INCREASED TENSION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 7

INCREASED TENSION

BULGARIA AND RUMANIA ATTACK ON AXIS POWERS (United Press Assn.—Elcc. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 13 The correspondent of the Times at Sofia learns officially that Bulgaria has told Rumania that she will not accept a Dobruja settlement which does not give her the 1912 frontier, including Silistra. Concerning this point the Rumanians have raised objections. The Bulgarians have added that they will not accept an invitation to Craiova unless this frontier is conceded.

The Times correspondent also states that a Bulgarian Communist Party manifesto, which was dictated from Moscow, conveys the first official Communist attack against the Balkan policy of the Axis Powers. It violently attacks German attempts to woo Bulgaria by involving her in the Axis with promises of enlarging her territory at the expense of Yugoslavia. The Bulgarian Communists announce that the purpose of the manifesto is to prevent a large Central Balkan land block falling under the dominion of Italy. Influence of Italy The manifesto alleges that Professor Stansheff, leader of the Bulgarian Macedonians, last week returned from Berlin with a plan for an autonomous Macedonia under the influence of Rome. The new State would include portions of Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, thus linking up with an Albania enlarged to include slabs of Grecian Janina and southern Yugoslavia, giving Italy a greatly increased coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean. The manifesto warns the Bulgarians and Macedonians that they are both part of the great brotherhood of Slavs. Eventually, it says, the Macedonians will get autonomy, but never in the Latin orbit.