TURKISH COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 12

TURKISH COMMENT

MOVE IN RUMANIA

POSSIBLE OVER-RUNNING OF

GREECE

LONDON. October 11

The German penetration into Rumania was discussed tonight in a commentary broadcast by the official Turkish wireless station at Ankara. It was stated that Britain had won the defensive war and suggested that Germany and Italy may be planning a knock-out blow from a more vulnerable point before . Britain gets too strong. If the Germans intended to penetrate to the Near Eastern oilfields through Turkey, it was stated, they surely knew that the road would not be easy, but on the contrary very difficult. As to any designs on Greece, the Turkish wireless took the view that even if Greece were overrun by the Axis Powers there would still be the sea between that country and the Near East, and as the sea was still ruled by the British Navy the hostile armies would still be just onlookers. This is the first authoritative comment from Tux-key on the Rumanian situation, possibly because Turkey has had as much difficulty as Britain in finding out what was really going on.

BRITISHERS TO LEAVE

RUMANIA

(Received October 12, 2.15 p.m.)

LONDON, October 11

The British Legation in Bucharest has instructed all Britishers who wish to do so to leave Rumania immediately. The British colony consists.of 400 persons, many of whom are already packing. It is intended that they shall depart at the weekend. Instructions to leave arrived from London as Sir Reginald Hoare was in the midst of conferences with long queues of Britishers.