fiown in from the USSR. A Soviet marine mission is on the spot,
numbering at present roughly 700 Officers, enlisted men, NCO's
and ee a adh i The submarine base is ‘being feverishly
expanded, — BNA )
A new purge of the Communist Party is prepared by Police Minister
Mehmet Shehu, Thig purge will deal more with bourgeois deviatio=
nists then with Titoistse
POLAND ;
The amoured equipment of the Polish Army “stiii-originating from
those captured át" the surrender of the German Forces, is now being
ment from the USSze Despite this modernization\much of this
equipment will soon\ be removed from Poland and sent to Asia for
the equipment of both Vietminh and Bumiese forbes. The Polish
equipment will be-gradually replaced by Soviet one, this operation
to be ended on or about September ist, eae
In connection with the tremenduous praises lavished upon Boleslaw
Bierut on the occ&sion of his sixtieth birthday it is interesting
to note that Bierut.. like his friend Rikosi, is also living in
extreme Jumry. He lives at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw and
has i. oe of Natoiin for his.country residence, At
the Jatier castle he maintains one of the most lumrious riding
stables, riding jeing his main hobbys. as
RUMANIA s: ~ ő
indications are rising that a mass deportation on the Hungarian
pattem is under preparation and that it Will affect the oil,
fields, the Yugoglav border and the mogt important towns of the
country. | SA BA
The presently undergoing re-organization of the Cabinets is , des=
pite all news to the contrary not motivated by political reasonse
It is really something purely technical.