London, May 2. News has been received in London from reliable sources that a number of armoured German patrol vessels disguised as barges has reached the lower Danubian waters, Reuter's Diplomatic correspondent learns.
Some of these vessels are said to be anchoring at Rustchuk, Bulgarian town, 139 miles west of Varna.
This step is regarded in London as a characteristic German gesture flouting the authority of the riverine governments, namely those of Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bul-gona, and the Danubian Commission.
It followed closely upon a proposal by Hungary, believed to have been inspired by Berlin, that the policing of the sector comprising the Iron Gate narrows should be entrusted to an\ international squadron, which woùid-mean the inclusion of Germany.
—Reuter.
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