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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...
...Galatz, Rumania sits at the top of the Danube delta surrounded by fens teeming with mosquitoes, waterfowl and half-wild swine, its docks crowded with fat tankers and chunky grain boats. And Galatz was the scene last week of one of the most remarkable conferences since war began. It was not particularly surprising that the European Danube Commission should meet, as it has periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...
...Galatz, Rumania, from Warsaw suddenly traveled Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck seeking audience with King Carol to urge Hungary's claims. He was received coldly. Soon afterward His Majesty and Premier Patriarch Miron Cristea let the Rumanian censorship pass news that the Pole "achieved nothing that he had sought...
...them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only one of which is even remotely familiar to American ears: Alba, Bucharest, Arad, Targu, Mures, Cernauti, Galatz, Braila, Constanza, Oradea, Timisora, Julia, Deva, Cluj...