Belgrade, Mar. 29.
Yugoslavia yesterday rushed 1,250, 000 troops into the strips of defences facing four Geman-manned frontiers after informing Chancellor Hitler that. certain points" of the Axis pact were not acceptable to the public, reliable sources disclosed here yesterday.
Meanwhile, the new Premier, Gen. Dusan Simoviteh, and the entire nation awaited Germany's anewer by: word or action. (Reports from Ber~ lin. said an answer had "not been received from Belgrade to Germany's urgent request for clarification of the Yugoslav Government's attitude toward the Axis.)
Proclamations issued yesterday many that events in Yugoslavia spoke for thomselvea.
Yugoslav troops, under full mobr~ zation orders, streamed toward the! Borders to guard against threat from any quarter.
The German Ambassador here, said reliable sources, was informed. that events in Yugoslavia spoke for them= selves and that "certain points of fact During the return journey to the palace the crowds repeatedly broke Trough the police lines and cure rounded he cats. of "Britis and American diplomats, who also attend-the services, The surging throngs cheered the United States and Eog-
velt.
Ethel specially President Rome Passage of Axis cars was watched swith dignified silence and melleulouscourteous behaviour. The crowds iso acclaimed Polish, Turkish, Greek and Russian cars—United Press, Roosevelt Congratulates King Washington, Mar. 29, President Roosevelt has sent congratulatory cablegram to King Peter of, Yugoslavia expressing the hope for "mutually beneficial" Yugosiav-'American relations, It was announced Fast ight.
The President's message to the youthful King was disclosed by the Biate Department. The message was font by the President from aboard his yacht Potomac on which he is cruising oft the Florida coast, "The text of the fossage to the seventeen-year-old sovereign. said, "At this moment when your Majesty
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