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Show weekly news analysis New German Troop Movements Threaten Sweden's Neutrality; Norway's Battlefront Widened (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Ria..ri by Weitern Newspaper Union THE WAR: Two Million Men As the British government announced an-nounced that the empire "now has 2,000,000 men under arms" military experts were speculating as to how many of this number had landed in Norway, current theater of World War II. There was terrific fighting in Norway and Norwegian coastal waters, that much was sure. But conflicting reports from London, Berlin and Stockholm clouded the picture. NEUTRALS: Baltic Barometer Ever since the Nazi war machine showed its teeth to their Norwegian neighbors the Swedish people have been hoping that their land will not be the eventual battlefield of the Scandinavian campaign. Vowing to "fight for neutrality" Swedish officials offi-cials now have received reports that German troops and arms are being embarked from Nazi controlled ports directly across the Baltic from Sweden's shores. Some sources believed be-lieved the troops were bound for Norway, but with the ships went Ice-breaking Ice-breaking vessels and it is Sweden's ports not Norway's that are still winter-blocked. ORIENT: Inevitable? After Secretary of State Hull made it clear recently that the status quo must be maintained in the Dutch East Indies and Japan politely agreed, it appeared that for a while at least, Uncle Sam could relax his Nazi official sources admitted for the first time that their forces had clashed with allied troops on Norwegian Nor-wegian soil. Direct combat was centered cen-tered around Steinkjer, where it appeared ap-peared the British had been routed, and around the "gateway" to Oslo, a strategic valley north of that city. It was in this sector near the city of Dombas that Robert Losey, U. S. military air attache, was killed during dur-ing a German air raid. He was hit in the heart by a bomb splinter as he stood near a mountain tunnel being be-ing used for air raid protection. Around Oslo itself, guerilla warfare war-fare was In progress. Small bands of the scattered Norwegian forces teamed up with British troops and staged periodic raids upon points held by the Germans. Germans claimed to be beating off these attacks at-tacks and said they were pushing their outposts further into the interior. - TV''- British air patrols were busy raining rain-ing bombs on German, Danish and Norwegian coastal bases of the Nazi air force in desperate efforts to cut off homeland communications and supplies of troops. Meanwhile German Ger-man officials claimed that England was attacking non-military objects and threatened reprisals they feared bombing of open villages and towns. REAR ADMIRAL TAUSSIG lie jvars uar with Japan. Digging In At home, allies and Germans alike were taking measures to strengthen strength-en the home front. While Germans pulled in their belts another notch with more restricted rations being effected, England launched a salvage sal-vage campaign similar to the Nazi requests for scrap iron. (See cut.) Staging an "Old Iron day." the British Brit-ish government asked for scrap metal met-al of every description. And they got it. Bedsteads, stoves, perambu- vigilance in that sector Just a bit. But as two warships of the U. S. Asiatic fleet sped northward out of Manilla to check on the report that the British navy was spreading its blockade of Germany to Eastern waters, wa-ters, Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig Taus-sig was telling the senate naval affairs af-fairs committee in Washington that war with Japan was inevitable. Said the admiral: "I cannot see how we can ultimately prevent being be-ing drawn into war on account of the Far Eastern situation. We would be warranted in using economic and financial means and, if necessary, force, to preserve the integrity of China." Admiral Taussig believes that the government at Tokyo has a definite program for world conquest that will some day have to be reckoned with. Such a program, he claims, includes the gobbling up of the Philippines, Phil-ippines, French Indo-China, the Netherlands Indies, and other sections sec-tions of the Far East. Next day, Hamilton Fish, Republican Republi-can representative from New York, denounced the admiral's statement and told his colleagues that congress con-gress should investigate inflammatory inflamma-tory speeches of navy officers. He said he believed navy officers thought the only duty of the fleet was to go to war with Japan. Meanwhile a report came out of Tokyo that German and British diplomats dip-lomats were striving desperately for Japan's "benevolent neutrality" in connection with the present European Euro-pean war. Great Britain is trying to extend her blockade to Pacific waters and keep war materials from the East Indies from reaching Germany Ger-many via Pacific shipping lanes, the port of Vladivostok, and the trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railway. BRITISH SALVAGE DRIVE A lesson from Mr. Hitler lators and washing machines were among the thousands of articles tossed into the melting pot to become be-come sinews of war. England also announced a new budget and imposed a host of new taxes and levies. CONGRESS: Slush ' Seeking the aid of G-men, the senate sen-ate campaign investigating committee commit-tee is opening up inquiries into complaints com-plaints of "slush" funds and other political misbehavior in five states Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Maryland Mary-land and West Virginia. Chairman Gillette, Democrat of Iowa, omitted to name the source of the complaints but ordered investigators to check reports he had received. As far as West Virginia was concerned con-cerned there was no secret about the complaint source, for that state's Senator Neely (Democrat) stated he had requested the inquiry to "prevent "pre-vent the statehouse machine from debauching and corrupting the elections elec-tions with the use of money and whiskey . . ." Neely is a candidate for governor this year. In Nebraska, recent primary election elec-tion expenditures were to be checked; Missouri investigators would look for evidence of improper use of funds in that state's senatorial senatori-al race and another race for the senate sen-ate was being reviewed in Maryland. Mary-land. Investigators had already returned re-turned from Kansas with reports of thv-ir findings on reported "improper "improp-er use of state patronage" in connection con-nection with selecting Republican convention delegates. Public hearings hear-ings on this investigation have been scheduled to get under way within two weeks. |