The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

Ihe Iraa forces have been con- Nentrated about the important Royal Air Force station at Habbaniya, 65 miles west of Baghdad on the &uphrates river, not far from the Syrian frontier.
 The British have demanded that me troops be withdrawn to prevent rIncidents" and have made clear that they are ready to employ their Increasing armed forces in Iraq to urotect the RAF station unless the Ireq government yields.
 Reports from Axis news sources eIaimed that instead of lowing to the British demand the Iraq govern nent has delivered an ultimatum, calling on the British to remove the Imperial forces-largely Indian troops have been landed in tlie last 10 days.
 Importance of the Traq situation a emphasizcd by British belief that a German move into Syria may be Imminent. Iraq controls the back door to Turkey, Syria and the im- portant British bases in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It has import Ant-owned oil deposits and Is Q ley to the middle eastern routes 70 India.
 Turkey Situation
 The prospect that Turkeys posi- ton may soon be clarified arose from Berlin reports that German Ambassador Franz Von Papen has loft the German capital after lengthy consultations with Reich Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib- bentrop, He is believed to be erl- NToute to Ankara.
 There have been indications that eTurkey, despite her alliance with NBritain, is swinging more and more Howard e position of neutrality With Sthe movement of Nazi troops lnto aareek islands along her coast and Unto Greek Macedonia only few ssmiles from the Turkish frontier.
 What proposals Won Papen may iay before President 1smet 1nonu Ire not known. Some British Uuinion inclines to the belief that Nkhe Germans will sidestep Turkey NXfA bkLC QGNCACRihShS S@ S~ - 4cers attack on Suez.
 Tn the Far East there was Q new outburst of Japanese radical agita- tion, apparently designed to bring pressure on the Tokyo government sfor a stronger stand against Bri- tain and the United States and re- Sumption of the drive into the South gpacific.
 Posters appeared on Tokyo street corners declaring:
 N "Arm the entire nation; advance with a strong policy toward the United States"
 In North Africa there was heavy lighting at besieged Tobruk where &he Axis forces have penetrated Some of the Libyan ports outer defenSes. However, the British said chat there was no question of Ayacuating Tobruk. There has been Tho Axis report on this fighting ex- cept for statements that pressure on the British defenders both by land and ,lir was increasing.
 Newswrlters Suffer
 sa Jan Yindrich, United Press stan correspondent who is with the Brit AAsh at Tobruk, cabled dispatch re- porting on Axis preparations for the assault which developed in the dark ness of Wednesday night and Thurs day morning.
 Leigh White, correspondent for the New York Post and the Colui1l- bia Broadcasting System, was wounded twice in the right thigh Whca e German airplane machine Qunrtd @ Greek troop train be- tween .-,atras and Corinth, accord- ing to British chaplain reaching here from Greece. N.I found White in Argos with his right leg in a splint," the chaplain sAid. 'IIis leg was in bad state. We were sorry we couldn't do anything for him. We already had evacuated the British hospital. He was in the best of spirits, smoking, and asked that we request Washington to in" ktruct the American legation in Athens to send him assistance at Argos" ~
 The Associated Press correspond ent Robert St. John, who ned ron Jugoslavia to Greece with White and other American and British war correspondents. arrived here.
 There was no news of Leon Kay of the United Press, who had left Cattaro, Jugoslavia, April 16, in Q small boat with White, St. John Russell Till of the New York Her. a1d Tribune and Atherton Of the London News Chronicle. The others reached here with St. John. HI raid they had long, difficult trir down the Adriatic to Greece. Nearly 4,00O Left
 Australian War Minister P. c @pender said that evacuation of tho Iinperial Expeditionary Force hat been completed with the withdrawa of 43, 900 of the original 60,000 men fge said that 5000 to 4,000 troop we're left on the beaches of Greco because the speed of the German drive to the southern Greek coas made it impossible to rescue them.
 The Germans claimed that thel of them said to be Aflzacs. The Ger mans also estimated that two-thirdl