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MILITARY SURVEY OF THE WAR IN NORWAY

London, To-day.

THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TALK about treachery and the use of the "Fifth Column" in Norway, but not everyone may realise that this is part of the doctrine created by the German General Staff and the Nazi Government, said Captain Cyril Falls, Military Correspondent of "The Times," in a broadcast yesterday.

While "deception" is one of the normal artifices of war, the German method is to employ methods of corruption and treachery in an attempt to win a campaign before it is really started.

in

The Germans had hoped that Norway, as in Denmark, there would

be little or no resistance. They CANDID

also miscalculated the naval factor. The Norwegians are resisting and

the Allied troops are going to their ADMISSION

aid, while the German Navy has been so crippled that It is now a less serious menace in the calculations of the Allies and even of the neutrals. DIFFICULT SITUATION

The situation in Norway is difficult for two main reasons.

most

Firstly, although we can interrupt the passage of German troops to Oslo and have, indeed, already caused thousands of casualties of the serious kind to morale-through death by drowning-it is practically impos sible to stop this traffic altogether. In fact, the Germans can send rein- forcements with less difficulty than

the Allies can.

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LONDON, TO-DAY.

NO ONE IN BRITAIN, AND PRO- BABLY FEW OUTSIDE GERMANY, EVER · DOUBTED.・・ UPON · WHOSE SHOULDERS .. RESTED THE RES- PONSIBILITY FOR THE PRESENT

WAR, BUT IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT A SIMILAR CON-

CLUSION IS ADMITTED BY A GER- MAN OFFICER.

In spite of Ribbentrop's claim on April 27 that the Allies forced war on Germany, a broadcast on April 20 by a German officer gave a different view. He said: "On January 24, the Fuehrer, addressing 7,000 Germans just about Secondly, Nazi

to be commissioned ..as officers, aloser, so that their "planes can stated that Germany has to demand harry the Allied troops more than same sacrifices from her soldiers as in

have already we can theira, We

previous wars. He said that this war done a good deal towards offsetting was bound to come at some time and this by bombing air.. banes and the Fuehrer wanted to condict this have, indeed, infilcted heavier losses: war while he is still alive as it would than we have suffered.

be cowardly to shoulder the next generation with this struggle.”

We have also sent some fighter 'planes to attack the Nazi bombers. But it must be remembered that the Germans are at the moment in pos- session of most of the airfields Norway, so that we can operate only on a small scale.

in

This also confirms Hitler's statement to Sir N. Henderson that he could not wait for the war till he was older.-- British Wireless.

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The damage at Steinkjer could be surprise. The Norwegians

quickly repaired if the main Ger- chance to mobilise men, or resources. man forces advancing up the two The lack of military training and ex-valleys are held up. This is the perience in a country which has not news we shall be watching been at war for well over a century the next few days.

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We did not expect this campaign to be easy. More troops are being land- ed, supported by anti-aircraft guns.. Despite repeated attacks from the

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