Foreign News: Black Clouds, Black Sea

A new German Fleet of small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on...

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