SWEDEN'S
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 25, 1940
DESTINY
Issue Large In Hitler's War Councils
INTENSE NAZI ACTIVITY ON BORNHOLM
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY. SWEDEN IS A PROMINENT SUBJECT IN THE WAR COUNCILS WHICH ARE HELD DAILY IN HIT- LER'S CHANCELLERY IN BERLIN, REUTER LEARNS, BUT IN THE OFFICIALLY INSPIRED NAZI PRESS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SWE- DISH PRESS AND RADIO THERE IS NO INDICA- WHICH TION YET OF THE LINES ALONG EVENTS WILL DEVELOP.
PREMIER AND D.E.I.
London, To-day. Asked in the Commons yester- day if he would give an assur. ance that in the event of further aggression against neutral Euro- pean states, the overseas posses- alons of auch Staten would not be permitted to be used as base of enemy action, Mr. Chamberlain said "In the hypothetical circum. stances referred to, such action would be taken as the interests of Allied security required."— Router.
In reply to her protest of Tuesday, Sweden was yesterday TRANSFER
politely but vaguely told that German planes had “not violated her neutrality on purpose.”
Neutral circles
Official Protest
observe that the have their work cut out to get any- question will be quietly shelved and where at all-Havas. thus no explanation will be offered, Nazi even for the landing of two planes on the fortified island of Got- land, Stockholm's first line of defence from the sea, hundreds of miles from German or Norwegian territory.
Meanwhile it is rumoured that the
of Island
Bornholm, from Danish which. Nazi planes could reach
the
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Berne, To-day.
OF WAR TO SWEDEN
HITLER'S
CHICANERY EXPOSED
New York, To-day.
The "Minneapolis Journal" says that after the Great War, Norway, Sweden and Denmark came to the rescue by taking thousands of Ger- man children in their homes, feeding them bountifully and lodging them.
Some months before war broke out in 1939, the Hitler Government spon- sored large-scale parties of young men who had spent part of their childhood in 1919 and 1920 in the Scandinavian countries on visits to their former hosts to renew the ties with them and also to brush up on the language.
The diabolical plot was not suspect- ed by the trusting Scandinavians.
Goteborg, To-day. The "Morgenpost" says the Reuter. arrival of the English has strengthened the
The Swedish Minister in Berlin, greatly Arvid Richert, called at the German morale of Norway Foreign Ministry yesterday to dis-
and if the
the NAVAL
cuss the question of repeated viola- Norwegians can resist for a
Swedish naval base of Karlskrona in tions of Swedish territory by German short time, increasing Eng- OFFICERS
little more than 10 minutes flying time.
Is
# hive of military and aerial activity.-Reuter.
If The Test Comes
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Stockholm, To-day.
In spite of the large-scale military
measures in the German. Baltic ports
in the past few days, which have not
planes.
Nazi political quarters minimise the importance of the violations. Havas.
German Ships Ordered From Stromstad
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Stockholm, To-day.
The official Swedish news
agency
lish forces could destroy the isolated Germans in the north.
in the DECORATED
No doubt English planes, like Ger- man, will fly over Sweden, the paper says.
The belief that the English will stop.
frontiers when at Norway's
they
London, To-day.
A number of awards
could, over Sweden, get a stranglehold for gallantry at sea were on the Nazi enemy, is only entertain-announced in the "Lon-
been reassuring to Sweden, the coun-says that coastguards yesterday ordered by those ignorant of why the war try is remaining calm,
If the test comes, Sweden will res pond vigorously and effectively.
ed five German
off ships anchored Stromstad, near the Norwegian bor- der, to leave Swedish territorial wa- ters.
The Swedish Liberal, Conservative The ships were former Norwegian and Socialist parties have agreed on whalers which the Nazis had turned united action and any "Quislings" will into minesweepers.-Havas.
don Gazette" last night.
for Lt-
was brought to Norway.
They include the D.S.O. We have been cut off by the Gar- man occupation of Norway and Den-Comm. Hugh Percival Price and the mark. If the English win in Norway D.S.C. for Sub-Lt. Edward Perry Rea, must be both of H.M.S. Gleaner, for destroy- the barrier falls, but we
ing an enemy submarine. prepared for the transfer of the war to Sweden-Reuter.
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Lt. The O.B.E. Is conferred on Comm. Michael Southcote Town- send and the M.B.E. on Acting Sub- Lt. Vernon John St. Clair-Ford, both of H.M.S. Viscount, for saving many lives at sea on the occasion of the enemy bombing of the B.... steamer Domala In the English Channel,
in
The D.S.O. is awarded to Lt-Comm. Roy Berryman Edwards, of H.M.S. Watchful, for courage and skill securing and stripping live lines regardless of his own safety.- Reuter.
NORWAY'S SIXTH DIVISION MOBILISED
enemy
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It is learned from Tromsoe that the military authorities have managed to mobilise the whole Norwegian 6th Di- vision which is now operat- ing in the north.
The morale of the Norwegian troops Is excellent and they are co-operating fully with the Allies.
The civil administration at Tromsoe and Summark is functioning normally, and the population is confident" re- garding the final issue of the wat Havas,
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