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...Bucharest blackout was suddenly illuminated by the blinding flash of blue light which accompanies the first wave of an earthquake. Then came a series of violent shocks accompanied by the ripping, crashing noise of falling buildings and the screams of people. In five minutes more damage was caused than the Luftwaffe has accomplished in London since the war began. Scarcely a building in the entire city was unscarred. "I had noticed a young couple kissing in an automobile. . . . They are somewhere under there now," stuttered a chalk-faced newsboy, pointing in the street to a mountainous pile of masonry that...
Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true...
...Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had led a life of dignified internment, the Gestapo hauled him to Bucharest for investigation in connection with alleged espionage and sabotage in Rumania, said to involve 7,000 refugee Poles...
...centre of Bucharest, just across the street from one of the grandiose new palace wings with which Carol II busied his last months as Rumania's King, stands the Athenee Palace Hotel. It is a six-story, 200-room structure with a clean face of white stucco. Some call it the laboratory, some the lavatory, of Balkan politics. Its bar buzzes with political gossip and its marble-pillared lounge teems with blondes, top hats, beards, uniforms and monocles. Being the best hotel in Bucharest, it has always been the favorite hangout of the British...
...relations long enough to burn his Legation's secret papers, and to insure the safety of six British oil executives whom the Rumanians had arrested, suspecting sabotage. His only triumph-and since he likes Rumania even this one made him sad-was being able to announce to the Bucharest Foreign Office that Britain, like the U. S., had frozen all Rumanian assets...