HARTER DEAL

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23316, 30 April 1941, Page 7

HARTER DEAL

TURKISH-GERMAN AGREEMENT “ POLITICAL ASPECTS ARE NOT NEGLIGIBLE ” (Received April 29, 11.30 p.m.) LONPON, April 29. A correspondent of “The Times” on the German frontier says that the Turkish-German trade agreement signed during the week-end envisages deliveries of additional goods to the value of £3,000,000 (Turkish) each way- . , . . . The. agreement is on a barter basis between private firms, supplementing the official clearing agreement, which is inadequate to meet Turkish import needs.. ' , ■ Attempts to increase imports from Amerfca have been disappointing, because* the Iraqi * railways are madeq*The Germans will supply pharmaceutical materials, paper, and machinery, and the Turks will supply tobacco and agricultural products. The deal is comparatively small, but tHe products have key importance and the political aspects are not negligible. , . ... . Turkey and Hungary have initialled an agreement to the value . of £20,000,000 (Turkish), by which Turkey exports cotton and wool in exchange for industrial products. GREEK SPIRIT PRAISED BRITISH NEWSPAPER TRIBUTES mo W) ’ RUGBY, April 28. The magnificent spirit in which the Greeks have fought and the true comradeship of arms and the Greek Army, people, and Govern ment have shown to the Forces of .the British Empire which camevto their aid and which shared with them the honours of a hard-contested retreat, have called forth a deep response from the public of Britain. ' The “Manchester Guardian expressed the sentiment of the whole people when it declared: Of all the tragedies of the war, the most poignant is the- tragedy" of Greece. The Greeks have written the most heroic chapter of the war. They have kept alive, too. the spirit by which j they will one day, we will hope and believe. recover .their freedom." The unanimity of sentiment is shown by the closeness of thought which inspired the statement by “The Times, which says: “To all lovers of tradition of liberty, and of that freedom of thought which, with so much else, our world owes to Greece, the occupation of Athens by Nazi troops i one of the cruellest olows free men have endured since Hitler began his career of unbridled aggression. It is bitter to know that the swastika is now flying over a city which in the time of civilisations greatest weakness defied Alaric and his Goths." BRITISH MINISTER IN BELGRADE INIEENMENT BY ITALIANS REPORTED CReceive4 TAP r n ?20. 30-30 p.r0.3 , BUDAPEST, April 28. The American Ambassador in Belgrade (Mr A. B. Lane) has arrived in Budapest from Jugoslavia. He ; said he believed the Italians bad interned Mr R. I. Campbell,-, the British Minister in Belgrade, and his staff, and several other British subjects at-Dubrovnik.