TURKISH WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 5

TURKISH WARNING

Turkey has chartered steamers to evacuate her nationals from Rumania. Turkish newspapers warn the Axis against attempts to intimidate Greece and Turkey. Trainloads of German soldiers are rolling across Hungary to Rumania. Probably 50,000 are already in Rumania. A motorised division of 15,000 has arrived at Ploesti. According to a Sofia dispatch received in Istanbul, Hungarian diplomats expect Germany to assist Bulgarian action against Greece and Yugoslavia as a preliminary to a campaign against Turkey. This belief is based on the number of German tourists arriving in Bulgaria. GERMANS IN BULGARIA It is reliably estimated that there are now 20,000 Germans in Bulgaria, compared with a normal 3000. The newcomers include 3500 German soldiers and also several hundred pilots and tank-drivers who will fly the aircraft and drive the tanks Germany has been delivering to Bulgaria in much larger numbers than can be used by the technical personnel of the Bulgarian army. The Germans are concentrated in large towns which are important railway junctions or on the Black Sea. The vital role of these German troops will be to assist the police in the event of a revolt, which can be expected if Bulgaria is pushed into war on Germany’s side and if Russia disapproves. BRITONS & TURKS GETTING OUT OF RUMANIA. ARRIVALS EXPECTED AT ISTANBUL. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) | ISTANBUL, October 16. Cabinet is believed to have discussi ed Turkey’s relation with the Ruman- ' ian situation. Three hundred refugees, including Britons who said they had been through hell at the hands of the Iron Guard, have arrived at Constanza. A shipload of Turks is expected today and the remainder of the British colony tomorrow. NAZI CONTROL OVER RUMANIAN OIL OUTPUT. ROME, October 16. The newspaper “11 Telegrafo” says Germany has assumed control of the entire collection of Rumanian oil and is fixing quotas for Greece and Turkey. The German High Command spokesman said Germany's reserves of all types of fuel oil.were 1,000,000 tons

above those at the outbreak of the war. Germany was amply supplied without Rumanian oil, but with it she had more than enough.