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Show PROVQ (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY. APRIL 12, 1940 PAGE FIVE mso GERMANS PLANNED FOR WEEKS DECLARES GAETIl lijr ARTHUR GAKTII Npivh Commentator, , Things have happened so fast in the new Scandinavian theater of war, since the Hitler 'blitzkrik'' struck, that it's been difficult for the average reader to properly interpret in-terpret the events In relation to the whole war. Now that we have had an opportunity oppor-tunity to breath between attacks, there Is time to analyze. Our conclusion con-clusion are that the German attacks at-tacks on Denmark anl , Norway havebeen in preparation for-weeks, they were so well carried out. German ships could not have arrived ar-rived In Narvik Tuesday if they had left after the Allied mine-laying. To cover the 1000 miles, they must have departed from their German base last Saturday at the latest. If the British have already made a landing in Norway, they may be able to eave themselves some serious trouble, for landing on the rock-bound Norwegian coast can only, be undertaken through the fjords and harbors most of which have been reported in German hands, -History: gives few reports of successful forced landings in the face of shore-, shore-, batteries, but if the "Allies already have landed without German opposition, op-position, they will save themselves many losses and can attack from land,, where the Norwegian towns will not be well protected . If the British troops succeed in taking Narvik, they will be within four hours by train of the famous Swedish iron mines,, the source of supply for which Germany appar-. appar-. ently undertook the occupation of Norway and Denmark. From Narvik Nar-vik the British could take the mines in one-third the time . if "would take Sweden or Germany to ; send defenses from the south to the area. . England , would " thus strike the most severe ; blow-; she could' possibly 'deliver v against Germany. There are rumors that Germany has demanded that Swe den permit the transportation of Germ.an troops through her territory, terri-tory, ' if she cannot get them up by water because the Allies have' closed the Kattegat. ; Sweden cannot can-not possibly allow that and remain neutral. Even if she did, the British Brit-ish might beat German and Swedish Swed-ish soldiers to Lulea, where they could destroy mining equipment If they could not hold the mines. If the ' British succeed tn taking Narvik, they will have accomplished accom-plished one . of the great strokes of the war and would toe In a position posi-tion to strike harder at Germany than if they killed hundreds of thousands of her soldiers. Forty per cent of German's iron pre comes from that area. There is every possio;lity that if Britain begins to threaten that ore, Russia too,, will come back into .the war-One war-One of the stiff demands Russia made on Finland yesterday was that the railroad . line , which was to be built from the Russia border through Finland; to that Swedish area. vaa. to, -be .. undertaken' immediately. im-mediately. Apparently Russia also is vitally interested in that iron ore. 'V ' , - ' Act of Desperation , , Looking at the northern struggle at - this time it appears that the German act of aggression was one of desperation. The German war machine now geared up must have ifs regular shipment of ore. Any stoppage will destroy the machln-, ery. Therefore Germany was will-! ing to risk getting out on a limb to save that supply - That ; she has lost .it is not at all apparent, but that she. will . have a . very difficult time holding J. is very evident. Bull-dogged John Bui) has been slow- to action, but he has demonstrated today that he is not yet defeated and that when .the going is tough he is at his best. It was Napoleon who' called attention atten-tion to those strange Britishers, who so often lose every battle, but the last one which wins the war. kimo mm 9 1 s- , , v 1 If'sW. Si" I ri "' V ' i Better than ever! Aibersi Carnation Wheat, long famous for its nourishing goodness, now 1 contains 50 more Vitamin Bt than whole wheat. Important, for -steady nerves, good digestion and i normal growth. A, medium serv-.:-. ing provides one-third an. adult's, x ' and, one-half to all a child's daily.-' requirement.' Remember, many authorities say Vitamin Bt can not be stored in the body. It must be , replenished daily! So give your 1 family Albers Carnation Wheat! ; Thin-flaked; it cooks, in a; jiffy.,, Economical, too. Less than half a. cent a serving. Get" new Albers Carnation. Wheat at your grocer's. VttlV ; ,'. Washington ( Continued From Page One ) to the face of these what shall I say ? animadversions against my government After all ah we are fighting with our backs to the wall, so to speak." When U. S. officials suggested that this was. a ' short-sighted, policy pol-icy which would antagonize, the American people, the. Allied rep-, resentatives, made - it clear that they were not courting U S. favor and not hoping for U. S. entrance into the war. : ; : ' pected an attack on Holland, so J that most of the fleet lay scuth of the Skagerrak, between the mouth of the Baltic and