NAZI TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 5

NAZI TROOPS

PASSING THROUGH BULGARIA | — < NOT APPROVED BY SOVIET. REPORTED AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY. i 'Bx Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON. January 6. The Sofia correspondent of the Associated Press reports that high functionaries of the Russian Foreign Office who have arrived at Sofia denied that the Soviet had given approval to the i passage of German troops through Bulgaria. They added that Russia and Turkey had muted to refuse such passage and that thousands of Turkish troops were concentrated on the Bulgarian frontier. MOSCOW DENIAL MINISTER NOT RECALLED FROM BUCHAREST. MOSCOW. January 6. The Tass news agency denied a report that the Soviet Minister had been recalled from Bucharest. GERMAN PLANES LOAN TO BULGARIA REPORTED. BUDAPEST, January G. It is reported that Germany has lent Bulgaria 2500 warplanes and also sent many anti-aircraft crews to Rumania. TURKEY WILL FIGHT IF NAZIS MOVE ACROSS BULGARIA. STATEMENT BY OFFICIALS IN ISTANBUL LONDON, January 7. A message from Istanbul (Turkey) states that officials reaffirmed that if German forces are moved across Bulgaria to attack Greece. Turkey will fight. In Sofia (Bulgaria) today, military observers said they believed that floods in south-eastern Bulgaria at present make impossible any largescale military operations in that region and even concentrations on the Turkish side of the frontier.

The Sofia correspondent if the Associated Press of Great Britain says diplomatists consider that Turkish resistance to a German push is still likely, in spile of German reports to the contrary The secretary of the Soviet Legation said, "The report that the Soviet Union concurs with a German entry of Bulgaria is entirely unknown and generally not clear to me. There are 100 many reports and rumours about Russia and they should not be Taken seriously."