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Southland Times, Issue 24497, 26 July 1941, Page 8

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POSSIBLE NAZI MOVE ATTACK ON TURKEY PREDICTED (Rec. 2.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. The belief is strongly held that Hitler intends to attack Turkey as part of a scheme to seize the oil-fields at Baku and use the Dardanelles to link his operations in the Black Seat with those in the Mediterranean. Ankara at present is being subjected to an intense political blitzkrieg by the Nazi Ambassador, Baron Franz von Papen, whose military demands accompanied by economic concessions are far beyond anything the Turks expected. Meanwhile, according to The New York Times correspondent German agents in Teheran are attempting to foment disorders and inflame the Armenian population to sabotage and revolt against the Government. QUESTION ABOUT AMERICAN TROOPS IN EGYPT NEW YORK, July 25. The New York-Herald-Tribune says that Senator Burton K. Wheeler, the isolationist leader, has written to the Secretary of War, Mr H. L. Stimson, demanding to know whether it is true that American troops have already landed in Egypt. The question involves a large number of troops. Mr Stimson probably received the inquiry on Thursday morning, but he has not yet answered. SIR EVELYN WRENCH WAS VICTIM OF HOAX SYDNEY, July 25. Undergraduates today confessed that last night’s “kidnapping” of Sir Evelyn Wrench was a hoax in retaliation for his refusal to address a meeting of the University Union on Wednesday (which the students themselves boycotted, only a mere handful attending). Sir Evelyn today has taken the incident in good part and is now prepared to admit that he was the victim of a students’ prank. He said he was well aware of what students were capable of doing, but he felt he was entitled to some sort of apology, in which case he would take the case out of the hands of the detectives.