CLOSER TOGETHER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 5

CLOSER TOGETHER

TURKEY AND GERMANY CORDIALITY OF RELATIONS SAFER FEELING IN ANKARA LONDON, Oct. 13. “Turkey feels safe for the winter because she is now on friendly terms with both Germany and Russia,” says the Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Mail. A decisive German victory, however, would undoubtedly push her closer to Germany. The Turks eagerly await President Inonu’s speech on October 29, when the Turks believe that the result of the offensive against Moscow will be known. Turkish newspapers meantime emphasise the cordiality of TurkishGerman relations. They say that England and America are unable effectively to help Russia before the spring. They also comment on the British refusal to establish a second European front and the failure of the R.A.F. to bomb .Berlin regularly, which would have an immense effect on neutral countries, and expressed the opinion that this was the only way seriously to affect German morale.

German propaganda is beginning to build up tbs legend that, owing to the despatch of planes to Russia,»the R.A.F. is not strong enough for more than routine raids against the Ruhr and the Rhineland. The Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Express quotes M. Gerede, the Turkish Ambassador in Berlin, as saying that Germany is printing Turkey's new note issue. Britain printed the last issue, but a German bomb blew up the ship taking it to Turkey in the Piraeus Harbour, scattering the notes for miles. Street urchins stuffed their pockets with thousands of Turkish pounds.