FOREIGN POLICY OF TURKEY

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23976, 17 June 1943, Page 5

FOREIGN POLICY OF TURKEY

STATEMENT BY MR SARACOGLU future viewed with SATISFACTION ” (K.Z, Press Association—Copyright) (Pec. II pm.) LONDON, June 16. “We look on the future with satisfaction," said Turkey’s Prime Minister (Mr Saracoglu), speaking over the Ankara radio at the conclusion of the People’s Party Congress. “Turkey in (he last four years has several times been faced with the danger of war. but we have been saved from these dangers by Ataturk’s good policy, which we have followed. "The Russians stretched out their hands to us and we clasped them, consolidating our relations with the Russians with cordial agreements. We also signed an alliance with Britain. Germany also descended on the Balkans and stretched out her hand to us. We signed an agreement of nonaggression and friendship with her which has since proved that it ensures the real needs of Germany and Turkey. “This policy has saved us from the danger of war.” MOBILISATION OF DUTCH LABOUR GERMAN PLANS FAIL WARNING OF FURTHER MEASURES (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. "The German compulsory labour mobilisation in Holland has resulted in only' 50 men reporting for service,” tay/ the diplomatic correspondent of th| ‘Daily Telegraph,” quoting a 8(..;h underground source. "The Germans, by removing the ban on public gatherings, and reopening cinemas, cafes, and sports grounds, are tempting the Dutch to gather in large numbers, with the object of carrying out large-scale raids to bring in as many work people as possible.” , The following warning to the people of Holland was given by radio from England to-night: “The head of the German police in the Netherlands, the notorious Routers, is planning to hold shortly new razzias on the largest scale throughout the country. As far as we know it is his intention to begin the day after to-morrow, Thursday, with a mass check-up of identity cards and other papers of identification on the streets and in houses. He is also planning the organisation of a special slave drive in a week’s time, namely, Friday, June 25, of those people who so far have evaded registration by disappearing. "It is not difficult to guess what the Gormans hope to achieve by this. They have made the most extensive preparations and mobilised all the forces they can command in order to make these razzias as effective as possible. We are convinced that all good Netherlander will help each other as much as possible in order to cause the German plans to fail.” The Germans shot three foremen of the Philips works at Eindhoven' and publicly exhibited the corpses, when workers laid down tools during the May strikes in Holland, after the reImprisonment of the former Dutch Army, according to reports reaching London. The Germans simultaneously took as hostages 60 employees of the Dutch Unilever concern, and threatened them with death unless work was resumed Immediately. Not all the hostages were Pleased when the strike ended. TEN ALSATIANS EXECUTED helped french prisoners TO ESCAPE •Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. A Zurich message says that 10 Alsatians have been executed, principally lo r aiding the escape of French war Prisoners and posting up caricatures. Nazi official killed LONDON, June 15. One Nazi official was killed and * fi veral others seriously wounded shots wore exchanged during an attempt by 20 F-’cnchmen to release “iree of their comrades destined for labour service in Germany. ■Jnis was announced by the Gcrmanrontrolled Paris radio, which said that v.® . af i <r,c kers used tommy-guns and ‘ viyprs. The 20 Frenchmen are now Wlj tr arrest. Tutors for Europe’s Farms.—One me problems of the rehabilitation t i“ uro P9 an agriculture after the war m , e ser i°us shortage of draught anila 1 because of German seizures on a thou scale ~is now being solved at t «£Fy Ford Institute of Agriculin m Engineering, Essex. Instruction use of tractors has been arSevo« a , nd J - our Czc chs. three Greeks, j , three Jugoslavs have nded the first course. The course m»n*? r n angef l by the Allied Requiretoni S ?j r ? au and aims at forming a '-Hum. , lver instructors for Europe. ftu ßby, June 15.