DARK PROSPECT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 5

DARK PROSPECT

OPENED FOR GERMANY ELABORATE INFAMY FAILS. EFFECT ON NEUTRAL COUNTRIES. (Britisli Official Wireless.) RUGBY. April 18. There is a growing recognition in most neutral countries of the magnitude and significance of British naval and air successes since the opening of the Norwegian campaign, the development of which, in regard io its diplomatic and strategic implications, is awaited with intense interest. Meanwhile, attention is being closely directed to the detailed accounts of the plot by which the Germans effected the invasion of Norway. One immediate result of these revelations is that steps are being taken in various neutral countries to prevent a repetition of what Norway has suffered. "Meanwhile." says the "Daily Telegraph," “signs multiply that the Norwegian plot has weakened German power. On the new front the prospect for them is dark, and the neutral States are bent on stern precautions to ensure that treachery within shall not open their defences to the barbarian. All over Europe dupes and hirelings who compose the vanguard of modern Germany’s warfare are being dealt with faithfully. What was done in Oslo, with all its shameless lying and brutality, is no more than Hitler and the other leaders whom Germany serves have proclaimed. To weaken friendly States for destruction by planting a canker of treason by giving false assurances, by resort to trick's of the underworld of crime —all this is in the Nazi textbooks of policy. Never before has it all been employed in one elaborate infamy and exposed immediately beyond denial. Countries within the reach of the German fangs would be blind if they could not learn from so glaring an example of what is intended against them.”