MENACE TO SWEDEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 5

MENACE TO SWEDEN

EMPHASISED BY BRITISH MINISTER ANTICIPATION OF TREACHEROUS GERMAN ATTACK. NEED OF BEING ON GUARD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 17. The Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr R. 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 cwn 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 dear grandmother Germany will not touch a single hair of her head. When the ice melts she will try a sharp, treacherous attack in order to get the iron ore field for herself. "1 say, let Sweden see that she is not taken by surprise. We have every sympathy with her position. We are ready to give them every help if attacked, but we must ask them to do everything possible to help themselves. We look to them to be alive to the danger and to see everything necessary is done that can be done to cope with

an attack.”