Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1940, Page 3

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Between F and G German Warplanes Peneirate Northern Norway in Numbers Naozis Expected to Seek Control of Hammerfest And Kirkenes By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, May 6—German warplanes continued today to pene- trate over northernmost Norway in such numbers as to indicate Nazi plans to make victory in Norway complete to the last detail if pos- sible. One phase of this was an offensive in the Narvik region. Dispatches to Swedish newspapers said more than 100 German planes were observed flying in the direction of that Arctic area yesterday, where the allies have their last Norwegian foothold and are trying to gain control of the German-held iron ore port. | Observers here believe now that the Germans not only will push an | offensive against Narvik without de- | lay—but also try to force capitula- tion of such far-northern points as Hammerfest and Kirkenes. Fighting South of Trondheim. The newspaper Aftonbladet, how- ever, reported at least one German | column still facing opposition south ! of Trondheim. It said Norwegians, | trying to hold the Germans east ot Storen had reported a victory this | morning over a Nazi force of 3,000. | Two German planes which made forced landings were seized and their crews interned. Increasing peril from mines adrift with the ice off the west coast was reported. The crew of four | aboard a Swedish fishing vessel were | killed when a mine sank their boat near Goteborg. A German ship | bound for that Southern Swedisn | port also was sunk by a mine, but the crew was rescued. Would Aid Soviet Communications. | . Conquest of the long, narrow | stretch of Norway still unoccupied ! by the Germans would help assure | uninterrupted Nazi communications | with Soviet Russia through Arctic waters. | Germany’s first task in trying to| | bring the north within her hold is }to get reinforcements to her be- |sieged troops at Narvik and the | continuous flow northward of heavy transport planes indicated she al-’ ready had started to drop troops | and supplies. | The chief obstacle to Nazi plans is the difficulty of dropping heavy | equipment to combat British attack. | Rumors persisted that some of the | allied forces withdrawn from Namsos | have been landed south of Narvik, | but these had no confirmation. The setting for this anticipated new German offensive is unusual | both in terrain and foreseen diffi- | culties. Allies’ Advantage Geographic. By land they must push northward along a narrow strip of territory passable only along a deep valley| road which is blocked by exposure | !to sea attack below Narvik and which curves eastward into a maze of mountains, fjords and forests| | above Narvik. Being established both in the Narvik and Tromso areas with nu- merous fjords accessible to their ifleets. the allies have a geographic | advantage. 5.50-17 $6.45 6.00-16 $6.75 TER“S $1.50 CASH BAL. MONTHLY Including your old tires FULLY GUARANTEED Fit all Fords, Chevrolets, Plymouths and Dodges from 1933 to 1910 1220 13th St. N.W.- ME. 0764 Sunday, - She’ll enjoy a box of | ik Gondlis :::made with “homemade” ill from only the finest foods s:.then rushed every 48 hours or oftener to your Fanny Farmer shop. These candies make a wel- come gift for Mothers of EVERY age. 2-lb. boxes or larger, 50¢ the pound. All 1-1b. boxes are 60¢. 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A correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen reported that | Norway's gold reserve fund of 600,- 1000.000 krona ($132,000,0000 had been sent to England for safekeep- ing after being transported from place to place by the fleeing Nor- wegian government. | The gold funds were dispatched | secretly aboard a British troopship, the newspaper said. When the government fled Oslo April 9 in the face of the German invasion, one of the few things it was reported to have taken along was the nation’s gold reserve. Mrs. Roosevelt (Continqed From First Page.) trict institutions on visitors. She said she couldn't understand why visitors from other States don't reg- ister with their Congressmen an in- terest in the “human side of the National Capital.” Even at the peak of prosperity, she went on, nobody paid much atten- tion to building up District institu- tions. The prosperity which might have affected institutions in other places had no effect on the District, she added. Three-Plank Platform. Mrs. Roosevelt also outlined at her press conference a three-plank political platform in which, she said, the women of both