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Nazi Strategy

WHEN a strategicni blunder has been made retribution does not always follow. Immediately. Initial success may be achieved when the false move is made behind a screen of treachery and surprise. But in the long run the penalty has to be paid.

There seems no reason for doubt that Germany has made a blunder of

the first order.

5/4/40

A new postage riamp is being issued for Hitler's 51st birthday. It is a reproduction of one of a special series of pictures taken by Henrich Hoffmann, Hitler's photographer, with the object of showing that the Fuehrer is a 'kind man who lovezi children." The stamp shows Hitlert bonding down over a Little girl. Our Own Correspondent.

The

والا

THE FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN

Best

are made Fairyland

Wis the name of the finest

THO, or what, is Bofors? It

gun-making concern in the world.

Greater than Krupp, Schnei- der Vickers, Skoda.

You may have seen the name mentioned in the newspapers lately because of Russia's ag- gression against Finland.

now

The world's eyes are turning to Sweden, and here JOACHIM JOSETEN, expert on Scandinavian affairs, tells you of the great arma- ment factory of Bofors, which, is in the heart of a peaceful

and peace-loving land.

Guns in

with the Bofors management that it takes at least 20 years of training to make a really good constructor.

Terror

of the

SEAS

FOR the last sixty years scien- tists have been experiment-

The idea

of the Bofors works, but the Swedish ing with the destruction of ships Government swiftly passed an net and the taking of life by means specially designeti to prevent tils, of mines. after a stirring speech by Richard Sandler, the Swedish Foreign Minis-teenth century, when attempts were originated in the six-

made to use flooting charges of ex- He denounced the German grip on plosive against ships and bridges. Sweden's war industry as wholly in-

The modern mine is one of the compatible with the country's in-deadliest weapons of warfare.

ter.

terests.

No sooner had the German, in- It is, laid in position, by a mine teresta in Bofors been liquidated layer, either a surface boat or a sub-

marine, which can get rid of 200. thon Great Britain began to man-mines in one trip. fest a keen interest in Swedish- made guns.

The mines run along rails inside the bottom of the mine-laying vessel inte So then the Nazi press started mine-trops, from which they slide on hammering away, in virulent tones, steeply curved rails into the water- at the allegedly "un-neutral" attitude and sink. of Sweden If she dared to lend her help to Britain's rearmament.

Sweden, however, did fulfil some huge British orders.

Sweden, and the countries through- out the world who are her enger customers, wondered, when Hier Invaded Norway, if he were not at the same time becoming a menace

Big Developments to Sweden's Bofors, and to her rich iron ore deposits.

Although the audacity of her coup and the skill with which It was organised are impressive, retribution has begun to follow, not merely because liberties were taken with strategical principles, but because it seems pretty certain that Hitler had

Bofors is not the name of an en- made at least two false assumptions terprising-Individual-but-of-a-small- It seems impossible that he contem-community hidden in the heart of plated the possibility of Norway offer. Central Sweden.

There may be bigger arms factor- ing resistance, or that he considered les than Bufors, but there is none the chance of the Allied navies quite like it for quality. operating successfully in the Skoger- rak and Kattegat against the line of communication of his main invading force. Much less did he imagine that they would penetrale to the Baltic.

The Germans, priding themselves on their army and air force, seem to have refused to acknowledge the potency of the, naval weapon or its offensive potentialitics, though they may realise its effectiveness an beleaguering force.

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Mars' Workshop

Thus Bofors commands to-day an skilled unequalled stock of highly workers, whose craftsmanship has been passed on from father to son for generations.

There are various kinds of mine.. The British variety, when it is re- leased, is pulled downwards by a weight to which it is attached by a mooring line. In the last war Ger- Untrue, however, is a report, clr-man mines were often so designed. culated abroad that Great Britain that after resting on the sea-bed for had actually bought Bofors and sub-a short interval to ensure the mine-- Bofors boasts manufacturing sidiaries.

Such

a sale would be layer's safely, they detached them- tradition of nearly 300 years: a mo- wholly inadmissible both under the selves from the weight (called the and rose imattached to-e dest ironworks, in 1840 endowed with existing Swedish law and the statutes sinker)

mathematically determined depth. royal privileges, was the cradle of of the Bofors Company.

Nor is it conceivable that Sweden There is also an oscillating mine. the present world-spanning trust.

would have been willing to alien- which drifts, and by mechanical For two and a-half centuries the ate the most valuable asset of her means maintains itself at a pre-or- Bofors works remained in private national defence,

ranged depth. Being heavier than A caprice of Nature placed the ownership.

The fact is that Bofors, to com-the water it sinks, but as soon as it armoury"-os Bofors in "world's

ply with the British demand for sinks to a certain level a propeller rightly called-in a landscape that In 1873, a joint stock company was large and quick deliveries, had to is switched on and forces it up again. breathes peace. Imagine an im formed, of which the entire share proceed to further plant enlarge until at the higher level the propeller mense expanse of melancholy pine- cupital pussed, 21 years later, into the ments. These extensions were part-automatically switches off, the mine-

lakes hands of Dr. Alfred Nobel, the ly financed by the British. wood, sprinkled with limpid

begins to sink again, and the process Swedish genius who longed to be a and silvery brooks.

