SUMMONS TO TURKEY

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23191, 30 November 1940, Page 13

SUMMONS TO TURKEY

“MUST BE READY TO FIGHT ” (Received November 29, 9.30 p.m.). ANKARA, November 29. The Ankara radio stated that the international situation summons Turkey to total preparedness. Our present slogan is: “Live in peace but be ready to fight in the morning.” Eleven thousand people have already volunteered for civil defence in Istanbul alone. The black-out in civilian dwellings will be extended throughout Turkey from December 1. From London, it Is reported that the Bulgarian resident Minister (M. Mointchiloflf) states that rumours current abroad, particularly in Bucharest and Belgrade, alleging the overthrow of the Bulgarian Government and the declaration of a slate of siege in Sofia are tendentious and entirely without foundation. The Minister adds that the situation throughout Bulgaria is perfectly calm. M, Yaneff, a prominent member of the Government Party, speaking in the Assembly, said that Bulgaria would only participate In war if forced by some necessity. The -primary aim of Bulgarian policy was to preserve Bulgaria. He added that Bulgaria had definite revisionist claims which she hoped to realise peacefully. PATROL ACTIVITY CONTINUES —♦ — ENEMY HARASSED AT GALLABAT (Received November 29, 7 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. A communique issued in Cairo states that British patrols continue to harass the enemy in the Gallabat and Kassala areas. There is nothing to report on other fronts. It is reliably reported in Zurich that the aerbplane carrying M, Jean Chiappe, the Vichy High Commissioner to Syria, was shot down over the northern Mediterranean, M. Jean Chiappe, the former Prefect of Police in Paris, who was recently appointed High Commissioner in Syria and the Lebanon, is best remembered because of the fact that he was Chief of the Paris police at the time of the Stavisky riots in 1934, and that in the effort to remove him M. Daladier, who was then Prime Minister, offered him the post of Governor of Morocco (one of the great prizes of the French colonial service). At' that time there was agitation for the removal of M. Chiappe, and M. Daladier took this way out, but did not succeed in getting rid-of the Chief of Police in the way he had hoped. Later, M. Chiappe was known to have been behind’the plans for some of the demonstrations of pro-Fascist and semi-Fascist organisations in France. On one occasion at least these demonstrations threatened to create disorder.

PRESIDENCY OF FINLAND

RESIGNATION OF M. KALLIO

LONDON, November 28. A message from Helsinki reports that M. KalUo has resigned the Presidency of Finland because of ill-health.