Tension in Soviet Acute
General Mobilisation Reported BALTIC FLEET ON THE ALERT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 16. Reports of heightening tension between Germany and Russia are still being received from all parts of Europe. ! i key include one repoxt from Ankara J.iat Rusis.a has declared general mobilisation and cancelled army, leave, uud .:10thor from Stockholm stating that • erman shipping has been recalled from io Baltic and tiiat the Soviet battle jet is “in a state of alarm.’’ Germany is demanding from Russia ' ill control of the Ukraine and a pas- ' nge for German troops across Caucasia, j .om which area she could dominate tho j .ussian oilfields and refineries ami I. lonaco Iraq and Iran, says I lie Daily telegraph’s diplomatic cor respondent, x'ho Germans are not interested in securing a negotiated settlement, he adds, prefering loampose their will and thus employing thW idle army, which would seek to knock out Russia before British and United States strength became truly formidable. Meanwhile, German u n Turkey has greatly increased. Hitler wishes to “take Turkey coid,” and ib mixing threats with cajolery.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 143, 18 June 1941, Page 5
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