THE NAZI ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1941, Page 7

THE NAZI ATTACK

IN TWO OR THREE WEEKS

TURKISH ESTIMATES

HOPES OF JAPAN

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received February 18, noon.)

LONDON, February 17.

Turkish official circles, while not defining Turkey's attitude in the case of German partial and total occupation of Bulgaria, declare that she will not commit the blunder of allowing the establishment of bases in Bulgaria for ultimate aggression, says the Istanbul correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company.

Most estimates, the correspondent states, give only twb or three weeks before the German offensive is launched in the Balkans. Diplomatic circles in contact with the Axis Powers express the opinion that Germany will attack .at several points, choosing a weak spot for the decisive blow, and that she hopes to bring Japan into the war with a view to immobilising the maximum number of British forces in the various theatres of war.

The Ankara radio states that all lighthouses have been blacked out in a zone extending 15 miles-south and north of Constahza. The entire area has been declared dangerous for shipping.

An Istanbul message states that the final phases of repression disturbances in Rumania have enabled Germany to secure control of the railways, telephones, and police. German effectives comprise half a million men, the greater part of whom are immobilised in Moldavia along the Soviet frontier.