MOVE BY TURKEY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 8

MOVE BY TURKEY

BOMBED BY BRITISH

SOVIET AND ALLIES

ORGANISING AIR FORCE WITH BRITISH ASSISTANCE THE LESSON OF POLAND (Unitea Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) ANKARA, Dec. 15 Turkey is making a spirited effort to organise her air force, largely with British assistance. Poland’s speedy devastation under Germany’s aerial strength has done more to convince the Turks that they need aeroplanes and anti-aircraft defences than years of theorising. British instructors are teaching young officers to fly, and Turkey has recently been experimenting with different types of machines. She has secured British, German, Polish and American machines to the number of 225.

One hundred new British aeroplanes are now being assembled, and French and American machines have also been ordered.

BASES AND SEAPLANES PERSISTENT AIRMEN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CopyrigTH) (Received Dec. 16, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15 It is officially stated that bombing cf Nazi seaplanes and German bases occurred less than 12 hours after the Heligoland battle on Thursday. Security patrol and fighter bombers carried out the attack.

PRAISE FOR PACT POOLED RESOURCES (Official Wireless) (Received Dec. 16, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 15 The British and French financial agreement is welcomed in the columns of the Economist. An article on “Entente Financiers” declares: “It is, we may hope, the first step in a process of economic collaboration that will extend beyond the details of finance or limitations of war economy.” Discussing the consequences of the agreement reached between France and Britain it sums them up in the sentence. “The foreign assets of the countries are to be pooled,” and in this connection it calls attention to the interesting estimate made this by the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, according to which gold, dollar balances, and marketable American securities belonging to the United Kingdom and France approximate to 7,400,000,000 dollars or £1,850,000,000.

A VIOLENT ATTACK HYPROCRISY ALLEGED (Omclal Wireless) (Received Dec. 16, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 15 The Moscow wireless has violently attacked Anglo-French action at Geneva, declaring “they surpassed anything hitherto heard of in cynicism and hypocrisy They shed crocodile tears about alleged violation of Finnish rights, while trying to conceal the fact that Mannerheim’s Finland is the basis for operations of the impefialist aggressors against the Soviet.” '