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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 ins to be paid.

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

the first order.

Although the audacity of her coup and the kill with which it was organised are impressive, retribution has begun to follow, not merely because liberties were taken with

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A new postage riamp is being issued for liters 31st birthday. It is a reproduction of one of a speciali series of pictures taken by Henrich Hoffmann, Hitler's photographer, with the object of showing that the Fuehrer is "kind man who loves children." The stamp shows Hitler

girl. bending down over a little Our Own Correspondent,

The

A

THE FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN

Best

are made Fairyland

X7HO, or what, is Bofors? It

Wis the name of the finest

gun-making concern in world.

the

are

now

Guns in

The world's eyes turning to Sweden, and here i

JOACHIM JOSETEN,

Greater than Krupp, Schnel- expert on Scandinavian affairs, tolls you of the great arma- der Vickers, Skoda,,-

ment factory of Bofors, which is in the heart of a peaceful and peace-loving land.

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

with the Bofors management that it Sweden, and the countries through- takes at least 20 years of training to out the world who are her enger make a really good constructor. customers, wondered, wher. Hitler

Thus Bofors commands to-day on invaded Norway, if he were not at

skilled

Terror

of the

SEAS

FOR the last sixty years scien-

tists have been experiment-

of the Bofors works, but the Swedish ing with the destruction of ships Government swiftly passed an act and the taking, of life by means. specially designed to prevent this, of mines.

after stirring speech by Richard Sandler, the Swedish Foreign Minis-

ter.

The idea

originated in the six- teenth century, when attempts were - made to use floating charges of ex- He denounced the German grip on plosive against ships and bridges. Sweden's war industry as wholly in- compatible terests,

with the

The modern mine is one of tho country's in- deadliest weapons of warfare,

No Sooner had the German In- It is laid in position. by a mino terests in Bofors been liquidated] layer, either a surface boat or a sub-

marine, which can get rid of 2001, than Grent Britain began to mani- mines in one trip. Test keen interest in Swedish- made guns.

So

The mines run along rails inside the bottom of the mine-laying vessel into- then the Nazi press started mine-traps, from which they slide on hammering away, in virulent tones, steeply curved ralla Into the water at the allegedly "un-neutral" attitude and sink.

of Sweden if she dared to lend her help to Britain's rearmament.

5 Ave 2cally

determined depth.

There may be bigger arms factor- dest ironworks, in 1840 endowed with existing Swedish law and the statutes sinker) les than Bofors, but there is none royal privileges, was the cradle of of quite like it for quality.

the present world-spanning trust.

For two and a-half centuries the Rotors works remained in private ownership,

is also an oscillating mine, dritts, and by mechanicar

There are various kinds of mine.. Sweden, however, did full some The British variety, when it is re- huge British orders.

leased, is pulled downwards by a the same time becoming a menace unequalled stock of highly

Big Developments

weight to which it is attached by a to Sweden's Bofors, and to her rich workers; whose craftsmanship has

mooring line. In the Inst war Ger- strategical principles, but because it iron ore deposits.

been passed on from father to son for

Untrue, however, is a report cir-man minos were often so designed seems pretty certain that Hitler hadBofors is not the name of-an-en-generations.

culated abroad-that- Great Britain that after resting on the sea-bed for. made at least two false assumptions.terprising Individual, but of a small

had actually bought Bofors and sub-in short interval to ensure the mine- Bofors boasts A manufacturing sidiaries. Such It seems impossible that he contem-community hidden in the heart of tradition of nearly 300 years: a mo- wholly inadmissible both under the selves from the weight (called the sale would be layer's safely, they detached them- plated the possibility of Norway offer-Central Sweden. Ing resistance, or that he considered

and rose unattached to a

the chance of the Allied navics operating successfully in the Skager- rak and Kattegat against the lino of communication of his main invading force. Much less did he imagine that they would penetrate to the Baltic.

