Russian warships possible using French naval bases according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 29 October 1936

Paris, 27 October. Despite the semi official contradiction after the publishing of the tiding that Soviet Russia requested France to allow her using French naval bases by Russian warships are still stubborn rumours that the Soviet government was talking with insiders to get an idea of the official French attitude. Soviet Russia considered to intervene in the Spanish conflict. The fact that the newspaper Le Temps published these rumours confirmed the earlier tiding. News items that Russian warships all ready passed of were to pass within short time through the Dardanelles was in a semi official tiding from Istanbul contradicted according to which the Turkish authorities didn’t receive a Russian request for allowing this passage.