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DUTCH

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1940

UNEASINESS

Nazis Play Up U.S. Press Rumours

TROOPS PATROL STREETS AFTER DARK

Amsterdam, To-day.

DUTCH UNEASINESS WAS intensified over the week-end by the sensational emphasis laid by the Nazi press on American newspaper sugges- tions that British troops might be en route to Holland.

Another reason for nervousness was a German news agency message accusing the Dutch press of lying about the torpedoing of the Dutch steam- er Arendskerk.

and

Troops with fixed bayonets machineguns are patrolling the streets

of The Hague and other Dutch cities AIR BATTLE

after dark.

A notice has appeared in the fron- tier districts warning the popula- tlon to stay home after 8 p.m. and that their telephones would be cut off at night and their roads blocked." The Narvik battle has made a deep impression on the Dutch people, who had begun to feel the Allies might wait too long before acting in Scan- dinavia.

The news was prominently pu- blished in the newspapers.-Reuter.

No Illusions In Netherlands

London, To-day. "Few people can have any illusions about where the real danger to Hol- land lies," state authoritative circles here replying to fresh German allega- tions that the Allies planned to vio- late Holland's neutrality, based on reports by columnists in American evening newspapers suggesting the possibility of a British landing on the Dutch coast.

It is added: "These German stories are pure inventions of the most absurd character which will not be believed anywhere outside the Reich."

Reuter.

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London, To-day.

The British bomber shot down on the Dutch border was one of two. Air Force bombers which engaged in a nerce battle with three German fighters near the Dutch frontier.

BRITISH SOBERNESS

London, To-day.

The Dutch newspaper "Volk," commenting on Mr. Churchill's speech, says: "It is the British Boberness which appeals to us Netherlanders and arouses confi- dence," and addo it agrees with Mr. Churchill's conviction that Hitler has committed a strategi- cal error in Norway.

The "Handelsblad"

says: མང་ looks as if the growing resistance, of Norway might lead to a dan- ger of the Germans being cut off." -Reuter.

ICELAND'S FUTURE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

London, Yesterday. The Allied Governments are closely considering the position of Iceland, which has broken away from Den- mark.

Consultations are: due to start be-- tween London and Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, aiming at assuring the island's protection against possi ble German aggression,

The United States may also take One bomber got away and the Nazi part in the consultations owing to

other fighters concentrated on the

the American Interests involved. which was finally shot down and îm- Canada is ready to help Greenland, mediately burst into flames, which if necessary, but so far German dan- were so fierce it was impossible to res-ger there is remote. Havas. cue the occupants.

Reuter.

RUMANIANS

ON WATCH

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Bucharest, To-day.

to The authorities have decided strengthen the police watch over all Danubian harbours and oilfields.

the As a defence measure

Ru- manian Oil Bureau has requested companies to put aside reserve stocks of fuel equivalent to 15 days' produc- lion. Havas,

OIL TANKER BLOWS UP

! (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") STOCKHOLM, YESTERDAY.

IT IS NOW CONFIRMED THAT THE GERMAN SHIP WHICH BLEW UP WITH A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN THE SKAGERRAK WAS AN OIL TANKER.

A message from Grimstad, in Nor- way, quotes fishermen as saying the explosion was "ghastly" and later the tanker was seen enveloped in flames which 'prevented patrol vessels which rushed to the scene from giving assiŝtance.--Havas.

German

SWEDISH ANXIETY GIVEN NEW IMPETUS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL");

Stockholm, To-day. German troops in Norway are near- ing the Swedish frontier în an attempt to seize Kongsvinger with the ultimate object'of cutting off the Oslo-Charlot- tenberg railway. The capture of Hald- en is confirmed but 'the Norwegians defeated the Germans at Eldsfos.

The Propaganda Minister summon- ed Swedish correspondents and in- formed them that the Allies establish- ment of minefields in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat "is likely to modify Germany's position as regards Swe- den."

assert

Foreign quarters in Berlin that Swedish neutrality depends en- tirely on the decisions of the German High Command since Germany will · be compelled to transport troops and supplies to Norway through Sweden.

Some expect that Germany might ask Sweden to authorise the mere transit of supplies of arms and am- munition.-Havas.

NAZI PATROL FALLS INTO AMBUSH

LONDON, TO-DAY.

GERMAN WHEN A 50-STRONG PATROL ENTERED A VILLAGE IN NO-MAN'S LAND THEY PROVID- ED A REWARD FOR 20 ALGERIAN SHARPSHOOTERS WHO HAD LAIN OUT IN THE FIELDS WAITING FOR MARAUDERS FOR FIVE 'SUCCES- SIVE NIGHTS, CABLES - REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WITH THE FRENCH ARMY.

victim to A German officer fell the first rifle crack. This apparently discouraged his men who were rout- ed.

Seven took refuge in a loft but surrendered when the Algerians en- tered the village at dawn--Reuter.

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