1300-1315 Sunshine Report

into the house wing of the Capitol. Barricades have been placed in the corridors leading to the house side of the building and at the entrances and exits of the house wing. Guards have orders to permit no one to pass unless he has special credentials. Special passes will be required even of all news and radio reporters and employees of the house. The Metropolitan Police Department

will send 175 men to the Capitol at noon to augment the 150 members of the Special Capital police. In addition, the usual elaborate secret service to tail that accompanies the president will be present. Trouble is reported to have broken out in Romania. A Bucharest radio announcement picked up in Hungary says Romanian Premier Kalinescu has been assassinated. Telephone connections

between Budapest and Bucharest have been cut. There is no further direct information, but here in Washington the Romanian Legation has an unconfirmed report that two or more of the Premier's assistance also were killed. The negation understands, but this is also unofficial, that the assassins were members of the outlawed fascist Iron Guard. This is a group with German

sympathies. Meanwhile, the Western Front is quiet, but there's furious activity behind the lines. Britain, France, and Germany are moving up men in materials for a long and grueling siege. France announces that her general mobilization is complete. Six million well-drilled men are now under arms, either at concentration points or at battle stations.

This vast army is being steadily increased by British arrivals. British artillery already is at the front. British and French warplanes dart the landscape with every level past year and airdrome. In the no man's land between advanced lines, cautious feeler operations are underway.