Sweden benefits indirectly by these is renowed, Suddenly, in this fairyland setting, poet, made fortune out of guns and measures should she ever be dragged It is claimed that this kind of nine-

and then donated his into a conflict.

cannot be swept up, the roving dreamer, stumbles upon ammunition

millions to science and peace. Nobel the Workshop of Mars.

On the other hand, it is obvious personifies Sweden, the pacifist world that her risks are greatly increased arms supplier.

* by the tie-up with Great Power After the World War, Germany politles which such a wholesale arms marines, and thallow to destroy sur-- partially succeeded in getting control trade involves.

Unless he has been warned by endlessly rollir thunder from the nearby test-shooting ground (20 miles long!) he will step unawares from the peaceful gloom of the forest, into an ocean of dazzling lights and bustling activity.

Not even Hitler could have expect ed that the detachments occupying Norway's western parts would be able to maintain their communications by

Before his eye now stretches a able to establish communications with

mines, furnaces, them by land from Oslo, and to re-huge complex of inforce them before the Allies could foundries, forges, mills, workshops, land troops to attack them. If Nor- and laboratories where 5,500 work way had inmely submitted that would day and night, in three shifts. have been an easy matter, for rail-

In the stately head office bulld-

company)

way communication would have been

en Ing of the "Aktiebolag (joint. stock

available except in the caso of

been

Bofors" a staff of 050, Narvik. And if

if, contrary to his comprising 370 designers and con- expectations, Norway showed fight, struciors, trives hard to cope with the force landed at Oslo could have the unrelenting onrush of foreign

reinforced to overwhelming size, orders, provided that the British Navy, sub- jected to air attack from Denmark and basca established in Southern Norway, did not dare to enter the Skagerrak.

If that was his conception, it is easy to see how it has been falsified by, Arst, the gallant resistance of the Norwegians and, second, the offensive action of the Navy.

How It Grows

More than 40 States, from world's greatest Empire to smallest republic, form Bofors' clientele,

How international Sweden's armas trade is may be judged in normal times, by a glance into the comforta ble. "Brukshotellet," where the com- pany's foreign visitors-moally con- We do not know how many Ger- troliers and observers are lodged, mans landed at Oslo, but we can co often for months and years on end. fidently assume that they are deficient

Here swarthy Iranians and

ges-] In artillery, mechanised arms and

Spanlords may rubi transport. Some might have been tlculating sunk by the way but in any case, shoulders with phlegmatic Britons It is highly improbable that complete- and domineering Germans, though ly equipped divisions were conveyed directly a war breaks out Bofors stops delivering orders to the nations In- volved.

in the first fest of transports.

From 21,300,000 or so at the end of 1933, Bofors order books swelled to £10,000,000 for 19371

Will it be possible to reinforce the troops which have been landed or to The whole rhythm of the world! keep them supplied now that mine armamenia race, since Hitler set t Bolds have been told and the German going in 1933, can be read in the Navy is dispersed and weakened? annual returns of Bofors. The extension. of the minefield into the Balile is an indication that Allied naval power has come here to stay,

Time, as always, is factor in the situation, and If the Germans cannot speedily reinforce the Oslo troops and equip them, sufficiently to overcome Norwegian resistance the detachmenta on the west coast soon will be in a desperately isolated position.

Unlike many another munitions maker, Bofors need not be scared by the spectre of raw material shortage. self-sufficient in fron The company ore, scrap and explosives:

Gun-making is no matter for in- provisation. It is an accepted dogmal

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Mines are laid deep to attack sub-

face vessels. Often they are laid in zig-zag patterns.

A mine is exploded when one of its soft lend sprouting horns is touched by a ship.

The process is this: In the horns la neld. The Impact releases the actd which acts on a wire, which, in. Its turn, causes 'n primary charge of" black powder to fire the main charge

of 300lb. of high explosive:

British mines are so designed that If they become adrift front their moorings a spring is released which renders therri harmless."

Hague Conven-- According to The Hague

tion of 1907, which Germany ac- cepted; mine-laying is prohibited: outside enemy territorial waters.

The same Convention laid down thai drifting mines should become in- active one hour after, they "are first: dangerous.

Mine-sweeping is done by two.ves-- sele some distance apart Joined by a wire, along which "ls, distributed a series of mechanical or

explosivo- wire-cutters.

This is dragged beneath the sur-' face, the moorings of the mines are- cut, and the mines bob up to the sur- face, where they can be destroyed or swept up. A different problem atises when the mine has no moor-

ings,

An Ingenious enemy can follow the | mine-sweepers in a submarine, 'lay-

ing now mines in a fleld which his.. adversary believes to have been rene: dored safe.

At the end of the last war a special mine-sweeping force was enrolled,: consisting of 600 officers and 16,000 men, and over 23,000 Allied reines "and"some (70° German » minès, were- cleared from the sea in the course of; a year.