TURKEY’S POSITION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 5, 17 October 1940, Page 6

TURKEY’S POSITION.

RELATIONS WITH SOVIET.

BRITISH DIPLOMATS CONFER

(Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 16

The Sofia correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states, 'that Mr G. W. Rendell, of the Foreign Office has gone to Istanbul to confer with Sir Knatchbull Hugesson (British Ambassador to Turkey). The conference is considered to be closely identified with future Turkish and Soviet relations, in which! Turkey will still carry the British guarantee. King Boris yesterday gave audience to Mr Rendel who twice conferred with M. Filoff. Evidence is accumulating that the Bulgarians' are impressed by the Soviet manoeuvres and are trying to maintain a police of peaceful neutrality against reported Axis pressure. The Rome correspondent of the Associated Press states that M. Bagrionoff (Bulgarian Minister of .Agriculture) arrived from Germany and had a friend- ' ly conversation with Count Ciano. M. Bagrianoff is considered one of Bulgaria’s leading Axis sympathisers. The “Osservatore Romano” declared that Parliamentary circles in Sofia were discussing an imminent Cabinet crisis which was expected to occur when M. Bagrianoff returns.