NAZIS IN DENMARK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 160, 15 May 1940, Page 3

NAZIS IN DENMARK

GAINS FROM SHIPYARDS EFFECT ON NAVAL SITUATION" Germany's control of Denmark lias an effect on the naval situationthat is not generally realised, says the naval correspondent of the SunJay Times. "Denmark," he says,, "has a large and well-equipped shipbuilding industry. The five principal yards have 20 slips. There are seven grav-/' ing docks. In addition, the royal lockyard at Copenhagen is equipped to build warships up to 4000 tons, [t has built all Denmark's 12 marines, which, incidentally, are now in German hands, as are tha Burmeister and Wain diesel works." Immediately before the war, Denmark was the world's fourth shipbuilding nation, and produced almost as great a tonnage as Ger-r many. Germany's gain from the Danish shipyards is cffset by the fact that Danish and Norwegian shipping overseas is available to the Allies. Now that the first shock of tliq German invasion is over, attention is being directed to the future of Scandinavian and Baltic trade. Normally Britain buys more than BO per cent of her wood pulp,, 50 per cent of her other timbers, 66> per cent of her bacon, and 50 per sent of her eggs from Scandinavia find the Baltic States. Even when the Narvik route is reopened, it will be possible to transport only a fraction of these cargoes. Questions which are unanswered are: "What is Germany going to do with the Scandinavian timber and food trade?" and "Whither can she :livert it?"