ALLIED STRATEGY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 7

ALLIED STRATEGY

NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN PREMIER RETICENT. NEED EOR PATIENCE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received May 1, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, April 30. The Premier (Mr Chamberlain), in the House of Commons, said it was not in the public interest at present to make a statement on the Government measures in Norway. The War Minister (Mr O. Stanley) said the troops in Norway possess full war equipment. A British Official Wireless message says every effort is being made by the Press to publish the campaign in Norway in proper proportion. It is obvious that, although an early statement by the Premier (Mr Chamberlain) would have been welcomed, is is generally realised-patience may be necessary. It is impossible to make public information that might bo of use to tho enemy. Tho Times says: “The Allied forces in Norway are pressing through all the time. The impetus of tho German flying start was not exhausted by thensuccessful landings. The Nazi tricksters and the traitors who helped them have handed on to tho generals in the field an advantage which lias been exploited with energy. Tho problem ol the rescuing Powers, after overcoming the initial difficulties of transport and landing an expeditionary force, was to prevent or at least delay the linking up of the fortresses. To that- end it was necessary to push forward lioldly wherever thore was a chance of cutting garrisons from one another and all of them from the sources of reinforcement in Germany. ' “No doubt need bo felt about tho Allied prospect in the very important area of Narvik,” tlio Times adds, “but it will be no easy task fo prevent a junction of the invading Germans with tho defenders of Trondheim.”