NAZIS' SUMMONS TO MINISTERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23718, 26 July 1940, Page 7

NAZIS' SUMMONS TO MINISTERS

ANXIETY TO KEEP PEACE TURKEY MASSES TROOPS AT BORDER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 25, 7.10 p.m.) XONBOST, July 25 Germany's conferences this week-end with leaders of Balkan States have been expanded to include Slovakia? and possibly Hungary. The official German news agency says the impending visit by Balkan statesmen is intended to regulate and stabilise conditions in south-eastern Europe in a peaceful manner. Economic questions will figure largely in the discussions. • The Rumanian Prime Minister, Dr. Gigurtu, and the Foreign Ministei', M. Manoilescu, will be the first Balkan Ministers to meet the German representatives. They will meet Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, at: Salzburg on Friday, and will meet Mussolini in Rome on Saturday. The Bulgarian representatives will be Professor Filoff, the Prime Minister, and M. Popoff, Foreign Minister. Slovakia will be represented by its president, Dr. Tise, and Prime Minister, M. Tuka. Neutral correspondents in the Balkan capitals consider the conferences represent the initial move on the part of the- Axis Powers to formulate Hitler's boasted " new order in Europe." The immediate cause is Hitler's urgent desire for peace in the Balkans in order to obtain constant supplies of war materials, particularly oil. The Hungarian Foreign Office's organ Pester Lloyd, says: " After the settlement of problems between Rumania and Hungary through the peaceful cession to Hungary of parts of Transylvania, Rumania and Hungary will sign a pact of friendship." According to the Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Mail, more and more German troops are marching into Slovakia and German-occupied Poland, and Russia is increasingly alarmed at Germany's south-eastern moves. A message from Istanbul says the 1911, 1912 and 19J 3 classes have been called up for service in the Turkish Army. Reinforcements are continually going to Thrace, and'-there are at least 20 divisions now in Turkey-in-Europe. ; The German ambassador to Turkey, Von Papen, has gone to Berlin under Hitler's instructions. / In Ankara, the Anatolian news agency denied that Turkey and Rumania had broken off trade talks, under which petrol is already being exchanged for Turkish wool and mohair.