BLUFFING SWEDEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 7

BLUFFING SWEDEN.

GERMANY’S TACTICS. ULTIMATE ATTACK LIKELY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 17. The Minister of Economic Warfare (Mr Cross), in a speech, stressed the importance, of Swedish iron ore to Germany and said that the Nazis could get ore from no other quarter. For another month the Gulf of Bothnia would continue to be frozen up, and Germany could not overlook the fact of the British troops at Narvik. Asking what Germany would do, Mr Cross continued: “We can make our own guesses. Mine is that she will bluff Sweden for one precious month. She will tell her that if Sweden will only do as she wishes clear grandmother Germany will not 'touch a single lmir of her head. When the ice melts she will try a sharp, treacherous attackin order to get the iron ore field for herself. , , , “I say, let Sweden see that she is not taken by surprise. We hav» every sympathy with her position. We are ready to give them every help il attacked, but we must ask them to do everything possible to help themselves. We look to them to he alive to the danger and to see everything necessary is clone that can be done to cope with an attack.”