NAZI LEADERS AT ODDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1940, Page 5

NAZI LEADERS AT ODDS

RELATIONS WITH SOVIET IN DISPUTE Reversal of Ribbentrop’s Bargain Wanted REPORTED EXCHANGE OF NAVAL CRAFT (By Telegraph,—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 5. The “Daily Mail’s’’ Copenhagen correspondent, says that. Field-Marshal Goering, Herr Hess (deputy Nazi leader), and Dr Frick (Minister of the Interior) are fighting the Ribbentrop group with the. object of abandoning Russia and are doing their utmost to draw Italy into the war. Field-Marshal Goering and the other army and navy authorities ceaselessly opjmse the munitioning ol 1 etsamo and Murmansk and want. a. reversal ol Herr von Ribbentrop s bargain by which Germany retains only Sweden and Denmaik as its sphere of influence, giving Russia a tree hand in securing bases on the Atlantic seaboard in northern Norway. This correspondent slates that, Russian Id-boats will be exchanged for a German cruiser ol the 1 lipper class and if)i aircraft-carrier. The latter is useless to Germany, but the Russians might use her instead of the frozen lake surfaces employed as aerodromes in the winter time. The Russians are using the German material on the north Finnish front, some of which the Finns have captured. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that two German vessels are on their way laden with military small arms for the Russians on the I’etsamo and Murmansk fronts (northern Finland and Russia) from the Baltic Pori, Estonia. They shipped Norwegian pilots in the territorial waters south of’ Oslo, and they can traverse Scandinavian waters almost entirely to their destination. This traffic has been proceeding for a. month. The Germans are understood to be desirous of acquiring Russian submarines, which the Russians are tillable Io handle. Russia requires larger German naval units to replace the cruiser Kirov and two battleships damaged by the Finnish batteries.