parties should be interested. She advocated, first, the formu- lation of a program by which em- ployment can be increased, but which would include a continuing program whereby emergencies can be met by joint action, using Gov- ernment to take up the slack of em- ployment at any time. Her second plank was to work out & program for more permanent peace, and her third was to estab- lish a better health program throughout the Nation which would be of value both to the medical profession and to the people wno are at present deprived of adequate med- ical care. Quieting the fears of newspaper women who were disturbed over a letter sent out by the Red Cross seeking to mobilize qualified techni- cians for the medical unit, Mrs. Roosevelt said the tie-up between the Army and Navy and the Red Cross has always been close, but is closer now because “we have to con- sider the world is more or less in a state of war ‘and th€ natural thing for branches of the military service is to be in a condition of prepared- ness.” She said the proposed mobiliza- tion, made at the request of the Army and Navy, was no different from a national defense program. Sleighing on the High Road has been banned in Letterkenny, Ulster. | had raided British naval units and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 6, 1940. GERMANS MARCH NORTH—German mountain troops began a tough 200-mile trek from Mo, Norway (1), rail terminus, to Narvik, to aid besieged comrades. Swedish newspapers reported that more than 100 German planes were seen flying toward Narvik yesterday. There have been unofficial hints in Berlin that Germans at Narvik might be ordered to retreat to the Swedish border (2) and let themselves be interned. —A. P. Wirephoto. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) last week by the allies, gives no idea of the magnitude of the task. That Germany regards Narvik again as of major importance is indicated by the fact that power divers went directly from Namsos sunk a battleship of the Queen Eliz- abeth class and a heavy cruiser, to Narvik to do their stuff there. Germany believes England is in- terested chiefly in two things—ores and oil, Hitler apparently has decided he| must make doubly sure of remaining in possession of Narvik as the west- ern outlet port for ore from the Swedish Kiruna mines. Meanwhile authorized sources said they were wondering whether and where England next would try to widen the area of conflict. Since England desires to cut Germany off from oil as well as ores, the Mediterranean still is considered the likely scene of major impending events. | At the same time authorized sources kept warning that all talk | about the Mediterranean might bei‘ a blind and that the alleged British | plans really are focussed elsewhere. | Raid Near Harstad. DNB reported that Nazi warplanes troop concentrations in the vlcinlty' of Harstad, about 35 miles northwest of Narvik. The air force, which received the major credit for smashing allied positions in Central and Southern Norway, appeared bent now on ex- tension of aerial supremacy to the Far North before the allies could close in on Narvik. Nazi bombers swept hundreds of miles north from the now quiet Trondheim sector to assail allied positions there. In the bombing of an encampment there, it was said, a store of allied munitions was blown | up yesterday. (A Norwegian news agency #is- patch said German bombers had passed Narvik early Saturday to attack Kirkenes, on the Arctic Coast, near the Finnish Petsamo district. Little damage was re- ported from four bombs dropped at Kirkenes, but nearby com- munities also were raided.) Claim Attacks Repulsed. The German high command an- nounced yesterday that the Narvik garrison—after days of pressure from Norwegian, British and French forces on land and water—had, with the afd of the air force, repulsed repeated attacks of “strong enemy forces supported by flyers.” The German forces of occupation in Central Norway have pushed to the railheads of Namsos and Grong, north of Trondheim, while contin- uing to mop up Norwegian die-hards and stragglers still showing fight— chiefly in the Trysil area east of Lillehammer and around Roros, southeast of Trondheim. Surrender of 160 men and 15 of- ficers who had fought off German attacks from the rocky fastness of Hegra Fortress, 20 miles east of Trondheim, was announced by DNB. The fortress, under German pres- sure for more than two weeks, had been ringed by mountain troops. Blitzkrieg (Continued From First Page.) further work is necessary for air protection and warding off sabotage. He pointed out that Congress now is asked