RECALLED HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 51, 29 February 1940, Page 7

RECALLED HOME.

TURKISH SHIPPING.

Students In Germany To Go

To British Yards.

REASON FOB LATEST SLIP.

United Press Aeeociation.—Copyright.

(Rewived 11.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, February 28

The British United Press correspondent at Istanbul reports that the Turkish Cabinet decided to recall all Turkish ships abroad and prohibit sailings in foreign waters.

The Havas Agency at Tstanbu] confirms Turkey's recall of merchantmen. The naval mission which went to Hamburg to take delivery of merchantmen which Germany have been building has gone to Paris.

Germany was authorised to deliver the vessels, but refused to give anv guarantee outside German waters.

An. official Istanbul message stated that the report that all Turkish merchantmen have been recalled was a "false interpretation of an order issued some time ago, calling home certain ships needed in Turkish waters."

Advices from Ankara state that 40 Turkish students recalled from Germany are going to Britain to take up engineering courses in British shipyards.

NO CONFIRMATION.

BUSSO-TUBK INCIDENTB.

(Received noon.) LONDON. February 28. Mr. R. A. Butler, Foreign Undersecretary, said in the House of Commons that the Foreign Secretary had not received official confirmation of incidents on the Russo-Turkish frontier, which have been recently reported in the Press.