AID TO TURKEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 67, 20 March 1940, Page 5

AID TO TURKEY

I ALLIES’ COMMITMENT I FORM OF ASSISTANCE BEING DISCUSSED COMMONS ANSWER [ British Official Wireless j Received March 19, 0.5 p.m. RUGBY, iviJicn .18. i The Unde i-Secretary u£ foreign I Affairs, Mr. K. A. Butler, < ..sked if, in view of the tael that I i inland is the second country to ! fall in the war of aggression, a { comprehensive plan existed be- - [ tween France and Britain to re-u- • aer immediate military aid to I i Turkey should her integrity be :hreatene..i or if it was expedient • lor her to gu to the aid of a neighj Pouring Stale. i Mr. Buller replied: ' ikßain and (France aie bound by Article Ono of i the treaty of mutual assistance wrji Turkey to <Cve Turkey all the aid and assistant in their power in the event of her being involved in fios- '■ tilities with a European Power in consequence of aggression iyy that i owe,, against Turkey. The form tiidi. that assistance should Lake has been and is the subject of consultation between the three Governments. This consultation will take into account the contingency referred to in the second pari of the question.” Mr. Butler's reply and other House 1 of Commons answers indicated that he will deal in a statement to-morrow witn figures of the material assistance sent to Finland, possibility ot financial assistance in the Finnish rcconstrue- 1 tion, and yesterday’s raid on the Orkneys.