high ground, the port being completely dominated and overlooked from every quarter. Fortunately there was a Canadian ship loading grain and we went on board to have tea with the English Master. He had no fault to find with his treatment by the Roumanian Port Authorities but he was under no illusion as to the régime by which Roumania is now governed. Apart from a Greek, an American and a Soviet ship, the latter loading timber, a Soviet tanker and a few small Soviet armed motor baots, there was no other activity.