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Tjcsd e i) I7?asi vui r i ft time me F German troops who occupied Copenhagen and other parts of Denmark Tuesday are shown embarking from Warnemuende Germany This photo was transmitted by radio "Great oil patrhpg cover the set” (British official reports said ’no battleships bad been hit but that two cruisers received "very slight” damage ) The German bombers took off from Danish and Norwegian airfields during the afternoon following up scouting reports from the North sea (A Berlin radio report received by the National Broadcasting company in New York said a German airplane base has been established at Jutland at Denmark’s northern tip ) The high command also announced that only at Oslo and Krlstiansund was "stronger resistance" met and that both places had been captured Other Bases Other important bases In German hands are Narvik an outlet for Swedish ore bound for Germany as well as the seaports of Bergen Trondheim and Stavanger The armv command said sufficient German troops were at Norwegian and Danish coastal fortifications to resist anv hostile k while German reinforcements pour swiftly Into the northern countries The allies are not hampering these troop movements It was contended German notes to the Danish and Norwegian governments Tuesday morning declared that Germany "had no Intention” of using the occupied sreas as a basis for operation against England so long as she was "not forced to do so" by the English ‘This Affair Is None of Our Business’ Declares Norris Hysteria to Be Avoided Says McNary While Senator Pepper (D) Flor- ida declared that "it brings the shadow of th war and conquest by force nearer the shores of every peaceful country in the world including our own” Senator Norris (Ind) Nebraska sard that "this affair Ls none of our business and we should keep out of it" ‘Same Old Froceu’ Norris described the march into Scandinavia as "the same old process-take whatever you hav the power to take" Senator McNary of Oregon the Republican leader declared: "The United States must keep calm No matter how distressing the news Is from Europe we must keep our heads and not be swept into hysteria If we maintain our poise and equilibrium they will help us to withstand these recurrent shocks from Europe ’’ "The invasion of Denmark and Norway" said Senator Brown (D) Michigan "is condemned by all thinking people It makes the situation more serious I see no reason however why our government should act This is a time for calm contemplation I think the long view of the situation will show that Germany has made her task much more difficult because Senator Thomas (D) Utah expressed the opinion that the United States had had "too many shocks of a similar nature" to let Its plans to remain neutral be upset War Double Crosses Magazine's Editors 9 April (P) — Editors of the Kitty Kat University of Arizona humor magazine were confronted with a major editorial crisis Tuesday night The deadline for the forthcoming issue is Wednesday night and most of the copy was in the office when the editors' hypothesis reversed its field: The issue was to have been devoted to lampooning the lack of activity in the European war tie when Denmark's Bourse Closes Doors BERLIN April 10 (Wednesday ) (Th— D N B the German news agency reported from Copenhagen early Tuesday that the Danish bourse had been closed Indefinitely Ferry connections with Sweden were shut down civil air traffic over Denmark was banned and a general blackout was enforced throughout the country all night ACID CHEST MAKERS OF WORLD-FAMOU- SHIRT PHILLIPS-JONE- S S it it woven (not cut) life of the shirt Se it on display COMPARE THE I Nd Mor T Than “Jutt Salv Rliv DISTRESS! guaranteed for th today! 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Scandinavian wood puln viti the rayon Industry Japan' industry may be similarly affJ P iWV9W"iw f 1 Engla" Unlied Slate in 1418 t a tlm They were bought when the American government feared Germany might invade Denmaik even as she has Just now done and claim sovereignty to th Islands 0 bl11 a flnt of claims with th United State over possession of AnN arctic lands w here Amerlc an and Norwegian claims overlap 'Ih Iceland Greenland Antarctic situation is occasioning no gieat worry now hut Denmark t one time owned a bevy of Islands in the West Indies which If she owned them still might cause serious disquietude These islands known a th Virgin islands or Danish West Indies wer purchased by th 15 ' Denmark” Informs Mussolini German Ambassador von Mack-ense- n informed Premier Mussolini of Germany's latest move In a call at 7 a m (Authoritative sources in Berlin Intimated that tl duce had no advance knowledge of the Scandinavian coup ) Vlrginio Gayda who often speaks for Mussolini said in II Giornale d’ltalia that there was no reason to dramatize the new phase of the war Signs of apprehension visible among Italians in the streets were 'aeklng In government quarters where it was said that Italy would e continue Us attitude until Its own interests