to appropriate for con- struction of an additional set of canal locks 25 per cent larger than the present ones and separated from them by a distance of over a quarter mile. Present plans envision com- pletion of these not before 1945, he said, warning that “if the present troubled international situation be- comes more menacing, we will face an engineering problem which will tax the ingenuity and skill of the engineering profession” in demand- ing speed. Sabotage Chief Fear. The main reason for these ad- ditional locks rests in the danger of sabotage, he asserted. “A vessel might be blown up in the locks; time bombs might be dropped in the locks; dams might be blown up; vital installations, such as control mechanisms or power sources, might be damaged or de- stroyed,” he said. “There is always the possibility that a brain bent on destruction may be one jump ahead of measures for protection.” Gen. Strong surveyed possibilities of attack upon the United States. As far south as Washington air operations could be launched from Newfoundland, he reported. “Dis- lodging an enemy once established on . Newfoundland would involve continued air operations from the northeastern part of the United after they were reported to have, ’Hegra Victory Gives Nazis Vital Airbase Near Trondheim - Defenders Ran Short of Food and Ammunition, Refugees Report By the Associated Press. OSTERSUND, Sweden, May 6.— Norwegian refugees flocking across the nearby border into Sweden said | today that German capture of Hegra fortress had given the Nazis pos- Destroyer Sinking In Namsos Convoy |Admitted by Brifain 1,870-Ton Afridi Lost As Result of German Bombing Attacks By the Associated Press. : LONDON, May 6.—In the midst of vehement public demand for s more vigorous prosecution of the war, Britain today announced loss last week of the 1,870-ton destroyer Afridi in German bombing raids upon the convoys withdrawing allied troops from Namsos, Norway. The Admiralty stood by its denial of German claims to have sunk a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class ad a heavy cruiser in the same operations, But it admitted that the Afridi, 47th naval loss officially announced by the British, was “struck by a bomb and subsequently sunk” dur- ing an “insistent attack” by “waves of enemy aircraft.” The Admiralty said escart vessels’ anti-aircraft fire was so effective that two German bombers were shot down and the transports came through “untouched.” Fifth Destroyer Lost. The Afridi, fifth British destroyer lost since the start of the Norwegian campaign, was acting as flotilla leader of the escort and carried 219 men, She was commanded by Capt. P. L. Vian, who commanded the de- stroyer Cossack when she invaded Norwegian territorial waters last February 17 to rescue about 300 British seamen from the German ! “prison ship” Altmark in Josing | Fjord in Southern Norway. An unofficial military source re- ported that British troops in North- | ern Norway are closing in on the| German garrison, estimated at be- tween 3,000 and 4,000 men, holding the Arctic ore port of Narvik, but that operations of necessity were proceeding slowly and that the im- | mediate capture of the port was not to be expected. Koht Sees Chamberlain. Norwegian Foreign Minister Halv- CREW OF FREIGHTER RESCUED AT SEA—Members of the crew of the ill-fated British freighter Matakana pictured in life boats as they made ready to board the Panama Railroad- Steamship Co. liner Panama. The ship was wrecked as it went aground in stormy seas off Plana Cays, east of Acklin Island in the Bahamas, early on the morning of May 1. The vessel, 8,048 tons, was returning to England from New Zealand with a general cargo when disaster overtook her.—Wide World Photo. “the government would treat it as a vote of confidence.” Informed sources repcrted min- isterial changes were in the offing, but doubt was expressed whether minor cabinet alterations would satisfy critics demanding “recon- struction, not a reshuffle.” dan Koht, accompanied by Defense Minister Col. Birger Ljunberg and | Erik Colban, Norwegian Minister to | London, conferred with Prime Min- ister Chamberlain and Foreign Sec- retary Lord Halifax. i) A terse war office communique th: morning said “there is nothing to report from the Narvik area.” | The Air Ministry acknowledged session of a vital air base at Varnes. | Helgra's fall was announced by | DNB, official German news agency, | last, night. ‘ This base, adaptable for German | bombing planes, is only 30 miles| from the Norwegian - Swedish | frontier and only 375 miles airline | from the northern ore port of Narvik, where