(Continued from page 1) i. furtherance of her plan for pro-securing the war, These means were being taken without any word of dissent from the Rumanian Government.
Washington, Feb, 11.
Although a coroner ruled that General Walter Krivitsky, former chief of the U.SSR. intelligence service in western Europe, killed himself in a hotel here yesterday, his attorney hinted he may have been assassinated by Soviet agents and demanded an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The attorney, Mr. Louis Waldman, urged the F.B.I, to "use every possible means to make sure this is not another Trotsky case."
Gen, Krivitsky was found with a bullet wound in his head and an automatic revolver nearby, He was the author of a number of extremely anti-Soviet articles published in a popular magazine, exposing methods of Russia's secret service, Three notes found indicated he planned suicide, but his attorney refused to rule out the possibility he was the. victim of an assassination plot—United Press, Position "Impossible"
In these circumstances the position of the British Legation had become impossible and Sir Reginald Hoare was instructed to withdraw his mission and the consular officers under his control. This withdrawal would take place during the next few days.
There can be no doubt as to the concentrations of German troops in Rumania, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. but reports of "train loads of German troops arriving in Sofia from Rumania" must be accepted with reserve.
No direct railway communications between Rumania and Bulgaria exist nor are there any bridges across that part of the Danube which forms a common frontier.
The Danube. which is at present frozen, over, forms a barrier which would be extremely difficult to negotiate. as the river's surface is a congealed mass of blocks and floes of ice forming an almost insurmountable obstacle to vehicular traffic.—Reuter.
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