the Dutch coast. Finally, the advance group of German transports which suddenly dumped Nazi troops into Norway somehow or other had mysteriously sneaked up the Norwegian coast, several days in advance. . , ' . ' ' - : ALLIED TROUBLES M KENNEDY'S. SENATE, POLL ; This attitude, is based partly on reports of growing anti-war sentiment in this . country. For instance. Ambassador Joe t Kennedy Ken-nedy told ; British officials how he , had, taken a private, poll, of tlie Senate, and found; 22 Senators Sena-tors who had voted for lifting the embargo last fall who would vote "the, other way if the, issu were presented now. In. view of this sentiment, the : Allies have decided, they, have nothing to gain by weakening their Uockade or increasing their expenditure of dollars . in the United States. " . - Any concessions, made will 'be in their own, interest. The British Brit-ish Tommy must have tobacco, and the. British Government will probably, resume buying American Ameri-can flue-cured tobacco, either from stocks held, by. Commodity Credit Corporation,, . or f rorn the new crop when it comes m.'But in order, to conserve dollar exchange, ex-change, they ... are looking " for some means 'of, taking the.- tobacco to-bacco on credit. This, of course, would run up against the Johnson Act, and might start ; again "-the old World War . system of pumping U. S. money in to Europe. . - NORWEGIAN INSIDE, j j. - Out of . the welter , of cables coming out of, beleaguered Scandinavia, Scan-dinavia, the . State . Department now has extracted certain highly significant facts.' i Most important or these is that the British intelligence service found out definitely three days in advance that . the. Nazis conf templated the conquest , of Norway Nor-way ,and . Denmark. In fact, the British had suspicions about this move even one week In advance. But after the - British became convinced, that the- Nazis, intended intend-ed to ' move north, there was a serious split. ' within the British cabinet regarding the.; action , to be taken.' Naval , war lord, Chur chill wanted to take- -vigorous- measures. But Chamberlain was opposed. - ", The ... 70-year-old, Prime Minister Minis-ter was even opposed to mining Norwegian waters,; though in the end - Churchill won out and: proceeded pro-ceeded to lay the mines. These were intended to blow up .the Nazi fleet when it steamed north. However, when the . Nazi flotilla flo-tilla moved 'up $ along : the Norwegian Nor-wegian coast. It. went directly over, the British, minefield, being preceded by a small fleet of minesweepers, mine-sweepers, and' trawlers with cables cab-les strung between them, thus detonating the mines. - - - ' I , ABSENT BRITISH, FLEET J : : One .point . which . has puzzled official observers' here - is." the fact that the British fleet, backbone back-bone of the Empire, was nowhere around? Scandinavian waters when the German fleet pushed its' nose out of the Baltic and headed up the Norwegian, coast. , " Explanation given by the British Brit-ish was : that it was extremely foggy and impossible to see what was happening.- . However, Ray" Atherton, U." S. Minister to Copenhagen, cabled the State , Department that s the long j line, of German, transports and warships was plainly ! visible from Copenhagen steaming north. All day, long, he reported, one after the other, the, German fleet passed through the Kattegat, ob viously 1 headed, .for . Norway and the North. Atlantic. , . . , . . . More, likely explanations of the British absence t were, - first, '.that for the past two or inree weeks, German submarines have .been called back ito'.Nazl sports,, for overhaullng.lNo. Allied ships have been sunk ty submarines., recent !v. And ,-. the British feared : that thef entire Nazi ( submarine J flo tilla- had - set ' a trap ' to. catch the prized ships .of the " British fleeC They- did not" want' to get 'drawn t. into " cramped - waters, y : 'w Second," the " British also ex- - One i significant detail in the German occupation of Norway was the immediate bombing of Norwegian airdromes. This was the same tactic followed in Poland, Po-land, namely to destroy all enemy airplanes immediately , in order to prevent air attacks. Chief handicap now. facing the Allies is the problem of landing troops, in Norway. This is complicated com-plicated by the shallowness of the Norwegian fjords, which caft he "entered only by small vsscl3 carrying few men except in the larger harbors. And the larger harbors have been captured , by the' Germans. For 4the British to take these will be difficult, because the Germans Ger-mans now,: command Norwegian big guns in each, hartor, and also because Nazi submarines can ; easily attack, an invading Allled fleet. v . . Neutralt observers cannot help but agree that the Germans have chalked up another major victory in the long list "already to their credit. .'(Copyright 1940 by United . , Feature Syndicate.' Inc.), . Maine is' the only state in the union which does not touch more than one other state. ' , An English drink made of a mixture, of old strong ale and bitter bit-ter ale is known as a "mother-in-law." 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