London, Aug. 29.
Owing to the tremendous difficulties he is encountering in his battle against England, Hitler has decided to play his war game in the Mediter-
lay, it was learned here yester-
Within a few days he is going to transfer a substantial force to the Mediterranean in order to reinforce the Italians. Thus he will try to beat the British on the sea at Alexandria and en land in Egypt.
The Führer is running short of petroleum and he feels if the Axis could obtain supremacy in the Mediterranean, England would be deprived of the petroleum which she now obtains from Iraq and Iran.
If England is successful in holding her own on the Mediterranean and the North Sea, she will face the Winter under the best conditions possible because Britain's ruling the Mediterranean means that Germany can only obtain her petroleum through Rumania by way of the Danube—United Pr Bucharest, Aug. 29.
Todays meeting of the Italian, German, "Rumanian and Hungarian Foreign Ministers at Vienna is expected to produce quick results.
The German view, as expressed here, is that while the Axis still has no intention of arbitrating between Rumania and Hungary, it intends to ensure that the Hungarians and Rumanians will settle their differences without delay.
An apparently inspired article In the local German newspaper, the "Bukarester Tageblatt," says: "Justice now does not mean this or that view—it means order. ho still do not understand t of European organisation should know that the Axis Powers e the means to carry out their plan The Rumanian attitude remains that negotiations with Hungary must be based on the principle of an exchange of populations. An inspired article in the Government newspaper, "Romania," describes the principle as having been indicated to Rumania by the Axis.
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