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MURDER ON HIGH SEAS COULD NOT BE TOLERATED

London, To-day.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE Allied laying of mines in Norwegian territorial waters it is rele- vant to note that it becomes apparent, both from German action on the sea and from the state- ment of those controlling Nazi policy, that Ger- many had no intention from the very outset of the present war of following rules relating to the treatment of neutral shipping to which she her- self subscribed in the protocol of 1936.

In the prize regulations issued on "is to prevent deliveries to belliger- August 28, 1989, in direct contradic-ents, this aim has been reached only tion of the well-recognised principle as far as a sixth of the numbers of that neutral ships must not be sunk vessels sunk is concerned."

Protests by the neutrals affected unless guilty of an unneutral service, provision was made for the destruc-produced no results-Norway lodged tion of neutral vessel if it was "in-eight protests but the sinkings con- expedient" to bring it in.

tinued. Sweden protested four times attacked.

· still As late as January 25 the "Deutsche | but fishermen were Allgemeine Zeitung," in inspired Scandinavian papers voiced the pro- articles, laid down hypothetical cir- tests of the Norwegian and Swedish cumstances in which, in the Nazi peoples. view, neutral vessels would lay them- selves open to hostile action.

In fact the Nazis did not follow the rules thus laid down by themselves because by the and of December, eighty neutral ships had been sunk by U-boats, mostly in circumstances tak- ing them outside even the vary wide interpretation of their own rules.

UNPRECEDENTED BRUTALITY

The Sjoefgarts Tidende on Febru- ary 7 said: "We must defend ourselves which is worse warfare against than the ill-famed Barbary States terror in the Mediterranean. If Bri- tigh convoys offer increased security we must choose them. If something can be achieved by arming our ships we must do it."

REPLY TO CRIMES

On the same day the Aftenposten said:

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But, following this pronouncement, Nazi words were rapidly caught up Nazi deeds, for on February 17 the

"The Norwegian people have hither- Gerinan Admiralty instructed U-boat to remained silent to German brutal- commanders to sink neutral vessels ity because they wanted to see if what which, "to judge from the course happened was the result of war acci- would have to put into a British port", dents and not wilful.atrocities. They without further inquiry. These in-now no longer doubt that these actions structions seem to have culminated in

are deliberate and their people the unprecedented brutality accom-reacting against the brutality and are panying the sinking of the Norwegian demanding that protests be made. The ship Navarra and the machinegun-Norwegian Government must unmask ning of the passenger ship Mira.

the culprit. Neutrality does not mean Taken on the most conservative es- timate and not including vessels which silence when one's own countrymen are unreported, except for failure to are outrageously massacred.”- return to port, the German unres- tricted warfare at sea has accounted for 164 neutral ships and 1318 neutral lives.

These ships were not guilty of fun-tween neutral neutral service." Only three of the destruction. ships sunk were in convoy.

FRUITLESS PROTESTS

It is clear therefore that many Nor- wegians and Swedes share the British feeling on this sinking of neutral ves- sels, many of which were: trading be- ports at the time of

This murder on the high seas, while the Nazis themselves take full advan- tage of the letter of international law, They If the object is to prevent goods could no longer be tolerated. reaching Britain, the words of thewill not be slow to grasp that it is in re- Swedish Foreign Minister on Febru-ply to the repeated crimes against hu- ary 21 show the failure of this ac-manity, well in keeping with Nazi po- tion.

licy on land, sea and air, that yester- was taken.-Bri-

"It the chief aim of the intensi-day's Allied action fied war at sea," M. Gunther said, tish Wireless,

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