become involved Scandinavia like Finland in its war against Russia was considered too far away for repercussions to reach Italy Balkans Anxious Italian and foreign observers alike failed to share the anxiety felt In the Balkans that General Maxime Wejgand’S allied army in the near east might be drawn into the war by the opening of a new 'ighting front In the north Italian newspapers maintained frankly attitude They excused Germany’s "armed protection” over Norway and Denmark as fitting reaction to England's “open violation of Norwegian neutrality” by sowing mines along Germany’s sea route Gayda said that Norway’s "brief resistance" to landing German troops was "only a formal gesture ke the Oslo government’s protest Monday against England’s mine blockade" lr WASHINGTON April 9 The spread of war to and Norway was bad news American business Tuesdsv "w' economic experts in the com department said to th United Sta”tMforIW of th large bacon orders form nlI placed In Denmark To a lesser extent they the United States might some of the butter and which the Danes were The chief blow to America! V ROME April 9 CD-B-elief Gerhad won a major tactical victory by invading Denmark and Norway was linked In the comment of authoritative Italians Tuesday night with the conviction that there still was no immediate danger of Italy’s involvement in the war The official Rome radio news broadcaster put the general Italian view of Adolf Hitlers stroke in Scandinavia this way "The war between Germany and Great Britain and France started this morning The first round was won by the Germans when they stole a march on the allies and wait-and-se- iNc Face Jolt but Dairy Trade May Profit many occupied )1 U S BnsincSs Says II Duce’s Aid German Seizure of Denmark Brings Hitler Nearer U S WASHINGTON Blow lo Allies Forestalled In Baltic Coup PeopI e Urged To Cease 194(1 Invasion Deals Reich Victory Moore-McCorma- Useless Fight ’APriI 10 - Hitler Pours Troops Into Denmark Italy Acclaims Invasion as NEW YORK April 9 (Ah— Two Norwegian ports to United States hips and seamen American ships en route to NorCommander Robert Lee vice sudwar when way Europe's of president denly spread over night to Scandid not explain the change in dinavia received orders and orders to the ships at sea but made it clear he anticipated the counter orders Tuesday which closing of Norway Another inIndicated their operator expected dication of this belief came with the United States to add Norway the line's order to its Mormac-po- rt to its list of countries circumto stop loading cargo at scribed under the neutrality act Baltimore The vessels are the 4941-to- n Two other vessels of the line Mormacstar and the 4951-to- n were in Norwegian ports the Mormactlde of the By Loait P Lochnrr new $2000 000 Flying Fish at line the last United BERLIN April 9 dolf 'i Bergen and the Mormacsea at States firm shipping between Trondheim but plans for them mighty German army this country and Norway were indefinite treamed Tuesday with speed and news of the When the first new war developments was reprecision Into Denmark and Norhere the line ordered the way by land by sea and by air ceived to ships "proceed slowly" on aeized the venerable capitals of their course Tuesday night Copenhagen and Oslo brought both vessels were directed to d turn around at sea and steam about a new government in Norway and extended the slowly back toward New York This second order was diswartime "protection” of the third reich to two kingdoms 3750000 patched after President RooseDanes and nearly 3000000 Norwevelt told reporters that a proclamation to put Norway and BERLIN April 9 UP)— The Ger gians Denmark met the invasion with Denmark under the provisions man official news agency andisciplined nonresistance Norway of the neutrality law might be nounced from Oslo Tuesday night met it with scattered fighting issued Tuesday night closing that a "new Norwegian govern which the Germans termed "local" ment" bad been formed and "slight” principally at Oslo The agency DNB stated in an fered original battle to four Ger After the Norwegian capital had man warships In Oslo fjord and the Oslo dispatch that a representative in midafternoon capitulated United States minister Mrs J Bor of the new government read D N B the official German news den Harriman reported to Wash- proclamation to the Norwegian agency reported that the regime ington that the Norwegian govern- people at 8 30 p m local time of Premier Johan Njgaarsvold had ment had advised her It was "at (Earlier dispatches had told of turned over its powers to a cabinet war with Germany " The Germans the German occupation of Oslo and headed by Major Vidkun Quisling however denied Norway had de- of the departure of the governNorwegian nazl leader as premier clared war Through the morning ment headed by Premier Joham and foreign knlnlster Quisling in Oslo's antiaircraft guns roared and Njgaardsvold which was then esa radio proclamation at 830 p m several German and Norwegian tablished in the village of Hamar (12:30 p m M S T) called upon