TURKS READY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 6

TURKS READY

IF WAR CALL COMES

AS NEVER BEFORE IN THEIR HISTORY.

ACCORDING TO BRITISH CORRESPONDENT.

'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)

'Received This Day. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON. January 20. The Turks are ready to march, says the “Daily Mairs" Istanbul correspondent. For the past eighteen months, Turkey has been steadily preparing for war and now she is ready as never before in her history,

This readiness is not only a question of arms, planes and men. but also of morale, which has been educated to i point where the transition from non-belligerence to war could be accomplished without dislocation of the country s daily life. Axis pressure and threats, and misunderstandings with Bulgaria, the German occupation of Rumania and Russia’s serpentine policy have barely touched the surface of Turkish policy, which has not' varied a fraction since it was publicly declared in October, 1939, when mutual assistance pacts with Britain and France were signed. Turkey will enter the war if Germany attacks Greece. If German troops march through Bulgaria for that purposK Turkish troop's will march at the same time to bar their way. acting as Bulgaria’s ally, but if need be as her enemv.