1940-04-15 — Page 6

HINTS OF

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1940

BRITISH IN NORWAY

LANDINGS IN

Norwegians Told To Render All Possible Aid

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PARIS, TO-DAY. · AMID A WELTER OF RUMOURS OF BRITISH LAND- INGS AT DIFFERENT POINTS ON THE NORWE- GIAN COAST HAS COME AN OFFICIAL STATE- BRITISH MENT INDICATING THAT IF NO TROOPS HAVE ACTUALLY LANDED, THEIR ARRIVAL IS IMMINENT.

The Norwegian Government last evening broad- cast a message throughout the country calling on the people to give British forces every pos- sible assistance.

The official message said that the brutal invasion of Norway would not friends of go disregarded by the Norway.

"Assistance is already on the way "Wherever British troops are mat, you will assist them by every possible means."

Meanwhile, there are rumours that seven Allied divisions are being pre- pared for the Norweglan operations and that British troops have already landed on the coast about 100 miles to the north of Trondheim.-Havas.

NAZI BOMBERS SEEKING OUT

THE KING

London, To-day. The Foreign Office an- NAZI NARVIK REPORT DENIED

nounces the Norwegian Gov- (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

ernment has informed the London, To-day. Well-informed circles categorically British Government that deny information from Stockholm German aircraft evidently

that a contingent of German troops landed at Narvik on April 12.

The have

information was probably from Ger-

man sources.

The Royal Navy is keeping a close watch on the whole stretch of Nor- wegian coast, thereby making any

landing of German troops practically

impossible. Havas.

Germans Abandon Narvik

Stockholm, To-day. According to a despatch from the Norwegian news agency's office at Bodoe, German troops have abandon- ed Narvik and are taking refuge in the difficult country north and east of Narvik.

Whether British forces have land-

Reuter, ed is yet not known.

Germans Compelled To

Evacuate

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London, To-day. A Norwegian source in Stockholm states that German troops have been compelled to evacuate Narvik after a combined attack by the British and French Fleets. Havas.

Trondheim Reinforced

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Stockholm, To-day.

A Norwegian communique says that German reinforcements have been des- patched from Oslo to Trondheim.

German detachments from Halden have occupled the border post of Kornsje where they seized the customs the Norwegian-Swedish

house on border. Havas.

FUGITIVE WOUNDED

A Chinese

detective fired and wounded a man who attempted to escape after being arrested in Soy Street yesterday.

The man, wounded in the right leg, was admitted to the Kowloon Hos- pital.

"A fisherman; Chung Chan-mok, was treated at the Queen Mary Hos- pital yesterday for injuries received when he was knocked down by a car in Mald Street West, Shaukdwan. The car was driven by a navalman, E. H. Child:

orders to attack the King of Norway personally, as they are bombing every successive place he stays in.

The action follows the re- fusal of King Haakon to ne- gotiate in person with the German Minister in Oslo. Reuter.

NAZI REPLY THUMB TO NOSE

As 100 German seamen off cuttled or captured ships passed through a British town recently trawlermen- among

them

men who had been bombed

(Air

Men of the Cheshire Regiment carrying out an exercise Somewhere in France. Machine gunners in position in a ruined building. Mail).

OUTSPOKEN U.S.

COMMENT:

INTEREST IN WAR

New York, To-day.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE German destroyers at Narvik provides the chief war story in all the New York newspapers, while editorial comment on the Scandinavian events is significant of the United States attitude.

gave them the Nazi salute. The "New York Times" says: "The warring nations

One German acknowledged it by

putting his thumb to hĩa ́nose, The men were on their way to an internment camp in the South.

It

are not alone in believing their existence de- pends on the outcome of the war.

was as they were marching past the "Every neutral, no matter how far from Europe or how de-

fish market that, the trawlermen greeted them and exchanged good- humoured banter with them.

One of the Germans said he had fished out of the port in peace time and knew the city and many people who live there.

The officers spoke highly of the treatment they had received from the British. It was evident

from the amount of gear they carried that they had been prepared to scuttle their ships.

They went by special train.

PORTUGUESE YOUTH

ACCUSED

Alleged to have been involved in the burglary at Gilman's showroom on March 20, a Portuguese youth, Noel Silvio, 21, was to-day charged with receiving three Philco.radio-sets and a portable gramophone, knowing the goods to be stolen property.

He was remanded for three days by Mr. E. Himsworth.

of. Det-Sgt. Nolan is in charge the case.

as

termined to stay out of this war, must reassess its posi- tion in the light of the result of the German drive. "Germany has now shown she will itself forced to join in the fray not hesitate to crush any neutral in the only way to protect its own in-

she her path if she feels thereby terests."-Reuter.

FATE OF MILLIONS gains a strategic advantage."

"New York declares:

the The "Herald-Tribune”

quotes › Havas to us Times" as saying: "What is at stake "The war is coming closer

for us is far more important than every day.

Greenland or Iceland.

"The fate of Greenland brings the war to our very doors. "If Holland is invaded, the fate of Curacao and the Dutch West Indies to within a would bring the war

our of stone's throw of the key defence Panama.

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U. 8. INTERESTS THREATENED

"To-day, as in 1917, people "dread the thought of war, but to-day more war threatens even than in 1917, American Interests.

"The only thing that can check the Germans le an overwhelming. vlatory of the Afiles and the de- feat sof· Germany.

"The United States must obviously face the possibility that it may find

"We are watching the most serious threat ever brought against the Bri-- tish and French nations. The fate of millions of men depends upon the result of the clash between the Nazi and Allied forces."

CHINESE - AIR VISIT

TO NANKING

Shanghai, To-day. Twenty-six Chinese planes above the Shanghai-Nanking yesterday morning.

few

Line

Leaflets were dropped around Nan- king according to Chinese rep Our Own Correspondent.