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New Contemptibles
GOEBBELS, leader of the Nazi Propaganda Department, and the German press either have not read. "Mein Kampf" or they think German people have not. In commenting on the evacuation by British troops of the Trondheim arca, they ex- press the utmost contempt for The Tommy as a fighting man. hostilities in Norway prove, they suy, that the German soldier is immeasurably superior to the British, And much more on the same lines.
If the Germans turn to their-Leader's book they will form a very different opinion of the qualities of the British soldier.
Referring to the danger of depreciating an enemy in comic papers and other publications, Hitler says: "The result was an under-valuation for which we had to pay a heavy penalty. I can vividly recall to mind the astonished looks of my comrades when they found themselves personally face to face for the first time with the Tommies in Flanders. After a few days of fighting the consciousness slowly dawned on our soldiers that those Scotsmen were not like the ones we had seen described and caricatured in the comic papers and mentioned in the muniques."
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How often have R.A.F. planes flown over Germany since war began? And what territory did they cover? This map gives you the answers.
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cate flights to the in- terior. Enel flight, of course, was actually made by several planes.
The same applies to flights over Northern, North-Wes- tern and Western Germany ~~~but in those cases flights have been so numerous that the artist has had to draw the planes small, giving dates of raids alongside.
THE Norwegian system of com- munications is of great importance for all operations which may be con- ducted after the landing of a British expeditionary. force in thut country.
Generally speaking, it must be said
that these communications, for geo- graphical reasons, are somewhat scanty nad that they will certainly raise military difficulties. Compared with Great Britain, Norway has not
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got many rallways or good motor railway to the Gulf of Bothnia. The roads. The explanation is that main- importance of British troops being nevertheless ly because of the high mountains and landed in Narvik is
psychological the always complicated terrain it has threefold; t been expensive to construct railways value, it enables the British Navy to and motor roads; especially when take sure control over the northern communication between the different, Norwegian coastline, and it guaran- between the cornmunication parts of the country was maintained tees easily and cheaply by sea
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the defenders and the invaders. Then there is the very important question of the weather conditions, Actually some of the most important motor
roads connecting the east and the west parts of the country used not long ago to be closed during the win- ter months because the heavy snows prevented traffic; this may no longer be the case, but during the period of the thaw, which is now approaching and has in certain parts of Norway already begun, the big roads will probably not be able to take much heavy trame and the smaller roads none at all. The Norwegian know- ledge of the country, however, will help the Allied troops to overcome more casily these diflculties them the Germans.
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ALTHOUGH nothing is known, for good reasons, of the places where the moin Allied forces may now operate in Norway, it can, for the purpose of speculation, be assumed that the most convenient ports, npart from the possibility of Stavanger, Bergen, and Trondheim, with their excellent port equipment, being retaken, are An- dalsnes and Namsos. Both are now definitely occupied by the Germans.
routes Western Powers and Sweden.
Even if the landing in Norvik is not decisive, it is a necessary step on the way to effective Allied help to THE principal point is that Norway Norway. But the whole of Norway south of the Trondheim Fjord and between Narvik and Namsos, on the com- north of Narvik consists, so to speak, Nom Fjord, north of Trondheim, of two islands, all communications lacks through communication lines, A further corrective to the by sea. So far as Narvik is concern
between these parts being carried on whether by rall or rond.
In Namsos, north of Trondheim, Intest German gloatings, 30 ed it must be kept in mind that this however, begina the main railway reminiscent of the early days of place is mainly a Swedish export system, From Namsos there the last war when they called
line down to Trondheim, and from One of Trondheim two lines to Oslo. the British goldier "a con-
these lines is connected through temptible rabble," is to be found in the writings of one of the.
branch line with Andalanes, on the Romsdal Fjord. From Oslo the rail- German fire-eating professors,
way goes over the mountains to Ber- Ewald Banse: "The man who
gen, and from the capital, finally, under-rates the enemy over-
there is a railway along the south const to Stavanger, but it is not com- rates himself and thereby turns
plete and certain parts are still under the odds against himself. Tho
construction. Tho mest. Important essence of all preparations for war is getting to know one's
From Andalsnes on the Romsdal enemy, studying his strong and
Fjord, runs the branch line up to the. his weak points in laborious
main Trondheim-Oslo line; a rather detail And again: "The most
good motor rand follows the railway. marked feature of all is tho
Aridalsnes in a small place with not n incredible tenacity with which
thousand people, but the port is good, the quays having a good capacity. the English, once they have adopted an objective, never let it port. If it had not been for the trade 110 connection with the motor-road
in Swedish iron ore Narvik would system and that Stavanger lacks Namsos farther north, is the northern- railway most Norwegian railway.station, with out of sight for a moment."
still be a small and unnoticed fishing communication with the Thead wholesome reflections, vilingo and nothing else. The lands system in the central parts of the the exception of Narvik. however, do not find a place in ❘ing of British troops in Narvik and in Nazi propaganda nowadays. It places north of Narvik had therefore It must be pointed out that the Ber- to Trondheim. The port is compara- may be that the German soldier no chance of directly affecting the gen rallway and the rail to Trondheim tively good, the surrounding country- will have to learn over again the military situation in the Trondheim go through many tunnels and conse-side in both places sultable for opera. lesson his father learned twenty-area. Nárvik's only. Innd com- quently may easily be cut, which may lions and not very wild and moun- five years ago.
munication is with Sweden along the turn out to be advantageous both for talous, The Germans have occupied
motor roads are from Oslo along the south coast to Stavanger, from Oslo to the Hardanger Fjord, from Oslo the Sogne Fjord, and from Oslo to the Romsdal Fjord, These ways are the main lines between Central Norway, north of Oslo, and the west coast. This summary shows that Bergen has
country..
From Namsos the line runs down
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Dombos, which is the junction be- tween the Andalsnes-and-Trondheim ¡ines. With the Germana in control of certain paris near the two men- tioned places they must be exposed to British naval action of course there are many other places in the Fjords where smaller detachments may be landed, but considerable forces will have to be based on ports of some capacity: Trondheln is the main Norwegian west coast port north of Bergen, and if the British Navy can force its way into the Trondheim Fjord-where, by the way, the sur rounding plains provide air bases- the best way into Norway will be opened. From Trondheim rung, furthermore, one of the three rall- ways between Norway and Sweden, the others being from Norvik and from Oslo via Kongsvinger into Cen- tral Sweden.
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SALVAGE Task For Experts
MONTE VIDEO. The task of breaking-up and re- moving the scuttled German "pocket- battleship" Admiral. Graf Spee will tax the ingenuity of the experts here. A start has not yet been made on the work as the necessary permits have still to be obtained from the Urugune yan authorities,
The Franco-Uruguayan firm of Re- gusel and Voulminat, leading on- gineers and ship repairers in Monte Video, have been given the contract. The firm owns a dry dock capable of taking a 7,000-ton tramp steamer.. Divers here have no experience in uninst oxy-ncetylene gus apparatus for cutting metal under water, und it is doubtful whether there is any [plant avaliable locally for such work. It will be a diMcult and tedious process to blow up the underwater: part of the wreck Into pieces weight- ing less than 80 tond. But this is essential, since the maximum lift of the largest local floating crane is 80 tons.
Uruguayan marino law prohibits the employment of craft, equipment or labour from another country in salvage operations In Uruguayan waters..