Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1940 — Page 3
ORSE FIGHT NAZIS:
~ COPENHAGEN FALLS
German Troops vate Scandinavia and Create New War Front; Allies Promise Oslo to Send Immediate Aid. : (Continued from Page One)
mark and Norway had been long planned and with the same
precise attention to detail and time-table efficiency that arked the German blitzkrieg on Poland, the invasion of ustria and the march into Czechoslovakia.
French reports for some
days have mentioned unusual
military movements along the German Baltic Coast and to-
ay it was said that practice
landing and unloading opera-
ions had been carried on by German troop units for weeks.
The German attack was
carried out by a flotilla esti-
mated at upwards of 100 vessels, comprising warships, troop transports, mine-layers and auxiliary ships. The flotilla was believed to have left German ports be-
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fore the Allies laid their mines
yesterday. All day yesterday
it moved up through the Danish straits, into the Kattegat and up to the Skagerrak on Norway's southern coast.
Sweden May
Be Involved
It was in the Skagerrak that British submarines yesterday torpedoed at least three, and possible four German ships as well as one German submarine. Among those vessels was
a German transport ship.
Chief interest centered on. Norway and Denmark. But
Sweden may become involved. was ordered and the Swedish
General Swedish mobilization legation at Paris had uncon-
firmed reports of German action along Sweden’s southern
coast. : Greatest nervousness was
displayed in the Balkan area.
Some Allied counter-move, possibly a blow at Germany’s vital flow of raw materials from the Danube region was
feared,
Among all the neutral capitals the opinion was voiced that intensification of the war could be almost inevitably expected. In many quarters there was bewilderment at what
Germany hoped to gain from the move.
It was pointed out
that Germany has always sought to confine the war, so far as possible, to the restricted area of the Western Front where they feel secure behind their Westwall defenses. Now, it was noted, they have suddenly given the Allies a chance to open up another front against the Reich in Scandinavia—a situation which the Allies have long held would
work to their advantage.
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This view led to speculation that the Germans nzay have entertained grave fears that the Allies themselves were about to move into Scandinavia forcefully.
The people of Stockholm were fully conscious of the dangers created for them by the opening
| but there was no indication of nervousness in the capital. Amsterdam picked up a flash from the Norwegian radio that
Kristiansand, on the south coast of Norway, and Oslo had been bombed by German’ airplanes at 11:50 a. m. (4:50 a. m, Indianapolis Time). The Norwegian legation at London said that Porsgrunn, on the south coast of Norway near the entrance to the Oslofjord had been bombed about noon (5 a. m.). After one attempt by four German warships to enter the fjord had been repulsed, the legation said, a German warship went aground in a second ‘attempt. The Swedish legation at Paris received unconfirmed reports that
German troops had landed on Swed-
ish territory, It was emphasized that these reports were unconfirmed. Authoritative informants at Stockholm said that the Government had determined to resist all attacks on the country’s neutrality or territorial integrity regardless of the nationality of the attacker. Amsierdam heard the Stockholm radio announce that the Swedish telegraph system had been partly disrupted and that the Army telegraph service had at once been put into operation. Few Knew Hitler's Plans
Berlin reported from well informed sources that only five or six of Herr Hitler's highest military advisers knew of the decision to occupy Denmark and Norway and that even his closest political
associates learned of it only this morning.
Writer Describes Air Battle Above Norwegian Capital
(Continued from Page One)
by and watched the German soldiers in full war kit march along the central street. The rman general in command proceeded directly to the Norwegian -police i after the Nazi forces had landed. The Germans took over command of the city. The city was quiet tonight and the people were not resisting. About 300 to 400 German soldiers, some mounted and some with machine guns, participated in ‘the march of the first units into the city. Norwegian officers rode in automobiles with some of the German officers, spectators noted. ‘About 20 houses on the outskirts of Oslo were damaged by German | aerial bombs in the course of an|
air raid outside the city before Ger-
man forces of occupation marched into the capital.
Late today a German destroyer, badly damaged, apparently by Norwegian coastal guns in Oslo Fjord, steamed slowly into Oslo harbor, where it anchored. During and before the German occupation the members of the Noregian Parliament followed the Government to Hamar. Oslo was cut off from other points in Norway, and there was no news here of events at Bergen, Narvik, Trondheim, and other ports. « In addition to occupying Oslo the Germans occupied the Norwegian naval base at Holsten, just inside the entrance to Oslo Fjord from the Skagerrak.
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BY NAZIS AFTER BRIEF SKIRMISH
Marines in Sailor Disguise Reported to Have Seized Coastal Cities.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 9 (U. | P.).—Germany occupied Denmark without resistance today, inyaded embattled Norway in a lightning offensive on the southern and western coasts and challenged the combined Allied naval and aerial forces in the North Sea. An air battle between British and Germar planes was in progress off the Norwegian Coast, the Stockholm radio. announced. Reports were broadcast that a sea battle already was in progress between German and. British units. Norway fought back against the German invasion, which struck from Oslo to Far-Northern Narvik in a “protective” campaign which would give the Nazis vitally important aerial and submarine bases just across the North Sea from the British Isles. Oslo fell after being surrounded by German troops and fighting there has ceased, according [to advices to Stockholm.
