ON TURKEY’S BORDER
Russian Troops Concentrating
A Formidable “Bargaining Weapon”
(Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. , Russian troops in Bulgaria have taken up tactical positions, only a short distance from the Turkish border, says the Associated Press correspondent in Sofia. Military observers believe that the dispositions are being made as a bargaining weapon. Few people in Sofia believe that Russia would endanger world peace with an attack on Turkey. It is reliably estimated that there are 200,000 Russian troops in Bulgaria, only part of whom are considered to form the army of occupation. , Troops, armed with newly-arrived tanks and artillery, have been crossing the Danube in a fairly constant stream for several weeks. Quantities of heavy armament and some troops are being brought in from Western Rumania, and the number of tanks moving through the Sofia area has sharply increased.
Bulgarian, forces are, reported' to be manning the actual frontier l’egions, while the Russian forces are farther back from the border. The Bulgarian forces, however, are well salted with Russian training staffs.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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172ON TURKEY’S BORDER Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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