THE NEAR EAST

Grey River Argus, 18 January 1940, Page 8

THE NEAR EAST

WAR PREPARATIONS Allied Aid for Turks [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] ANKARA, January 16. The Defence Ministry has incrouuced a Bill, urgentl yasking for an ad ditional extraordinary credits, for military requirements. The Turkish Government has asked the National Assembly urgently to pass the Bill ensuring national defence and national economy in the event of Turkey being involved m war. * . ~ Britain and France are to provide for a credit of £25,000,000 for armaments, a loan of £15,000,000 and a commercial loan of £3,500,000. LONDON, January 16. The Pdjne Minister, in his, war review in Parliament, stated that, under the agreement signed in Paris on January 8, the British and Frencn Governments undertook to lend Turkey 125,000,000 for armaments purchased in the United Kingdom ana France, £15,000,000 in gold and £3,500,000 to liquidate arrears in the Anglo-Turkish and Franco-Turkish clearings. Interest and sinking fund would be paid for in Turkish goods, particularly tobacco. The Britisn ana French Governments had also undertaken to purchase annually £2,001),000 worth of Turkish dried fruits. He hoped that the Mediterranean area would long continue to be spared the suffering and horror qf war. The British and French Governments were giving further help to the Turkish earthquake relief fund. In addition to money, they were sending food, medical stores, anthblankgts. BUCHAREST, January 16.

Princess Juana Cantacuzene, a soliety belle, aged 19, has been interned on a charge of assisting the outlawed Iron Guard.