TO VISIT THE KING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 7

TO VISIT THE KING

Former Postal Official

(Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 22. A former employee of the British General Post Office is to visit Buckingham Palace shortly with Lord Willingdon to deliver to their Majesties the gifts presented by the Arawa Maoris at the time of the New Zealand Centennial celebrations. The former postal employee is Mr. W. J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, who was in charge of the painting shop at the Post Office headquarters before he migrated to New Zealand in 1904.—8.0. W.

passage through Batum and Iran to Irak. The Russian-German negotiations will provide a lever for putting pressure on Turkey.

The Germans at present are not demanding anything from Turkey except the largest possible extension of mutual trade.

Sixteen Axis merchantmen passed through the Bosphorus towards the Aegean Sea after the defeat of Greece. Their cargoes were suspect, but the Turks have no rights of control.

Turkish opinion strongly supports the British action in Irak, according to responsible quarters in Ankara. The newspaper "Yeni Sabah," for instance, deplores the fact that Irak has fallen a victim to the German intrigues. "The Irakis," it says, "should recollect that they owe their independence to the British, who, if they had wished. could have remained in occupation and governed the country as a colony." MORTAL DANGER SEEN. A writer in the "Yeni Sabah" says: "It is Turkey's duty to prevent Germany from establishing herself in Irak and Syria. If Germany installs troops in Syria Turkey will be in mortal danger. We shall be forced to intervene. We must maintain contact with our British allies and keep open the road to the outside world." The newspaper "Cumhuriyet" recalls that Britain voluntarily surrendered her mandate over Irak and sponsored the latter's admission to the League of Nations as an independent State, "and consequently it is impossible to suspect the British of designs on Irak's independence."

Other newspapers emphasise that these events which are occurring in her southern zone of security interest Turkey as much as the Balkans question, and they also attack Vichy's "ignominious role."—U.P.A. and 8.0. W.