SOVIET HORDES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23595, 2 March 1940, Page 11

SOVIET HORDES

MOSCOW'S CALL MIDDLE EAST " «TURKEY PREPARED jWHATEVER MAY COME By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 1, 5.35 p.m.) ' LONDON, March 1 "We call every man able to bear arms" said the Moscow radio today. "We call all the Caucasus and Turkestan and the Cossack legions. It is your help upon which we rely. Yfe beat the White armies 20 years ago. We are sure that you will be loyal again." A. despatch from Istanbul says the Prime Minister of Turkey, Dr. Reyfik Saydam, in a broadcast, said: <ij speak to you on the last day of our preparations. Turkey has prepared intensively for 12 months and now is ready for whatever comes. "\V'3 have spent £30,000,000 on the grmy in the past year, and that is not the full extent of our preparations. Nevertheless, the application of the emergency law does not mean that Turkey is preparing for war against Russia. Turkey will -enter'the war only when her national interests and existence Jire vitally threatened. "Our relations with Russia have not changed in the past six months. We do not wish to move against the i- iet, we see no reason for a Russian attack on us. "The crisis which has covered a large : part of the world is now at our doors, but our participation in it and our foreign policy will not be influenced by outside combinations" ,