London, Sept, 23.
NDICATIONS that Bulgaria may soon be drawn into the war against Russia prompted British military experts to speculate today whether the country would be used as a base for Nazi operations or take active steps to cover General Karl von Rundstedt's right flank in a thrust toward the Caucasus.
The Germans appeared already to have launched an offensive against Crimea and Russian Black Sea naval bases.
There were some reports that hundreds of German transport planes had picked uj acute regiments and assembled them in the western end of the Black Sea.
The British military experts pointed out that from Varna, where heavy Luftwaffe concentrations were Te-ported last week, the distance via air across the sea to Crimea was only 300 miles.
With the Russian situation more grave in the southern sector, there were persistent rts from neutral sources that the British Army would fight alongside the Russians in the defence of the Soviet One British spokesman Germans. ever ie Caucasus, reach th "It the they once again will come up against the British.
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