also has protested to Yugoslavia against the bombing of Rumanian towns. Berlin officials claim that German troops thus far have penetrated Yugoslavian and Greek frontiers to a depth of 20 to 25 miles. The Berlin radio is preparing the Germans for difficulties in Yugoslavia, where communications arc poor with few railways and the roads are unsuitable for heavy motor vehicles. It is stated that the Germans are facing in the Balkans a battle very different from those on the Western front —a battlefield which is offering many advantages to the defenders, with mountain passes as scarce as oases in the desert. The Serbs are fighting tenaciously and they are not particular in their choice of war methods.