Bucharest, Oct. 14.
Russia, Turkey, Jugoslavia and Greece were today reported here to be engaged in urgent inter-locking negotiations in which it was believed that Turkey, Greece and Jugoslavia were forming a defence alliance to resist any Axis aggression.
At the same time, powerful Russian military forces were rumoured to have massed on the Rumanian frontier as the Balkans awaited the next move of the Axis following the German entry into Rumania—United Information reaching diplomatic quarters here last night indicated that there is now in the process of formation a tripartite Balkan bloc which might attempt to oppose by force certain predicted moves of the Axis Powers.
"Yugo-Slavia, Greece and Turkey, according to: the reports received here, have resolved to band themselves together to resist any possible German or German-Italian thrust towards either Greece or Turkey.—
United Press.
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