a small German garrison is standing off an allied | attack. On Verge of Starvation. The refugees said the big guns| of the Hegra fortress kept the Ger- | mans from establishing a bombing base at Varnes through three weeks of incessant fighting, unfil tHe de- fenders were left * starvation nition.” These accounts said the Germans pushed east from Trondheim deep | up the Stjor valley, between ice and snow-cloaked mountains, in the! early days of the war. Hurled back by big guns, the Nazis called on their Alpine troops to en- circle the fortress and the adjoining village of Hegra, on the Trondheim- Storlien railway' 20 miles east of Trondheim, and launched an attack supported by light field artillery, machine guns and planes. The refugees said that within a few days the fire from the German guns left most of the village a mass of smoking ruins and the fortress itself pock-marked. The German fire was almost continuous, the refugees declared. Heavy Losses Reported. They said the Hegra defenders, forced to conserve their scanty stores of food and munitions, held their fire until the Germans tried a direct assault and then inflicted heavy losses on the attackers, “Our troops could have held out indefinitely,” said one refugee proudly, “but they ran short of food and munitions.” With the food apparently gone and only a few rounds of ammuni- tion left, the 15 officers and 160 men finally capitulated. Farther to the north, many tired and bedraggled Norwegian volun- teers and civilians continue to pour into Sweden across mountain passes. s oo bbb i and in such points as the Ba- hamas and Central America “local forces, due to lack of strength or to distribution or location, will not be adequate to prevent a deter- mined aggressor from seizing bases.” Other points he mentioned that might be seized by “aggressors” are the Lesser Antilles from Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Alaska, the west coast of Mexico and the Hawaiian and other Pacific islands. Speed Held Imperative. To meet such threats requires speed, he said. “The strategic mo- bility of the so-called streamlined division, dependent upon the use of motor transportation, emphasizes the necessity of maintenance and construction of roads capable of bearing the strain placed upon them. This demands a higher per- centage of engineer troops than has been used in the past. In addition, the construction and maintenance of landing flelds for the operation of our air forces is an added burden upon our military engineer.” Other speakers are the meeting were M. J. Gormley of the Associa- tion of American Railroads and James G. McDonald of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. —_— for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 n the verge of | and without ammu- States, and a joint military and naval expedition from our terrie tories,” the me.rll bredicted. There ' for immediate delivery. ‘ | off | with bursts of machine-gun fire and | | ent, Mr. Chamberlain will carry the that two British Sunderland flying boats were damaged by German | machine gun fire while at anchor | Norway yesterday, but denied two Blenheim bombers were shot | down. (The German high command's communique reported the ma- chine gunning of the flying boats and also said the Blenheim bombers were shot down near Terschelling, the Netherlands.) A German air raid off the south- east coast of England was believed beaten off by Royal Air Force fight- ers today. Coastal residents heard the drone of engines above low-hanging clouds a number of explosions. A similar incident in the same vicinity was reported earlier in the day, when a German raider off the coast of Essex drew intense anti- aircraft fire for 10 minutes. Royal | Air Force planes quickly took to the air to pursue the invader. More Vigor Demanded. A crescendo of demands for more vigor in prosecution of the war arose in advance of Prime Minister Cham- berlain’s appearance in the House of Commons tomorrow to explain the allied withdrawal from central Norway. Press and oratory clamored for government changes, but the well- informed Yorkshire Post predicted that “so far as can be seen at pres- day. “He will owe much to the fact Mr. Churchill is standing firmly with him.” The paper said no actual vote was expected in the Commons session to discuss the Norwegian campaign, but that if one were called NG Dinner $2.00—Sat. $2.25 incl. 