Istanbul, Dec, 8, The purchase of armaments and war materials of the most modern types from the Allies is announced today by Orbay, head of Athe Military mission, who has returned from London and Paris, He said they brought back now in reach a most satisfactory agreement shortly, fits Herr Hitler's latest envoy to Turkey, Baron von Lermer, has been working hard, since he arrived five days ago, to regain for the Reich the confidence of the Turks, as the mission of Herr Franz von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey, is considered as having failed completely, according to dispatches from "Ankara, Baron von Lersner, who describes himself as "representative to Turkey of the German Near East Club," claims his task consists of "bettering and furthering cultural, social and economic relations between Germany and Turkey," It is, however, not thought that this new German bid to win over the Turks will have the desired effect, as the Turks are said to be unlikely to forget in a hurry the bitter experiences of the past, Turkish newspapers yesterday and today carried articles violently attacking German diplomats in Turkey, whom they hold to be directly responsible for the wide distribution, two days ago, of the Turkish translation of the bitter attack by "Pravda" (official Soviet newspaper) on the Turkish press.—
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