TO MENACE BRITAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 7

TO MENACE BRITAIN.

OBJECT OF NAZI INVASION. (British Official AA’ireless.) RUGBf, April 11. Discussing recent events in Norway and Denmark, Mr L. £>. Amery, a former Secretary for the Colonies, in a broadcast, said the unprovoked and treacherous attack on two small neutral Powers by the Nazis was dictated by more than the desire to continue I using the Norwegian coast for trails- » porting iron ore. “It was, I imagine,” he said, “first I and foremost in order to control the I whole eastern coast of the North Sea for the purpose of air and submarine attack upon this country and shipping.” He pointed out that possession of aerodromes at Bergen and Stavanger would bring German bombers some 200 miles nearer Scapa Flow and northern Scotland. At the same time, the use of northern Norwegian ports would give German commerce raiders an open window on to the North Atlantic. He suggested that the attack upon Scandinavia might be only part of an even more ambitious and desperate scheme, and might be followed up any moment by an attempt to smash through Holland aim Belgium to secure control of their coasts as well.