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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 1, 1940

Plain Speaking By Swedish Shipping Paper ALLIES, GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA

LOOKING FOR AN IRON CROSS?

Berlin-To-day.

Werner Hartmann, Cai. U-boat commander, has returned from a long-distance cruise in which he ctalme to have sinh 45,000 tông of shipping.

He further claims that in two ralds ha sank 80,000 tons of shipping-Reuter.

DIFFERENT METHODS

Stockholm, To-day.

A contrast between Ger- man and British methods of sea warfare is given by the Swedish paper "Handels- Tidning," of Gothenburg.

LONDON, TO-DAY:

THE "GOTHENBURG TRADE AND.......... SHIPPING GAZETTE" SAYS: “MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON THE ALLIES' WISH THAT THE NORTH BE INVOLVED IN THE WAR. GERMAN PROPA- GANDA HELPS THIS.

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"Sweden and Norway would be dissatisfied if the Allies declared they would never enter the northern war centre, giving the Russians and Germans the free- dom of the Baltic.

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"German propaganda blames Lon- don and Paris for the Polish mas- sacres. If Germany had been let alone, the Poles would have been en- slaved without massacres.

"London is blamed when a U-boat sinks a neutral ship and for the Russian massacres of civilians In Finland, because Britain dissuaded the Finna from capitulating to Moscow. Thus the aggressor is al- ways right.

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"The Allies' position towards North will be decided by the North itself. Probably later the Allies will be blamed for their insufficient help to Finland like the Czechs and Poles.

NORTHERN BRAKE

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"The fact is that the Northern countries have braked the' Allies.

"Swedish caution is the Allies' best excuse for not helping Finland.

The paper says that it is clearly recognised by neutrals that the Bri- The Swedes dissuaded Finland from tish methods of sea warfare, from going to Geneva, and did not believe humanitarian standpoints, are quite the Allies' promises of help.

the different from those of the Germans. The Finns knew better than Submarine warfare as practised by Swedes, and Allied help is now signi- Germany is a war of destruction,, ficant, thanks to Geneva."--Reuter.- without regard for life.

The paper points out that the The paper asks: "How can we e- Germano-Swedish trade agreement pect to observe this when Germany provides for normal trade relations does not consider herself bound by

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CAN YOU HEAR" ME MOTHER? -The":firstƐbatoh of B.E.F_{arrly- ed In London on Feb. 4,:leave: having been resumed after the recent can- "collation. 'An amusing ploture at the station when there was a raid on the 'phone boxes. The soldier, waiting his turn evidently enjoyed the joke," (Copyright, Fox).

ITALIAN COAL MINE DISASTER

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Rome, To-day.

Sixty miners were killed and over 100 injured following a gas explosion:920 feet below the sur- face of the earth. In the Arsa coalfields' near Pola' yesterday.

Darkness and gas are consi. derably hindering the work of rescuers, and it is feared the death toll will be higher-Havas.

ALTMARK INCIDENT LOSING ITS "ACUTENESS”

LONDON, TO-DAY. REUTER'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT LEARNS THAT IN WELL - INFORMED QUARTERS IN LONDON THE DIPLOMATIC ISSUES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND NORWAY OVER THE CASE OF THE ALTMARK ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE LOST THEIR ACUTENESS.

Britain is considering its reply to the last Norwẹ- gian Note, but there is only one point at issue, namely, interpretation of the clause in the Hague Convention providing for the "inno- cent passage" of belligerent warships through territorial waters:

Norway regards the Altmark as a warship which was free to travel through territorial waters, while the British maintain that the fact that she was transporting prisoners made her passage through territorial waters an act of war, and therefore inadmissible, and that either the Altmark should have been refused admission to ter- ritorial waters or the prisoners should have been released.

There is no reason to doubt the good faith of the Norwegian Gov. ernment when it declared It was not aware of the presence of the prisoners.

The Norwegian suggestion of arbi- tration raises difficulties which seem not easy to surmount. Reuter.

END OF MINE LAYING TO BE SOUGHT

GERMANY ADMITS

TERRORISM

Berlin, To-day. For the first time, Ger- many

has officially ad- mitted her campaign of terror against neutral shipping.

In a broadcast from Berlin, the annouricer complained that the British figures for sea losses failed to include neutral losses!

He went on:-

"This attempt to evade the "actual Losses disregards the sole aim of Ger- man haval warfare, namely, to put out of action all merchant shipping being used in the service of the enemy and to cut off shipping communica- tion with England.

"This has been done and is being done with every ship carrying contra-

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Oslo, To-day, Norway, Denmark and Sweden have decided to ask the belligerents to stop lay-band to England, regardless ing mines. The requests will tionality." be made separately by each mention that the Nazi sea-warfare country, and the Norwegian extended to peaceful neutral ships Foreign Office is now prepar-plying between neutral ports and trad- ing the Norwegian applica-ing among themselves.--Reuter.

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Announcing this yesterday, Dr. Koht, the Norwegian Foreign Minis- ter, pointed out that Norway so far has lost 50 ships, totalling 110,000 tons, while 350 Norwegian seamen have lost their lives. Of the 50 ships,

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TRAINING YEMENITES (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Cairo, To-day.

An Iraqt military mission is going

9 were torpedoed, 33 were mined and to the Yemen shortly to participate in the cause for the other 8 was not the re-organisation of the Yemenite known.

Most of the 33 ships were lost in

waters outside those where mine-

fields had been announced.

army-Haves.

Dr. Koht said that although Norway ping with Britain. Germany was not did not like the British contraband justified in sinking Norwegian chips control policy, she could not accede which touched at British contraband to Germany's advice to cut-off ship- control ports. ---- Reuter;