REPORTED ENTRY INTO BULGARIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 5

REPORTED ENTRY INTO BULGARIA

Vanguard of 120,000 Men

TORRENTIAL RAIN DELAYS ARRIVAL OF NAZI FIGHTERS

NAVAL RATINGS AT VARIOUS CENTRES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON. February 26. The Budapest correspondent of the international News Service (New York) says reports from Sofia state that 12.000 German troops entered Bulgaria from Rumania, forming the vanguard of 120.000 men who are soon to stream across the Danube to confront Greece. The Bulgarian Cabinet met in an emergency session alter a conference between the Premier, M. Filoff. Foreign .Minister. M. Popoff, and Chief of Staff, M. Petkoff. Torrential rain which has fallen in west Bulgaria in the last 24 hours is likely to waterlog Sofia’s two airports, delaying the arrival of 100 German fighters which were promised for today as protection against British and possible* Turkish raids which the Bulgars have been told to expect. The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ Belgrade correspondent says a considerable number of German naval ratings have arrived in Vienna, Linz and elsewhere in Austria. Their destinations are variously conjectured as the Danube. Black Sea and Adriatic.

Turkish Friendship

VISIT OF MR EDEN & SIR JOHN DILL

ARRIVAL OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS

Spontaneous expressions of cordiality are expressed by Turkish papers throughout the country in respect to the visit of Mr. Eden and Sir John Dill, states the U.B.C. !• very where they go they are received with overwhelming expressions ot Turkish friendship. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador in Russia, has arrived at Istanbul, in a Soviet plane, lie left immediately by plane for Ankara.