NO NEED TO FEAR

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21177, 29 July 1940, Page 7

NO NEED TO FEAR

DENIAL BY GOERING “STRANGE DELUSION” AMERICA REASSURED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, July 28 In an interview with the American journalist, Karl von Wiegand, which is copyrighted by the Hearst press, Reich Marshal Goering said: “ The American fear of invasion seems a strange delusion, as it would be militarily impossible to cross a moat 3000 miles wide, particularly if America’s armaments are commensurate with the size and resources of the country. “ Our bombers are incapable of flying to the United States and return-

ing without landing. There is much talk of Greenland as an air base, but, as Lindbergh says, it is impossible. “ I hope the delusion that anyone in Europe could contemplate ap invasion of the United States will pass away quickly. I stand by my conversation with Mr Sumner Welles in which I said the sound economic reconstruction of the world is only possible with America’s co-operation. “ The German Air Force is stronger now than it was at the beginning of the war, and our production is still greater than the British plus American deliveries. “My Air Force is completely prepared, at a signal from Hitler, to attack England. The present attacks are merely armed reconnaissance.” Goering claimed that large supplies of aeroplanes and petrol had been captured in France and the Low Countries. BRITISH REPRISALS RUMANIAN SHIP SEIZED INJURY TO INTERESTS vUnited Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 28 The Rumanian Ministry of Marine announced yesterday that the British authorities had seized three Rumanian ships at Port Said, says a message from Bucharest. It is learned in London that the British action followed the seizure by Rumania of over 20 British-owned barges on the Danube. The Berlin radio says Rumania confiscated British ships in Rumanian harbours as a reprisal for the seizures at Port Said. According to a recent official wireless message, recent actions of the Rumanian Government have caused dissatisfaction in London, and a formal protest is being considered. The Rumanian Government has taken a number of measures directly designed to injure British interests in Rumania. It has placed restrictions on the movement of British shipping on the Danube and has enforced measures gravely detrimental to British oil interests by the expulsion of British engineers from Rumania and by interfering with the administration of the Astra Rumana Company, the largest oil company in the country, which is owned by Anglo-Dutch interests. Meanwhile the British Government, holding itself free to impose such measures as it may see fit by way of reprisal for the action of the Rumanian Government, has held up three Rumanian ships in the Mediterranean. SILENT SPECTATOR SOVIET’S WATCHING ROLE BITTERNESS TO RUMANIA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 29 Russia is a silent spectator of the diplomatic manoeuvring in the Balkans, although the Moscow press ; continues to accuse Rumania of ill—- ! treating Bessarabians and threatens : “frontier measures” if the atrocities | are repeated. The Moscow radio today took up the bitter attack on the Rumanians i for atrocities against refugees going to Bessarabia. “Men, women and children from j Galatz were herded all day long in j a blazing sun, then crowded in I ! barges for three days, being beaten, j derided. repeatedly searched and j robbed.” said Moscow. “Then they j were entrained for the Pruth River j I (the frontier) without food or water, , ! and finally they were thrust into a j | ditch and surrounded by machine- i ; guns. Every moment they expected j to be massacred, but they were j allowed to go to Russia. Two were J detained and subsequently were i shot.” ; The Moscow radio says Rumania has admitt ed the just ice of the S< iviet I protests and has promised to prevent t a repetition of such incidents.