PRESSURE ON NAZIS
PLANS ABANDONED MEMEL FORTIFICATION STALIN'S BALTIC AIMS (Reed. Oct. 23, 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 22. The correspondent of the New York Times, in a dispatch from Riga, says that such is the weight of the Russian pressure, according to well-authenti-cated sources, that Germany has abandoned the fortification of Mcmcl, Which is within gunshot of Palanga. It is expected that Russia, sooner or later, will demand the use of Memel as a transit port. Already the Germans have been advised to cease the hitherto rapid purchase of Lithu-anian-owned property. The correspondent states that M. Stalin's demands on Finland indicate that his plans go far beyond the Baltic Sea. The efforts to get the Aaland Islands, which would be more of a spearhead against Scandinavia than Germany, are regarded as an attempt to reach across northern Scandinavia to the dee-free ports of Norway, penetrating from there into the Atlantic.
That the plans have been long maturing :s indicated by the oftreported mysterious Soviet flights ovc- Scandinavia, on which it is believed the roads have been charted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 8
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