GREENLAND OCCUPIED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 5

GREENLAND OCCUPIED

HELD BY AMERICAN TROOPS & POLICE ACCORDING TO DANISH MINERS. STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT TERRITORY. i By Telegraph—Press A.ssoeL'ition—Copyright i LONDON. January 7. Remer's correspondent at Stockholm states that Danish miners on their arrival at ('openhiiopn reported ihar American troops arc occupying Greenland and American police have been posted in one town.

The miners said that Greenland's communication with Denmark has almost broken off. Food rationing was introduced there last April, though there was no shortage. The miners reached home by way of America. Portugal and Germany.

Greenland is the only country yielding cryolite (used in the manufacture of soda and aluminium) in commercial quantities. It also has coal, of a poor quality, iron of meteoric origin, graphite and copper. Though it is the largest island in the world after Australia the population in 1930 was only 1G.G30 .consisting of Eskimos with a mixture of European blood. Denmark's claim to the whole of Greenland. disputed by Norway, was upheld by The Hague International Court in 1933. After the German occupation of Denmark concern at the possibility of Nazi use of Greenland was expressed in the United States and Canada, where it has been regarded as properly belonging, at least militarily, to their sphere of interest, and both countries were known since to have been keeping a close watch on it.