TURKEY’S DELIGHT

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21357, 27 February 1941, Page 7

TURKEY’S DELIGHT

MR EDEN’S ARRIVAL BALKANS ELECTRIFIED GENERAL STAFF TALKS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 26 The Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir John Dill, have arrived in Turkey. They are accompanied by a staff of officials. Mr Eden will remain in Ankara for at least three days, states another report. He will then go to Athens. The arrival of Mr Eden and General Dill, with 13 officials—including Lieutenant-General J. H. Marshall-Cornwall—for talks with ! the Turkish Government and General Staff, has electrified the Balkans and deighted the Turks, whose pleasure at this demonstration that Britain is actively behind them far outweighs consideration of German disapproval of the visit. Representatives of the Turkish Government and British emissaries went to Adana, 'near the’ Syrian border, to meet Mr Eden and General Dill, and joined the train for Ankara with., them. The party commenced preliminary talks immediately. The Turkish radio says Mr Eden raised a cheer from the soldiers who formed a guard of honour at Adana, when he addressed them in Turkish. Anglo-Bulgarian Relations The British Legation at Sofia, Bulgaria, has destroyed its confidential documents and the families of the Minister, Mr George Rendel, and his staff have gone to Istanbul. About 70 Britons, mostly persons officially employed, remain in Bulgaria. Mr Rendel said the breaking off of relations with Bulgaria would depend on the decision as to when German infiltration of the country amounts to occupation. The weather in western and southern Bulgaria is bad. Rainstorms have rendered the roads unsuitable for heavy traffic and the River Danube is still swollen. It is reliably stated in Sofia that Russia has informed all Balkan Governments that she will not intervene in Balkan events in any way likely to cause an armed conflict with Germany. General von Greifenberg, FieldMarshal List’s assistant and partner in the over-runing of Denmark, Belgium and Holland, has arrived m Rumania. The arrival of more Stuka dive-bombers makes 650 German aeroplanes in Rumania of a type suitable for the support of a ground offensive. It is reliably stated in Belgrade that the German army i'n Rumania has been strengthened in the past three weeks by the addition of 100,000 troops, and now totals 450,000 men, representing 23 divisions, of which 14 are stationed along the Danube. Defence of Frontiers M. Kusheff, the new Minister of Agriculture in Bulgaria, i'n a speech said: “We must be ready to defend our frontiers. The Government has taken certain measures. Surprise must not be excluded. We have mobilised and taken all steps to preserve our independence. We must be ready at any mement. The people cannot sit with folded hands if danger threatens.” Lieutenant - General Marshal - Cornwall, who was a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 191*9, served in the Army of the Black Sea from 1920 to 1923 and acted as British delegate on the Thracian Boundary Commission, 1924-25. In 1938 he was appointed Director-General of Air and Coast Defence at the War Office. WORK IN GERMANY CALL TO ITALIANS (United press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 27, 1.0 p.m.) ROME, Feb. 26 The Lavoro Fascista has printed a full-page advertisement calling on drivers, mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and engineers of 35 to 36 years age groups to register immediately to take up work in Germany.