NAZI THREATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1940, Page 5

NAZI THREATS

NOW DIRECTED AGAINST TURKEY FOLLOWING ON MOLOTOV'S DEPARTURE. SPECULATION REGARDING STRAITS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh LONDON, November 14. Soon after M. .Molotov’s departure from Berlin, the Germans began to threaten Turkey, declaring she must decide whether to join with Ihe forces shaping the new order.

Swedish correspondents in Germany, quoting Russian circles, say an agreement has apparently been reached whereby Russia will increase supplies to Germany. Anglo-Russian collaboration is now unlikely. Russia will probably claim control of the European shores of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, compensating Turkey at the expense of Iraq and Syria. The majority of the guests at Molotov's dinner were industrialists, suggesting that the discussions were mainly economic, but the participation of Baron von Richtofen from Sofia indicates that south-eastern policy was discussed.' Bulgaria hopes for economic territorial benefits. The Turkish newspaper “Ikdam” says that German domination of the Balkans and Dardanelles would be equivalent to throttling Russia. It was inconceivable that Russia would deliver to the Axis a region which was a zone of security for her from all viewpoints. Count Csaky, Foreign Minister, said in the Hungarian Parliament that defeat for the Axis would mean that Hungary’s star would wane, but such an eventuality was neither militarily, politically nor economically to be feared. The Government and a majority of the opposition agreed with Axis policy. “We hail the tripartite. pact and hope this new centre of diplomatic strength will make its beneficent effect felt in our relations with our neighbours’.

A political commentator was broadcasting tonight from Deutschlandsender (German radio station) on the Molotov visit, and had just referred to an “unsuccessful attempt by British raiders to embarrass our Soviet guest,” when another voice hurriedly urged listeners to tune in elsewhere.

VARIOUS VERSIONS NAZI AND SOVIET AIMS. LONDON, November 14. The talks this afternoon between Hitler and Molotov lasted for three hours. The Turkish Ambassador visited the German Foreign Office during the talks. The object of the visit has not been divulged. A telegram from Helsinki indicates that Turkey, India, and the Dardanelles were the most important problems discussed. Hitler’s earlier plans for the new order in Europe recognised Britain's right to retain Canada. Australia, and India, but India is now discussed as the eventual object of Russian expansion, as a result of the British determination to continue the war. Such a development, it is claimed, would be advantageous to Japan, as it would isolate General Chiang Kai-Shek. Other Berlin messages reiterate the desire of the Axis Powers to keep out of Turkey. Berlin recognises that conflicting Italian and Russian interests complicate problems in the Balkans, and difficulties may arise through the expansionist ambitions of two Powers clashing over the Dardanelles.

SOVIET DENIAL NO ARGEEMENT WITH JAPAN LONDON, November 15. The official Russian news agency has issued a communique on the visit of M. Molotov to Berlin which is identical with the German communique on the subject. It denies the report that Japan has agreed with Russia on a division of spheres of influence in the East. In some circles in Berlin it is believed that no document was signed during M. Molotov’s visit.

ANOTHER DENIAL REPORTS DO NOT CORRESPOND WITH REALITY. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, November 15. The Tass Agency denies American reports of a Japanese-Soviet agreement, defining spheres of influence in the Far East and providing for a cessation of Soviet assistance to Chungking. The agency declares: “The reports do not correspond with reality.”

JAPANESE HOPES PACT DESIRED WITH SOVIET. TOKIO, November 15. It is authoritatively indicated that the Government is hoping that M. Molotov's Berlin conversations will expedite the conclusion of a Russo-Jap-anese pact. However, it is uncertain, pending a report from the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Lieutenant General Tatckawa, whether anything other than Russian and German considerations in the Balkans was actually discussed in Berlin.