ROOSEVELT WARNING European Peace Must Be Lasting
WASHINGTON,
15
Apr. (Reuter). "The co-operative pence of the Western hemisphere was not created by wishing and it will require more than words to maintain it," declared Presi- dent Roosevelt when addressing the Pan-American Union here to-dny,
"We have only asked the world to so with us in the path of peace," he continued. "But we shall be able to keep that way only if we are pre- pared to meet forco with force, if the challenge is ever given.
Earlier in his speech, President Itoosevelt said that what had happen- ed in the Old World directly and powerfully affected the peace and of the New World. It was well-being for this reason that they had adopted enabling them to meet this procedure any eventuality.
"At Lima," he said, "we agreed to stand together to defend and main tain the absolute integrity of every American nation from any attack, direct or indirect, from beyond the
scan.
"At Panama we worked out ways and means.for keeping the war away from this hemisphere. I pray God we shall not have to do more than that: But should it be necessary,
am convinced that wholly successful.
we should be
"The inner strength of a group of
free people is irresistible when they are prepared to act.
The Value Of Love afirm that life must be based on
"1 positive values. The value of love will always be stronger than the since any nation or value of hate group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred
red within taelf. The value
belief in humanity is of always stronger than the value of belief in force because force at last turns inward and if that occurs each man or group of men is daally com- pelled to measure his strength against his own brother,"
of
Tuesday,
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DURING THE recent Japascio landing in the Chungshan district near Macao, smoko-screens were employed to hide the movements of the invaders.-Damci.
BRITISH
ENTRY
INTO NARVIK
(Official Confirmation By B.B.C.) LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter). The news of the British
capture of Narvik and the surrounding country was broadcast to the Norwegian people by the B.B.C. in message in the Norwegian news bulletin this evening.
STOCKHOLM, Apr. 15 (UP).
-The "Dagens Nyhter" anys
a
ITALIAN "EXERCISES"
Manoeuvres As Warning To Allies?
ROME, Apr. 15 (Reuter).— Reporta are current here that the first and second Italian naval squadrons started their Spring exercisen Lo-day,
to-
Official quarters sinted night that no information was available about the movements of the ships,
Actually both squadrons have licen on parilal manoeuvres since the middle of March.
It is apparent that the extent of the present manoeuvres la a cruise to Duruzzo by the first squndren and a cruise from Spezia to Gacln'and round Sielly by the second squadron.
In diplomatic circles it is felt that the movements should be regarded as a mensure to assist Germany by warning the Alliesi that the Mediterranean cannot be depleted of units to reinforce those in the North Sen.
Singing New Tune
Difficulties In Norway Admitted By Nazis BRUSSELS, Apr. 16 (Reu-
April 16, 1940. SWEDEN IMPRESSED
Swiftness Of Allied Operation
STOCKHOLM, Apr, 15 (Reu- ter)-Nows of the landing of British troops in Norway has caused a sensation in Sweden. The speed of the operation, con- sidering the natural dimculties of the coastline, has made a deep impression.
Everyone is asking how the British have been able to establish bases or the coast and where.
Narvik Is thought to be too fur north. It is believed that the troops must
have landed much farther south in order to provide urgently re- quired assistance,
Gravest concern is felt here with regard to the situation in Norway and hopes are expressed that the British have been
time able to land in effectively to hold up the invasion,
Precautions
By Neutrals Luxembourg Forbids Crowds To Gather LUXEMBOURG, April 15 (Reuter)--A Police regulation is issued forbidding groups of over three people in the streets after nightfall,
the Norwegians have confirmed LETTERS ter). The German Press is which foreigners principally partici
that the British fleet destroyed German warships which all remained in Narvik Harbour after hard fighting.
the
'Erbert 'Iggs Again
To The Editor,
24
already beginning to talk of the difficulty of operations in Nor- way.
