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Show RUMANIA FEARS GERMANPLEDGE BUCHAREST, Feb. 28 U-Au-thoritatlve quarters said today Germany had offered to guarantee Rumania's borders In return for huge Increases In oil, wheat and other raw material shipments to the relch. These sources said the plan was submitted while the Rumanian cabinet considered Issuing a royal decree for virtual civil mobilization mobiliza-tion to accompany military mobilization mob-ilization already undertaken In part. Acceptance of the German plan, It waa said, would oblige Rumania to abandon her plan for civil mobilization and send at least 1,000,000 of her 1.400.000 men under un-der arma hark to their Jobs in fields and factories. The German plan also was said to Include a promise to prevsll upon Hungary, Bulgaria and Soviet Russia to abandon their territorial claims on Rumania and sign non-aggression non-aggression pacta with her. Authoritative quarters said It waa extremely doubtful whether Rumania would accept the plan because the price a virtual nazl monopoly of her exports was considered con-sidered far too much. The presence of allied and Turkish Turk-ish armies in the near east within reach of Rumania's border was said by diplomats to be making the Balkan country cautious about accepting German guarantees. The recent favorable trend of French and British relations with Rumania, wherein the allies resumed re-sumed shipping raw materials, war planes and armaments to Rumania, was seen aa another bar to the German proposal. |