New York, Feb. 24.
The Turkish Supreme Defence Council has declared a state of emergency throughout the country, according to the correspondent of the "New York Times" in Belgrade.
The Turkish Council, which met at Ankara for nearly a week, took action under the Emergency Law, the correspondent added.
All telephone communication between Yugoslavia and Turkey was cut yesterday, and so it was impossible {o obtain details.
It is believed in authoritative quarters that reports of an incident which is said to have occurred on the frontier are by no means exaggerated, the correspondent continued.
The incident occurred when a battalion of Soviet troops crossed the frontier and were disarmed by Turkish troops, who then invited the Soviet authorities to send a detachment to recover the arms, as the invaders were interned as deserters, According to these reports, the Soviet authorities sent a'cavalry detachment to pick up the equipment, but after crossing the frontier, this detachment refused to return to Russia, Considerable interest has been aroused, the correspondent stated, in an unusually large number of so-called German merchants who are travelling to Turkey. when genuine Germans are steadily departing from there in large numbers, Germans are also said tobe en route for Iron and Arabia, through the Balkans. It is believed that they are all German officers, whose purpose is surmised as coinciding with German economic plans in the Near East, the correspondent concluded.—Reuter.
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