MUST TURKEY FIGHT?

Evening Star, Issue 23866, 22 April 1941, Page 7

MUST TURKEY FIGHT?

GERMAN REMANDS RUMOURED RENUNCIATION OF BRITISH ALLIANCE FREE HARD FOR HITLER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 21. (Received April 22, at 12.5 p.m.) Germany plans within a fortnight to demand that Turkey shall renounce her alliance with Britain and give Hitler a free hand in Western Asia, says the ‘ Mail’s * Istanbul correspondent. Turkey will refuse these demands, because they are more than she can concede without loss of her honour. The Gorman demands to be made explain Berlin’s announcement that von Papen, now in Berlin, will not return to Turkey for a fortnight. Hitler has apparently calculated that by that time Greek resistance will have been broken, and he intends that von Papen shall return to Turkey armed with a new German victory. ' The Ankara radio is urging Turkish women to register for service under the Red Crescent, as they needed to be ready to bandage the wounds of Turkish' soldier’s, said the announcer.

INSPIRING EXAMPLE

m CHURCHILL S LEADERSHIP NO WORDS OF REPROACH (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 20. Criticism of the abuse of free speech was made by Mr A. P. Herbert, M.P., in. a broadcast on Sunday. Parliament and the Press and private citizens, said Mr Herbert, had on the whole made fine and fair use of the ration of free speech, and the Government had wiselyallowed them. “ But,” he said, “ there are those who go about picking small holes in vast problems, and there are those who express tremendous faith in their leaders or their country as long as all goes well, but when anything goes wrong they will be found to have said all along that the move was mistaken. Each is abusing the privilege of free speech. It is the easiest thing in the world to pick, holes, and it is not always the best way to mend the situation. We can face the facts and still be fair; we can be hopeful and resolute without incurring a charge* of complacency.” Mr Herbert concluded: “ Let us try to follow the example of our great leader, Mr Churchill, who enjoys the greatest freedom of speech in the country. If ever in history a man was entitled to paint on his banner a vast ‘ 1 told you so,’ it is he, but he has never said that, and as far is a know he has never uttered a word of reproach for all those in every party who would not listen to him before. Mr Churchill is as magnanimous in triumph as ho is resolute in defeat. He has forgotten all that—or put it aside. He says nothing but what is necessary for our one great purpose.”

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

MR GANDHI ADAMANT DISREGARDS INDIAN LEADERS' APPEAL LONDON. April 21. (Deceived April 22, at 11 a.m.) Mr Gandhi has declined to heed the appeal from the Indian leaders to discontinue his campaign of civil disobedience, says the British United Press correspondent at Bombay.

Mr Gandhi denied absolutely that the movement was against the Muslims or against the British, bat said that if Britain were only true to India everything could be settled satisfactorily. Unfortunately the British statesmen had chosen the wrong path to put imaginary obstacles in the way of India’s freedom.

AIR RAID CASUALTIES

INJURED NEW ZEALAND NAVAL RATINGS [Pen United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. April 22. The Hon. F. Jones has announced the following casualties to. New Zealand ratings serviug with the Royal Navy who were slightly injured in an air raid:— Ordinary Seaman Robert Alexander Charles Cheyne; father, Mr P. M. Cheyne, Wellington. Acting Leading Airman Vincent Herbert Hatchard; mother, Mrs G. H. Hatchard, Wellington. , Naval Airman (Second Class) John Allnntt Pickard; father, Mr J. Pickard, Invercargill. Ordinary seaman John Irvine Brent; father, Mr H. Brent, Dunedin. Able Seaman Maurice Thurlow, R. (New Zealand); father, Mr S. C. Thurlow, Lyttelton. The following is reported seriously injured in the same air raid:—Ordinary Seaman Robert Lome Campbell; mother, Mrs C. M. Campbell, Auckland. NEW ZEALAND AIR CASUALTY [Pen United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 21. The following New Zealand casualty is announced: — Pilot-officer James Leon Wilkie, previously reported missing, now presumed killed‘in the R.A.F. in June, 1940. His mother is Mrs A. N. Georgetti, care of New Zealand House, London. Pilotofficer Wilkie was born in Perth in 1919 and educated at St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream. At the time of his appointment to a short-service commission in January, 1939, he was residing at Fordcll.