Stringent measures the like of which have not been evidenced in Shanghai during the past year and which included the systematic searching of all pedestrians and motorists despite traffic jams have been adopted in Japanese occupied areas here during the past week following the assassination of Mayor Fu Siao-en and the fatal shooting of Corporal In the second Note, Moscow, according to these reports, asked what was the real purpose of German military penetration and whether Germany was aware that certain Rumania and Hungarian elements entertained the idea of being Germany's allies in a war against Russia. To this Germany is said to have replied that her mission aimed at creating a defensive, not offensive, organism in Rumania.
It is expected in Bucharest that Herr Joachim yon Ribbentrop, Cer-man Foreign Minister, will soon be going to Moscow to obtain Soviet alignment with the three-Power pact between Germany, Italy and Japan. Local Nazi propaganda is being concentrated on the endeavour to show that German-Russian relations are likely to become even closer in future in spite of British overtures, to Moscow.
Military authorities continue to receive information of extensive Soviet defence measurey in Bessarabia, where railway trafic is reported to be monopolized by military transport, Nevertheless, any idea of an imminent Soviet-German clash is discredited in Rumanian Communist circles.
AN available information from Moscow suggests that a radical change in the Soviet attitude towards Germany is most unlikely, as Russia is disinclined to provoke the Reich a: the present juncture.
Meanwhile, the: German descent upon Rumanía still has the nature of a foraging expedition rather than. of military occupation. German staff Citcerr and soldiers appear to be as much engaged in seeking out the best restaurants og in finding strategic gun emplacements.
Political circles here are inclined appar the. initial. impressive of German mechanized strength was aimed more at protecting the Iron Guard regime from interior political opposition or army disaffection than ut safeguarding the frontiers, German soldiers are methodically dispatching food parcels each week. German officers are often seen in mufti partly because of hostile comments aroused by their appearance among the Rumanian public,
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