1941-08-15 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1941.

·MUTT AND JEFF

BOY, THAT BURNS ME UP! THE NERVE OF SOME PEOPLE - CALLIN' HIM NO

GOOD!!

?

THEY'RE CRAZY! WHY THERE'S NOBODY IN THIS WHOLE WORLD WHO COMES ANYWHERE

NEAR A GUY LIKE

THAT!!

HE'S HONEST! HE'S KIND! HE'S GENEROUS! HE'S SMART!,

HE'S EVERY INCH A MAN!

THEY DON'T COME ANY BETTER!

I SHOULD KNOW! I'VE KNOWN HIM PERSONALLY FOR:)

A LONG, LONG: TIME!

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WHO?)

ME!

Aspects Of Joint Promise To Turkey

MUTUAL WAR ASSISTANCE PACT PUBLISHED

The text has now been published of the agreement between Britain and Soviet Russia signed by Sir Stafford Cripps and M. Molotov on July

12 providing for mutual war assistance against Hitlerite Ger- many and against the conclusion of a separ- ate peace. Wireless.

British

TWO ASPECTS of the Anglo-Soviet de- claration to Turkey – one of general and the other of particular application - are dealt with by the London "Times" and "Tele- graph."

Recalling that the Montreux Convention, referred to in the declaration, "recognises the full sovereignty of Turkey over the Straits and the consequent right of her Government to take any measures requisite for their pro- tection against aggression in time of war or danger of war" "The Times" continues:

pacts kind,

"The value of this joint diplo- eign disdain for treaties, matic action by the belligerent and agreements of every Governments of Britain and the including of course 'gentlemen's Soviet depended to no small de gree upon its reception by the Turkish Government.

"They have in fact welcomed It warmly and comments of the Turkish press show that Turkish public opinion realises its im- portance."

to of

And it concludes, referring the German-Turkish

pact neutrality: "Should the Nazi Government fail to respect that pact and they have shown sover-

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agreements' the Anglo-Russia declaration gives the Turkish Government an undertaking that they will not be left to face the Fuehrer's malevolence alone.

"The consequences of this BS- surance and reassurance—–which i benefit Moscow almost as much as they benefit Ankara—are likely to be as fully appreciated in Russia

as Turkey.

"They are welcomed in this country and Mr. Eden, Sir Stafford Cripps and M. Maisky will be warmly congratulated upon the signal service to the Allied cause."

Black Sea Bid

Under the

"Hitler's heading Black Sen bid" the "Telegraph" reviews the Nazi drive towards Odessa and Nikolaiev and sug- gests the Nazi General Staff may believe that should these ports falla possibility which must be faced "they can command several ways to victory,"

Both harbours, the "Telegraph" points out, might be used to out- flank the Russian front, "capture the Crimea and reach the oilfields of the Caucasus, or alternatively strike across Turkey at Iraq and Iran."

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The Anglo-Soviet declaration, the "Telegraph" continues, "has created

for difficulties grandiose Nazi projects.

"Attempts to make Turkey subsorve to the Fushrer's me- galomania are now countered. She is not to be bullied into making her country a corridor for Nazi conquest, i "However many legions Hitler's marshals can deploy on the Black Sea shore there are no ships to move them until some run the gauntlet to and through the Dardanelles, and there is no naval protection for them except what Mussolini has to lend.ANDA

Stories are fold of great num bers of barges prepared at Con- stanza and of motor torpedo boats brought down the Danube, Rus- sia has a ficet in the Black Sea far more than capable of obliter- ating any naval force: which Hitler could scrape together there.British Wireless.

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