The "Montag" says: "We must reckon on further conthiuation British attacks against Narvik," and
of
adds: The German High Command palnew that war in Northern Europe would not be child's play. Such an jction spanot be assured without losses and without massive use of all German arm
The "Hongkor Telegraph." The British forces included
deer mister editer, that wits German good bit you ad in the telegraf the battleship Warspite and some cruisers
the last which chased
it put me in mind of wat my destroyers into the narrow Rombaconi uvver day about ships mottos Fjord, where they were sunk by gun-bert millin told me abart une "R" class submarines in the larst war fro.
Norwegian troops are ready to occupy Narvik any hour as mobiliza- (1914-1918 meen you ave to be
Jubilation Disappoare tion has been completed in north careful wot, war you talks abart now
dont yer)
AMSTERDAM, Apr. io (Reuter). bert told me one of the "R" boats Norway. A new German attempt to land troops is impossible,
Norwegian troops are concentrat adamotto "R's First" but the slopper-The note of jubilation over the ed north and west of Narvik, ready made co take it darn becas they ny events in Norway has completely dis- attack against the outside a place wot was very and appeared from the German press and
efforts are being made to
prepare the Anat Д
to get into surrounded German forces.
then there was anuvver boat wet public for the loss of Narvik.
While official circles freely admit the focal radio states Meanwhile,
nd the motto "IF" and that the German attack on Kongs-arsked one of the lads if e knew wot that the German Navy has suffered heavy losses, they deny that they are it ment vinger continues but the Norweglans
It the Ind consolidating their position miles
yussir
meens so big as the British claim. "chicfy's tots the best IF you kin git to the westward.
It"
for
be
his At the Commencement speech, President Roosevelt said that peace between the American nations to the in- remained secure owing struments they had created, embody ing in a great measure the principles on which enduring peace must based throughout the world.
in the Western Peace reigned hemisphere, he said, because nation had agreed to respect
of the Integrity and Independence others, because they have had agreed us neighbours should, to mind their own business and renounced right to interfere with each others had domestic affairs, because they agreed to settle any dispute by friendly negotiation rather than by
⚫ forec.
cach the
are
Fierce Aghung s continuing at Hegre, cast of Trondheim. Norwe-
the
SCZ
bloke
Usual Cover-Up Tactics BERLIN, Apr 15 (Reuter).The torkin abart tots erd the uvver Germans are resorting to their usual their In order to cover up gian troops have withdrawn from day abart a honkong lady wot went tacties Skarnes and the Germans have capabord 11.M.S.(s-s-s-sh) and when losses. lured a new bridge over the river she came ashore she went in the The evening papers on Sunday
honkong hotel to wash er unds
contained allegations about defence- Flommen.
Naxis Lose Iron
alf baggs was there shooping abart less German sallars at Narvik being LONDON, Apr. 15 (Router)By ter get sum dope for the noospapers shot at in the water. The accounts Pence reigned also because they the British occupation of Narvik, the and erd er say oh deer dew know i did not say how the sailors came to had recognised the principle that only Germans are deprived of about one ave been abord the ship an ad six-be in the water.
supplies, teen of them deer little tots wet the The Germans have not published through mutually benelelal inter-quarter pt their total ore
anything about the German losses national and economic relations could but their loss is even greater than sallors ave an i feels quite dizzy
this, stated on iron and steel expert. theres some nice ladies honkong at Narvik and merely mention that each have adequate access to mu-
This expert told "Reuter" that since aint there misler editer i wish alf strong British forces are blockading terials and opportunities which were
a couple the port. me could get old of the war began, the total effective! on necessary to the rising level of the economic well-being of their peoples. iron-making resources of Germany uvverwise i got a feelin i will uve to They go in fer one of them mixed mar- Democracies
have been cut by a full hall.
from ridges the morning post as been must have the rich iron ore Scandinavia to mix with their own advertising
yores trewly
ERDERT "IGGS low-grade-mineral to penalt_opera- tion of the basle Bessemer or Thomas
ps: old alf took a party up the process, which is the foundation of their steel industry in normal times. blinkin peck arst night-e couldnt
The expert said that the Germans ave been on the level could c?. have only one way of countering the! Narvik blow and that is by ruthless collection of scrap even to the point of disorganising general industry by lifting secondary railway lines and
down structures.
