NAZI PREPARATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 5

NAZI PREPARATIONS

GIGANTIC SPRING MOVE INDICATIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE LARGE-SCALE TROOP MOVEMENTS. ■IG n—Copyright.) i»it* Ankara correspoitaeiit oi The limes, Mr. Sulzberger, says tnat inuica»ions from ah quarters m Eastern Europe prove gigantic German preparations for a ui specFive Bulgarian divisions have been sent to luguslavia io relieve tne German ioi s tor servn in iVussia. me entire ran traffic has been suspenueu for vast military movements 01 troops mobilised in Hungary, oiovaKia anu Rumania to reimorce the Ax.s armies in Russia, increasing German pressure al Madrid lias resulted in the dispatch o; a new Spanish air force as support tor the battered Germans. Axis barges ** ♦ *♦*♦*♦♦ ♦ <♦ w »<,-«■ .4- *

are clustering ai Biack Sea ports for • the invasion of Russian shorts. Germany is exerting inhuman pressure * against the occupied countries witn| the object of increasing war productions. For example, iorued labour has' been decreed for the entire populations oi Bessarabia between the ages of 12 1 and 70. Mr. Sulzberger says Turkish public| opinion, despite the German prepara- I tions, does not expect that a crisis | against Turkey is imminent because I the Nazis are tied up in Russia and Egypt and are unable to open up a • new front now, but Turkey is serious-' ly concerned by an eventual Japanese * menace from the east, since the! Japanese military attache at Ankara 1 has openly predicted that the Japanese ! would occupy Calcutta by the middle, 1 of April. It is felt that the Axis could* force Turkey into a precarious position if a successful spring offensive! against Russia should result in the oc- ! cunation of the Caucasus, thereby out- i flanking Turkey from north and west, • while the Japanese were menacing l ; from India.