NAZI AMBITION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 139, 14 May 1941, Page 7

NAZI AMBITION

OFFENSIVE VIA TURKEY. CONCENTRATION OF FORCE. United Press Association —Copyright' (10.15) _ NEW YORE, May 13. The New York Times’s Budapest correspondent, Mr Ray I Brock, says that German military I authorities informed him that the German High C'omnpuid would I make a second spring offensive I via Turkey into Iraq and across j Syria, aiming to seize the Britjish petroleum supplies and drive the British from North Africa, between June 1 and 10. The Germans, the correspondent says, are now concentrating in huge numbers at Greek ports and moving steadily via Thrace into Bulgaria to the Turkish frontier, from where they intend to launch an overpowering offensive which is expected to bring Turkey to heel within a fortnight. Air Brock says that despite the insistence J of well-informed Turks that Turkey will fight rather than capitulate, the few remaining neutral diplomats in Belgrade are convinced that Turkey will submit. ACTIVITY AT HAIFA. (Rec. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Alav 13. j According to a Vichy news agency \ message from Beirut, there is great j activity at Haifa. Alto; the operations' in Greece many cargo vessels full of j war material, including tanks, arrived from Britain. The garrisons at Nablus ! and Jenin were reinforced. The frontier of Palestine and Syria is being ' strictly watched.