The Archive · 1940

France Not to Cede Territory

Washington, Nov. 1 M. Have, French Ambassador, ye: terday gave the State Department r newed assurances that the United Substantial German ments in Rumania in recent hours and the arrival of additional German forces at Giurgiu and other points on the Danube were confirmed by reliable quarters: here carly toda:

German aircraft un ts also wert reported to have arrived' at Constanza, The sudden.. spurt in German activity in Ruman. was linked with the reported German' pressure on Turkey to force Greece tó-oopitulate to the Italians.

Telephone communications were disrupted last night. Calls from Sofia to Istanbul. Athens, Salonika, Bucharest and Budapest were refused by the ' telephone exchange,—United Press.

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