MENACE TO TURKEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 5

MENACE TO TURKEY

BULGARIAN MANOEUVRES CONCENTRATION OF GERMAN DIVISIONS. REGIMENTS NEAR FRONTIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 18. Over 350,000 troops will shortly participate in army manoeuvres in East Bulgaria, says the Ankara correspondent of the ■‘Standard." Axis military authorities admit that the elements of four Nazi divisions are concentrated at Sofia, Burgas and Varna, and that there are also three regiments near the Turkish frontier. Six hundred German engineers are directing 6000 Serbian prisoners in the construction of a railroad linking the Bulgarian, Yugoslavian and German systems. The Ankara correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says that Turkey is likely to apply the Montreux Convention to Bulgaria because she attacked Greece and Yugoslavia and also because she is a possible base for further Axis activity. BRITISH FORCES MOVING UP TO TURKISH FRONTIER. ARTILLERY & OTHER UNITS. LONDON, September 18. A diplomatic observer from Syria told the correspondent of the Associ-j ated Press of Great Britain that the British are moving up a stream of artillery and other military units toward the Turkish frontier.