Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-17 | Page 1 | German Balkan Blow Foreseen

GERMAN BALKAN BLOW FORESEEN BUDAPEST May 17 UP Ger R-Ger- Ger Germany many was vas reported Friday to be massing whole divisions of blitz troops troops mechanized mechanized and motorized forces forces on on the Slovak frontier of Hungary and pointed at Rumania miles away Unconfirmed advices from Vienna Vien Vien- na credited indirectly to German army officers there said that all allbut allbut allbut but the date had been set for a lightning march through Hungary Hun Hun- gary The reports plunged the Balkans into new fear Military observers expressed belief belie that Germany might strike into the Rumanian oilfields oil oilfields oilfields fields to keep her war machine inthe inthe in m the west from running out of gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line Rumania Cancels Leaves Lea The British Broadcasting corporation corporation corporation corpo corpo- ration announced that Rumania had decided to cancel army leaves Rumania is credited with an armed force of men and holds a guarantee of French British-French aid if she has to fight for her independence inde inde- Hungary has shied from any allied promises She was reported recently to have told allied representatives representatives representatives that she would decide on what to do about any right of way for German troops when the need arose A steady stream of troop trains trams and columns of speed high-speed fightIng fighting fighting fight fight- ing equipment replete with artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery tanks armored cars field kitchens and truck trains was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported by way of Bratislava to tobe tobe tobe be m moving ving Into eastern Slovakia l Ia Mass s In Slovakia alda Slovakia which gained a meas- meas sure of Independence under German German German Ger Ger- man military protection in the up break-up of Czecho Slovakia lies across the narrower eastern point of Hungary from northwestern Rumania the Rumania the Transylvania section which Hungary lost in the World war ivar and would like to get back Still other German forces were reported concentrated in the Zistersdorf Zis- Zis region north of Vienna at the western tip of Slovakia The movements in eastern Slovakia Slovakia were said to have started Continued on P Page Two Column ElchO GERMAN BALKI BLOW BLON FORESE J Continued from pate Pace oae Monday with choler choser temporary headquarters 4 A Hundreds of ot nazi warplanes warplane said to be poised at Vlen Vien n 4 Slovak airports ready to re the almost traditional soft softer r. r action of the blitzkrieg teSS Two days before the re tea troop movement into eastern oil refineries In the P I MoravIa mia protectorate i It Iter ar er part of dismembered Ci Slovakia were said to hav 3 advised to transfer all their t 81 to warehouses and to worl and day to meet an urgent urgent urgen mand I For a week observers atI at E pest and elsewhere along the ube have noted an absence o oman oman of man traffic from enna and some military qua qu qua here said that the craft wei we Ing fitted to carry heavy arU art munitions and supplies toward towar mania Military observers believed i the German columns could quickly through Hungary and if the offensive is order