"We of this hemisphere do not need to-seek-a-new international order, he said. "We have already found it. This was not done by hysterical out- cries or violent movements of troops. We did not stamp out nallons, cap- ture governments or uproot innocent people from their homes. We did not invent the absurd doctrines of race claim dictatorship supremacy or through universal revolution."
Pross Support NEW YORK, Apr. is "New York Times" editorial supports President Roosevelt's blunt condem- nation of the German action
"American neutrality does not Im- ply cowardly silence in the face of brutal invasion of small countries, The President has expressed the feelings of an overwhelming majority of our people," says the paper.
"Times" Another "New York editorial on the Scandinavian mer Afton Bladet."
(Reuter).Apulling
STOCKHOLM Resist
Apr. 15 (Reuter).-
German
No Cause For Anxiety
The Norwegian Army is fighting Britain's Food Position stubbornly to hold up the drive towards the Swedish frontier, north-west of Oslo.
be six miles from Kongsvinger.
of
of
west
Again Analysed
He said that Britala has sufficient
of supplies of butter and bacon in cold
LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter). The Germans are now believed to Further indication of the likely Many hundreds of Norwegians have effects of the invasion of Den been killed in this sector, states the mark on the British food situa the tlon was given by a Ministry of Kongsvinger correspondent chant marine says: "Hier has A large concentration of German Food official today. generously handed back to the Allles troops is also reported in the region
all of their merchant more than
Skarnes, 12 miles shipping tonnage sunk by German Kongsvinger and one
immediate future. Moreover, pro- submarines and mines since the start points on the Norwegian front.
duction overseas as well. started, of the war."
Landing At Lofoten Is. U.S. And War
PARIS, Apr. 15 (Reuter)The especially in Canada, and Imports WASHINGTON, Apr, 15 (Reuter). newspaper "Le Temps" states that from Eire and other parts of the Em- "I hope and think that we are the Lofoten Islands, opposite Narvik, pire have increased.
is one of the points at which the gang to keep out of the war," Ad-
Force has Expeditionary miral Stark, Chief of Naval Opera British landed, tions, told the Senate Naval Com- millee to-day.
of
These tactics have been used be- fore, as, for instance, in the case of the Grut Spee. A ridiculous story. proved incorrect by a neutral com- mittee, stated that the British had used poison gas Also in the caso.of. the Allmark, German seamen were said to have been murdered by the British
Little More Intelligont A more intelligent attempt to pre- pare Germans for bad news is made Zeltung," "Frankfurter the by
the which warns its readers that British Navy is strong and that when an attack comes, it will be conducted with firmest determination.
The paper says, however, that the air force is really the important factor, and that the German fleet has behind it the strongest air force in paper does not the world. The mention that half the German fleet
has been sunk, nor that the R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm have already had remarkable successes in Norway.
the key storage to remove any anxiety for the Sweden's "State Of
LONDON STOCK MARKET FIRM
Preparedness"
men-
COVE
STOCKHOLM, Apr. 15 (Router) What is described as "a state of Food Minister Confidant
preparedness" against aerial attack has been proclaimed in certain parts The position in the more distant future necessarily will be affected by of southern and western Sweden. the be possible to
and it cannot be It will come into foren to-morrow,
Air Raid Precautions expected
hat it Testifying on the proposed $65,000,-
replace the 100 per cent, supplies: STOCKHOLM, Apr. 15 (Reuter}.—
oft from | which 000 Naval Expansion Bill, Admiral
cut
the Swedish air raid precaution were
Neverthe- Stark said that in the past the United
Scandinavian countries.
sures are being extended to States had entered every war un-
less the Ministry of Food is confident most of the country. prepared but the lack of preparation
LONDON, Apr. 13 (Reuter)The that there will be ample supplies of had never deterred the American people from deciding on war when Stock Exchange to-day was quietly these commodities arriving from over- they felt the necessly for it had firm with the prices in most sections sens, which, with the home pro- the duction, will be sufficient to keep the pubile and the services in full liealth arrived nor were they likely to be so tending to improve despite deterred in future.
paucity of business.
new and vigour. on the The foul payment "It certainly ezeras essential to-day very much more than in 1922 to sup- Three Per Cent. War. loan was made port at least a 5-5-3 retlo," he added.to-day.
