TURKISH CHROME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 95, 22 April 1944, Page 5

TURKISH CHROME

SUPPLIES FOR GERMANY ARE TO CEASE Recd. 6 p.m. London, April 20. The Turkish Government has decided to prohibit immediately all exports of chrome, according to information reaching London from Ankara. Further details are not yet available. It is not yet clear, lor instance, whether any other exports of war material valuable to the Germans are affected by the embargo. Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says this will deprive Germany of at east half her supplies of this essential alloy of hardening special steels used for armour plate, etc. Germany’s remaining supplies come from Yugoslavia and Greece. “Accepting the policy we adopted in 1939 and which we have since followed, and according to our pact with Britain in 1939, we are not neutral,” said the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr. Menemenjoglu, broadcasting from Ankara radio regarding the prohibition of chrome exports to Axis countries. He added: “A belligerent country’s note to a neutral country asking her not to sell material to a certain country would probably raise the question of the rights of neutral countries and provoke much discussion, but it is necessary for us to consider the Allied note as being not to a neutral country, but as addressed to an ally of the British and their allies.”