BRITAIN AND TURKEY
MILITARY TALKS IN ANKARA WARMLY WELCOMED Ankara, Jan. 13 General J. H. Marshall-Cornwall and Air Vice-Marshal Elmhurst, representing the British Middle East Command, have arrived for conversations with the Turkish General Staff A large crowd cheered General Marshall-Cornwall, Air Vice-Marshal Elmhurst and other British officers when leaving the . railway station They were welcomed by General Huznu Kilkic, Commandant of the Ankara Garrison. Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, who is resident in Ankara, will attend the forthcoming talks. British sources disclosed that military talks between Britain and Turkey will open to-day with a possible important effect on war developments in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Europe. Britain, after three months’ nego l Nations, is believed to have agreed to allow Yugoslavia to import quantities of rubber and cotton from the United States owing to an acute shortage, says a Belgrade message.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13239, 15 January 1941, Page 8
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