Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-06
TURKEY JOINS TALKS

western Europe and possibly OF the
Balkans.
TURKEY JOINS TALKS
The German radio said high Tur-
kish officials had joined Mr.. Roose-
yeit and Churchill in Cairo, and
uncon.ilmtd Swedish reports said
the alarmed Nazis had begun mass
ing TROOPS along the Bulgarian
Turkish border in fear of an immi-
men. invasion of the Balkans.
Stockholm dispatches said power
full German units were rushed to
the Turkish border over the week
end, apparently mirroring the belief
in Berlin that decisions reached at
the Roosevelt -Churchill-Stalin con-
ference might draw Turkey into the
war and open a new land front in
southeastern Europe.
The purported Nazi troop move
ment came as the German radio
reported that high Turkish officials
had gone TO Cairo to confer with
President Roosevelt and Churchill
presumably on Turkeys role in
the campaigns mapped out at The
Unrtcd Nations meeting in Tehran,
While Berlin and the Allied Ma
tions awaited a formal Roosevelt
Churchill-Stalin declaration on that
conference, American and British
troops iii Italy hurled German rear
guards from their mountain strong
holds ana pounded steadily north
ward toward the flat plains guard
ing tic approaches to Rome.
SMASH NORTHWARD
Along the Adriatic coast, Gen. Sir
Bernard l.. Montgomery's 9th army
smashed northward in the face of
increasingly stiff German resistance
and thrust it's forward armored
elements up to the Moro river, only
two miles from Oronto.
Allied planes bombed and ma
chine-gunned the retreating enemy,
despite the adverse weather, and
struck across the Adriatic at the
German-held Jugoslav port of Split.
Fierce action blazed all along
the Russian front, where Red army
tanks and infantry slashed repeat
edly at the NaZi lines in the Dnieper
bend and thrust further westward
OIL the snow-bound battlefront in
White Russia.
Moscow reported that Russian
forces had encircled Cherkasi, major
German stronghold on the west
bank OF the pnieper river between
K.ev and Dnepropetrovsk, and that
savage street fighting was in prog
ress inside the town.
German forces within and with
out Cherkasi counterattacked re-
peatedly and vainly to break the
Soviet ring, littering the approaches
to the town with the bodies of Nazi
dead and the wreckage of their
mechanized equipment,
EXTEND ADVANCE
Below Kremenchug, the Russians
extended their advance toward
Znamenka, key to the main escape
route for hundreds of thousands oi
Germans remaining in the Dniepel
bend.
LONDON, Dec. 6. (UP)-German
troops are massing in Bulgaria near
the Turkish frontier, a Stockholm
dispatch said today as speculation
mounted that the Roosevelt-Chur-
chill-Stalin conference may bring
a Balkan invasion and draw Tur-
ke! into the war.
The German movement toward
the Turkish border began during
the weekend and continued at a
rapid rate, Hungarian circles in
Stockholm said. A large troop con-
centration was reported at Khas-
kovo in southeastern Bulgaria.
The purported shifting of German
troops coincided with German
radio report that President Ismet
Inonu, Foreign Minister Numan
Menemencioglu and Marshal Chak-
max Of Turkey had gone to Cairo
to meet President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill, presuma-
bly, to discuss their country's posi-
ton in the ligh: of the Tehran con-
ference.