planes were reported shot down: to the north ) — the people to cease resistance to two German ships ware reported The proclamation was read from the German army and avoid "crim- sunk at the north Norway ore the Oslo radio station presumably inal destruction of property” and port of Narvik now under German control by demanded that the Norwegian But by 4 p m (8 a m M S T ) Major Vidkun Quisling head of the his de"national govern- Olso had surrendered and green-cla- d Norwegian nazi party who army obey ment" clared he was the head of the new German troops after a march from Moss on the government of "national assemTo Protect Norway roast were in the capital’s streets bly" He said according to DNB that Quisling said he had takn over and in possession of government to "protect Norway” buildings German officials re- his new government had taken Earlier the Njgaarsvold govern- placed the Norwegian police chief over power in Norway "in order to ment had retreated to the lake who resigned Withdrawals from protect the interests of Norway at hamlet of Hamar north of Oslo Oslo were stopped although there this moment” and half the population of the was a faint Indication of further The new government was said to capital had fled with the Norwe- Norwegian resistance In the Stock- be formed of professors none of gian army drawing up a defense holm report that Norwegian sol- whom is internationally known line between Oslo and Hamar At diers had formed a defense line least one Norwegian port Kristian-sun- d between Oslo and Hamar on the west coast was bombed by the German air force Armed Protection because Germans said it resisted The German high command said the army of the reich had assumed occupation D N B said that only a portion "armed protection” of Denmark of the Norwegian government left and Norway to anticipate occupaLONDON 9 (PI— The Oslo for Hamar and that two tion of those two countries by April members of that government later British and French troops and to Copenhagen radio reported Tuesreturned to Oslo and Joined with ward off an attack upon the reich day Premier T Stauning had an nounced to the Danish parliament other cabinet men in forming the from the north Quisling government Using armored trains ferries and that negotiations were under way the German trodps for reconstruction of the govern(Sweden remained untouched by warships the German thrust There was no moved into Denmark with the first ment The premier referring to the confirmation of reports that she streams of dawn while Infantryhad mobilized The Netherlands to men seamen and air squadrons ingrave sorrow” with which the the south nervously canceled army vaded Norway's coasts— a vast country had received "news of toleaves 1 carefully planned operation which day’s events” declared “our purburst upon the world less than 24 pose for our country and people Nazi Fleet Move hours after it had heard about the was to save them from disastrous Germany's fleet steamed up the swift sowing of three mine fields consequences of the war " With German bombers over the northern North sea into Norwe- in Norwegian waters by British capital and the frontier crossed gian ports in position to match warships These mines were intended to by German forces he said the fury with the British navy minelayers! infested the western coastal trap and halt German ore ships government had to accept the Gerwaters of Norway and the Danish from Scandinavia Their planting man demands "Germany has assured us she provided Germany with an opporSkagerrak The reich's formidable air force tunity to answer— thunderously— has no Intention to violate Denmark's Independence and territook possession of strategic air- Tuesday torial Integrity" he added ports in Norway and Denmark Bright new Mess e r s c h m i 1 1 s Moving Early warmed in patrol over the west (But it appeared that German coasts of the two countries other troop ships were moving north formations swept out over Helgo- even while the British mine fields land bight in an aerial blockade were being sown One such ship ef the "protected" nations the Rio de Janeiro was torpedoed Bergen Trondheim and Narvik off the south coast of Norway MonBETHPAGE N Y April 9 UPt- -A were among the important Norwe- day by a British submarine with e fighting plane de350 lost Tuesmen In gian ports reported occupied parliament scribed as the fastest in the world day Prime Minister Chamberlain and available for the use of the No Resistance commenting on the reported landDanish troops did not resist at ing of German troops at Trond- French and British air forces was demonstrated Tuesday by the all Under protest the Danish heim Norway said that city was Grumman Aircraft Engineering and to 700 submitted Germiles from the nearest government king the invasion and told their people man port Cuxhaven and said the corporation While data was It was their duty to offer no forces must have started before withheld performance it was evident from the whatsoever the British early general 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