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Even the Conservative Times, which often does duty as a govern- | ment soundingboard, said “the con- clusion everywhere has been that there is abundant room for improve- ment” and declared “the war cabinet | | is still too large and its meetings | attended by too many experts and advisers.” The more such as Winston Churchill, First jLord of the Admiralty, are being | n: : 8| formed diplomatic observers believe. overworked, the Times said, adding that the brunt of the attack was falling on Mr. Chamberlain, whose | “weakness has always been his de- votion to colleagues who are either | failures or need a rest.” The chorus of press criticism ac- | cused the government of timidity, mismanagement. neglect and plan- ning “on the level of small unimagi- native minds.”. By comparison with Germany's “assiduous care” in prosecuting the war “our easy nonchalant methods look like a nursery game of hide- and-seek,” said the Manchester Guardian. More Than Courage Needed. ‘There seemed no doubt Mr. Cham- | berlain would like to broaden the base of his government by including opposition Labor and Liberal lead- ers, but thus far they have remained cold to overtures. The Labor party at a conference next week end prob- ably will determine its stand con- cerning participation In the war government. Praising British bravery under —_— 1112 G st W, 1346 G 0. 0w, Open Sundays, 10 to 5 P.M. CAMERAS ON EASY CREDIT | CAMERA CENTERS Barnee-Lowe Orchestra ady— Difficult of Handballancing. AT CALVERT Branch its severest political | important ministers, | H ot No. Capitol - Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. fire, the Guardian declared that “Unhappily more than courage is needed in this sophisticated and mechanized world. “All that courage may be wasted if the nation’s policy is ill-directed, imperfectly considered, inspired by small minds and guided by day-to- day reckoning. What is needed is a government that can organize the nation’s strength, touch its imagi- | nation, command its spirit of self- sacrifice, impose burdens fearlessly on all classes, put the war ahead of everything else and look ahead with cool deliberate courage. Nobody can pretend the government an- swers to these needs.” Neutrals Become Doubtful. Britain's task of organizing neu- tral nations to resist Germany has become increasingly difficult in face of the Nazi triumph in Norwa; These sources declare two doubts are growing in the minds of neu- trals, doubts encouraged by German propagandists. One is that Britain and PFrance lack planes capable of overcoming the Nazi air force and have found imports from the United States in- sufficient for their immediate needs. Second is distrust of the ability of Britain’s leaders to deal speed- ily and effectively with Nazi strokes on either military or diplomatic fronts. Koht Urges Faith in Allies. Foreign Minister Koht advised i vaded Norway to have faith in the allies, however, and said in a broa %8 A3 cast that the allies were honare bound to give Norway the “full aid” promised her, Koht, with Col. Ljungberg, came to London after landing at a Scot- tish port from a warship. In his broadcast, addressed to Norway, Koht declared he would go to Paris for furiner consulta- tions and then back to Norway, where King Haakon VII and his fleeing government are in hiding. Observers believed Britain’s task in Southeastern Europe would be increasingly difficult. - “A nation doesn't want help after the Ger- mans have overrun the country— they want it before”—was a com- mon remark in legations of these countries. Balkans Reported Uneasy. The Balkans were understood to be uneasy over the slow start of “Enco,” the newly organized Brit- ish trading corporation. Sources close to the Foreign Office con- tinued to remind these nations that “Enco” is based on a long-term policy. It is evident that Britain’s trade with Sweden has disappeared, de- spite assurances from Foreign Office circles that Britain is eager and ready to continue. The realistic view is that Sweden has no free outlet, since Swedish ports are on , German-controlled waters, Finland's Northern port of Petsamo has been mined and Nar- vik, in Northern Norway, is a battle Zone. As these facts have dawned slow- ly on politicians and the people, the outcry against “complacency” in high places has become greater. Brown Alumni to Dine The Brown University Alumni Club of Washington will hold a din- ner meeting tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Methodist Building, after which the members will visit the Library of Congress, Germany plans to hold most of its international fairs this yea: 624 Year—French, Spanish. Italian, Ger- man or any ether | wade easy by the ly at the GES. e 0% ) Rainel 623 . 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