The Germans, priding themscives on their army and air force, seem to have refused to acknowledge the potency of the naval weapon or its offensive potentialities, though they may realise its effectiveness as a beleaguering force,

Not even Hitler could have expect- ed that the detachments occupying Norway's western ports would be able to maintain their communications by LTD.se. He must have counted on being

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A caprice of Nature placed the "world's armoury"-DS Bofors 15 rightly colled- a landscape that

the Bofors Company. Nor is it conceivable that Sweden would have been willing to allen- ate the most valuable asset of her means maintains itself at a pre-ar- national defence.

ranged depth. Being heavier than The fact 13 that Bofors, to com- the water it sinks, but as soon as it ply with the British demand for sinks to a certain level a propeller In 1873, a joint stock company was large and quick deliveries, had to is switched on and forces it up gair 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. capital passed, 21 years later, Into the ments. These wood, sprinkled with limpid lakes hands of Dr. Alfred Nobel, the ments. These extensions were part-nutomatically switches off, the mine

by the British.

begins to sink again, and the process and silvery brooks.

Swedish genius who longed to be Sweden benefits indirectly by these is renewed, Suddenly, in this fairyland setting, poet, made a fortune out of guns and measures should she ever be dragged

ammunition and then donated his the raving dreamer stumbles upon millions to science and peace. Nobel into a conflict. the Workshop of Mars.

On the other hand, it is obvious personifies Sweden, the pacinst world that her risks are greatly increased Unless he has been warned by arms supplier.

by the tie-up with Great Power the endlessly rolling thunder from the nearby test-shooting ground (20 miles long!) he will step unawares partially succeeded in getting control trade involves. from the peaceful gloom of the foresty into an ocean of dazzling lights and

bustling activity.

Before his eye now stretches a huge complex of mines, furnaces, foundries, forges, mills, workshops, and laboratories where 5,500 work day and night, in three shifts.

able to establish communications with them by land from Oslo, and to re- inforce them before the Allies could land troops to attack them. If Nor- had tamely submitted that would way have been an easy matter, for rali-

In the stately head office build- would have been way communication

ening of the "Aktiebolag (joint stock) available except in the case of

Bofors" a staff of 650,} comprising 370 designers and con-j structors, strives hard to cope with of foreign the unrelenting onrush

Narvik. And I, contrary to his company)

expectations, Norway, showed fight, the force landed at Oslo could have been reinforced to overwhelming size, provided that the British Navy, sub- jected to air attack from Denmarkt and bases established in Southern Norway, did not dare to enter the Skagerrak,

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

orders.

How It Grows

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

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

and ges- in artillery, mechanised arms and Here swarthy Iranians transport.

Spaniards Some might have been ticulating

may ruby sunk by the way but, in any case, shoulders with phlegmatie 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- In the first fleet of transports.

Will it be possible to reinforce the volved. troops which have been landed or to The whole rhythm of the world keep them supplied now that mine- armaments race, since Hiller set it Dolds have been told and the German going in 1933, con be read in the Navy is dispersed and weakened? || annual returns of Bofors. The extension of the minefield Into From £1,300,000 or so at the end the Baltic is an indication that Allied of 1933, Bofors, order books swelled naval power has come there to stay. to £10,000,000 for 1937

as always is a factor in the situation, and it the Germans cannot speedily reinforce the Oslo troops and equip them suffletently to overcome Norwegian resistance the detachments on the west coast soon will be in a desperately Inolated position.

Unlike maker, Dafors need not be reared by ke many another munitions the spectre of raw material shortage. The company is self-sumjelent in iron ore, scrap and explosives.

Gun-making is no matter for im- provisation. It is an accepted dogma]

It is claimed that this kind of mine cannot be swept up.

After the World War, Germany polities which such a wholesale arms marines, and shallow to destroy sur-

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Mines are Lald 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 is acid. The impact releases the seld which acts on a wire, which, in its turn, causes a primary charge of black powder to fire the main charge- of 300lb. of high explosive.

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

According to The Hague Conven--- tion of 1907, which Germany, ne cepted; mine-laying in prohibited. outside enemy territorial waters.

The same Convention laid down: that drifting mines should become in- active one hour after. they are firsk dangerous.

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Mine-sweeping in done by two vesie sels some distanco apart fjoined by wire, along which "Is distributed n' series of mechanical or explosivel wire-cutters.

This in dragged beneath the sut face, the moorings of the mines aro cut, and the mines bob up to the sur- face, where they can be destroyed or swept up. A different problem arises when the mine has no moor- inga.

An Ingenious enemy can follow_the mine-sweepera in a, submarine, lay-- ing new mines in a feld whlelt_lila adversary belloves to have been ren-- dered safe.

At the end of the last war'a special' mine-sweeping force was enrolled,. consisting of "000 ameers, and 15,000 men, and over 23,000 Allied mines and some 70 German mines were: cleared from the sea in the course of

a year.