GERMANS MAY ATTACK THE DARDANELLES
MOVE IN SEPTEMBER? MENACE REGARDED BY TURKEY AS “PREMATURE” London, July 30. The Associated Press correspondent in Ankara (Turkey) says that diplomatic dispatches from Bulgaria report that German naval personnel have arrived at Varna and Burgas, possibly to prepare operations against the Russian fleet or the Dardanelles. Travellers report seeing 120 naval signallers, engineers, and officers on board a train en route to the Black Sea. Several hundred others are understood to have been assigned to Bulgaria. Turkish officials regard the Axis menace to the Dardanelles as “premature." but many observers consider tha 1 a lightning attack might be made in September, depending on Germany's progress against Russia U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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