The Archive · 1940

Frontier Incidents

Persistent Reports of\Russian Troop Movements — Along New Border Continue to Circulate Bucharest, Sept

AET with regard to Soviet-Rumanian relation has in eased as a result of the latest Soviet note to Rumania protesting against alleged frontier incidents on Wednesday.

The frontier situation had been threatening for some weeks and there have been pers stent reports of Soviet troop concentrations along the river Pruth which marks the line of the new border.

Another interesting aspect of the situation is the presence in the Danubian port of Galatz of 1,500 uniformed Nazi officials ostensibly to organize the evacuation of the 90,000 members of the German minority from the Russian-occupied provinces of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.

Political circles here point out that the Soviet demarche to Germany in regard to the Danube. clashed for the first time-with the German contention that the rest of the territory remain ing to Rumania comes within Germany's economic sphere.—Reuter.

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