Over £100,000,000 changed hands but without any disturbance to the money market. Adequate prelimin-
PRINCE BISMARCKary arrangements were previously
AS DIPLOMAT
+.
DERLIN, Apr. 15 (Reuter).-1 is announced that Prince Bismarck, at present head of the political deport iment of the Foreign Office, has bern appointed First Counsellor to the German Embassy in Rome, and Second Counsellor at the Embassy,
rank of Minister.
Iferr von Plessen, has been given the
made in order to facilitate the opera- flon.
Wall Street was steady.
Admiral Scheer's Probable Fate
connection with the news that the
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SHARP LOCAL FIGHTING
PARIS, Apr. 15. (Reuter).--To- were sharp local engagements, one to the cast of the Moselle and the other at the frontier of Palatinate, between enemy detachments and two of our reconnaissance parties.
day's communique Bays that there
BRITISH LOSSES. IN NORTH SEA
LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter)-In Admirni Scheer was hit by one of
(Reuter)- LONDON, Apr. 15 The official German news agency possibly two British torpedoes, naval comments: "The strengthening of observers here are of the opinion that British naval losses in the North Sea diplomatic representation in if she has not actually gone to the operations are only four destroyers, it bottom she will certainly be out of was offirmed in authoritative qutar- tera in London when questioned use for some months.
our
Rome is a new sign of the active co-operation of the two Axis powers and demonstrates the particular im- 'portance which Fascist Italy has in the foreign relations of the iteich."
The Graf Spee battle in the River about the German claim that Briush Plato alowed that the pocket-battle- losses were at least four battleships, ship has to sacrifice heavy armour, eight cruisers and 11 destroyers.
On Sunday Swedish anti-aircraft batteries, after firing warning shots, brought down a German plane which flew over the west coast.
Another Nazi plane landed owing to petrol shortage. Its crew nre now Interned,
Oil Requisitioned STOCKHOLM, Apr. 15 (Reuter).-- A Government decrce requisitions all mineral and cfl in Sweden. +
FOREIGN PLANES OVER HOLLAND
THE HAGUE, Apr. 15 (Reuter)- It is announced Linh anti-aircraft guns opened are and air patrols went up against French and German pero- planes which were sighted over Dutch territorial waters yesterday.
Protests have been made to London, Paris and Berlin.
LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter)...---It! was learned here to-night that it is not yet certain whether Mr. Cham- berlain wil make a statement to the House of Commons to-morrow.
Any meetings in private places, In pate, must be notifed to the Police beforehand.
The civil guards recently establish- ed at Luxembourg and Esch now help to guard public buildings and streels during the night.
Swedish Precautions STOCKHOLM, Apr. 15 (UP),
Radio announces Stockholm Government order "air protection" regulations Including blackout mea- sures which will be enforced in cer- lain districts of Sweden beginning at noon on Tuesday,
The districts involved are Gover, the most southern district of Sweden, Werland Province in the west and the island of Gotland,
ANGLO-BALKAN PARLEYS END
LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter).The the British conversations between Office omelala ended this evening. Ministers of the Balkans and Foreign The Ministers are expected to re- turn to their
posts within a few days. The conversations have given salls- fa in various departments com- und the way is now open for a British drive to strengthen the exist- ing links between the peoples of the Balkans and the Western democra- cles,
Nazis' Navigation
Warning
LONDON, Apr. 15 (Reuter).--The offelal German wireless this evening repeatedly broadcast an "important "It must be reckoned that all lights navigation-warning-stating that and beacons on the southern coast of Sweden will be extinguished."
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