MOSCOW VISITS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 5

MOSCOW VISITS

MINISTER FROM TURKEY ENVOY OF ESTHONIA FRESH INFLUENCE HINTED BALKANS AND BALTIC (Reed. Sept. 26, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Moscow correspondent of the Copenhagen paper Politiken reports that the Turkish Foreign- Minister, Sarajoglu Bey, arrived to-day in Moscow, where the view is taken that Turkey desires a guarantee against German action in the Balkans, while Prussia wants security against foreign warships being allowed in the Black Sea, via the Dardanelles. The Moscow correspondent of the New York Times says that the Estonian Foreign Minister has arrived at Moscow. The Estonian Legation maintains that the visit is connected with commercial relations and has no political purpose, but the Soviet is confident that it will result at least in increased Soviet influence in the Baltic States. Troops on Finnish Frontier Significantly, Soviet troops on the Russia,n-Finnish frontier are constantly increasing. Finland is -preparing to resist an invasion. The Soviet is reported to be refusing to permit Finnish vessels a passage through Leningrad via the Neva. The London correspondent of the New York Times says that the situation in the Balkans turns towards the creation of a bloc of concerted neutral nations, embracing all the Balkan States, guaranteed by Russia, Turkey and Italy. “The Balkans appear to be excluded for good from the theatre of war, protecting the Mediterranean and restricting German military activity,” confinues the correspondent. “Turkey sponsored the move, which Russia and Italy are supporting for different reasons. “Herr Hitler is thrown back in the east, where he was able to crush the Poles at a price, allowing Russia to marshal over 100 divisions on the Vistula-Carpathians line, thus creating the permanent menace of a stab in Germany’s back immediately she weakens in the west. Germany has also lost the Ukraine and the prospect of” seizing Rumania’s economic resources.”