Residents Ordered to Return
German troops occupied the Norwegian capital, surrounding the public . buildings and communica- | tions centers. Fleeing residents ere ordered to return to Oslo. The Norwegian Government, at war ith the Reich, fled to Hamar, north of the capital. The Nazi invading forces already had moved into all important areas of Denmark, passing through Jutland to Aalborg, the main town in northern Jutland. German planes landed on Danish soil, from which they will be in a position to raid Allied shipping in the North Sea and the British Isles. Norwegians, resisting strongly in the Oslo area fof a time, reportedly sank the 26,000-ton German battle cruiser, Gneisenau. The Germans were driven back several times before landing and capturing the capital. Sweden Worried Other forts reported taken included Kristiansand, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim. Norway was at war with the Nazis because Adolf Hitler's Government announced that it had taken Denmark and Norway -under its protection to offset Allied; attacks on their neutrality, but Sweden prepared for a determined struggle to defend her neutrality at all costs against infringement oy any power. Premier Per Albon Hansson summoned Parliament to meet late today to hear a statement of Sweden's intention of defending herself with all her power and by tomorrow, it was believed, the nation would know whether it could keep out of the spreading European war. Defense forces already have been ordered mobilized. Many reports and rumors circulated as to developments off the coast . of Norway following announcement that the Aliied powers were rushing aid to the Norwegians. One widely expressed belief was| that the British Navy might strike into the Skagerrak against the (Germans.
Russia Watched
Neutral diplomatic sources anxiously awaited word as to the attitude of Soviet Russia, which has worked in close co-operation with the Nazis and, since the end of the Finnish war, has shown a vital interest in Scandinavia. It was understood that the Russian divisions which held Petsamo, on the Arctic Coast, during the war had not been removed from that district.
Swedish = dispatches from the
| nérth said that iron ore shipments
from Sweden's mines to. Narvik, the Norweg jan port from which it is’ shipped /to both Germany and Britain, h been suspended. Ferry service bdtween Sweden and Germany alsp was suspended. Ships “scheduled to sail from Swedish ports for the North Sea— some of them en route to America —were delayed because Germany planted mines along the Swedish coast. Sweden was understood to have asked Germany for permission to remove Swedish warships, now in the Kattegat between Sweden and Denmark, to the Swedish port ‘of Karlskrona. The press reported that the Germans had refused to convoy the warships through the new mine fields. The Government. ordered all anti-aircraft units throughout the country to remain steadfast under any attack, and called for religious services in all churches to pray:
“May God help us in our need.”
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By U. S. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; rising temeparture tomorrow; lowest tonight about 40. 5:16 Sunset TEMPERATURE ~April 9, 1939—
Sunrise
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m. ....29.98
Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jags. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1
Miowesy WEATHER
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WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Weather Bar. Temp. 29.92 46
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Lights Out in Oslo as War Moves Northward
No longer will The lights of Oslo, capital of Norway, glitter in the night as in this photograph. The city was attacked and reportedly
HURRYING BACK TO WASHINGTON. |
/ Safety of 3300 Americans:
In Scandinavia Arouses ~ Diplomatic Concern, | (Continued ¢ from n Page o |
Gen. Marshall was more —— declaring:
“If Europe blazes in the . late}
spring we must put our house in‘ order before the sparks reach thé
| Western Hemisphere.”
HELP IS COMING. BRITISH PLEDGE
Powerful Allied Naval Units Already at Sea, Chamberlain Says.
LONDON, April 9 (U.P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced today that Great Britain and France were rushing “full aid” to Norway against a lightning German invasion of Scandinavia, and that powerful Allied naval units “are now at sea.” “This fresh and rash and cruel
act of aggression will rebound to Germany’s disadvantage and contribute to her ultimate defeat,” the Prime Minister told a cheering ‘House of Commons. As he spoke, a new northern war front was opened up by a “blitzkrieg” Nazi offensive. The reported landing of German marines disguised as sailors at northern Norwegian ports—if they proved to be true—indicated action similar in military history to the famed wooden horse ruse which the Greeks employed to capture Troy in ancient times.
Plans for Aid Not Told
Nazis had been trading regularly with the northern Norway ports, especially Narvik, where they picked up iron ore for shipment to Germany. To all outward appearances, the German ore ships were ordinary merchant vessels. But when the hour struck, orders from Berlin were reported. in Stockholm dispatches to have transformed them into fighting units which already were in position to strike. Mr. Chamberlain's review of the developments in a brief speech in the House of Commons failed to give any definite hint as to the | plans of the Allies for ‘a counterstroke against the Germans except that the Navy was at sea in force, but he mentioned press reports that Oslo and Kristiansand, on the south®Norwegian coast, had been bombed by the Nazis. He denied German charges that the Allies had intendedfto occupy Scandinavian territory and said such statements were “pure invention with no foundation in fact.” A British naval engagement with German sea forces — reportedly comprising a fleet of” 100 or upwards transports, auxiliaries and warships apparently moving in the Kaltegat and Skagerrak—was widely anticipated. Yesterday British submarines in the Skagerrak sank three, possibly four, German ships inclding a troop transport. A German submarine also was reported sunk.
British Are Confident
The size of the British naval force actually in the Skagerrak was not known. However, a substantial concentration of British warships is Xnown to ‘be operating up and down the Norwegian coast, particularly in the three areas where mine fields were sown early yesterday. British reports said that two and possibly three German planes were shot down last night in a German air raid on Scapa Flow and that no units of the fleet were hit. (German reports said that “heavy ~anits” of the British fleet were hit by bombs.) Scapa . Flow residents described Brifish counter-attack to the German planes as impressive.
Scoff at Nazi Sea Power
British naval sources expressed confidence that they could handle and possibly annihilate any German force which attempted a sea combat in connection with Scandinavia operations. They said that at the maximum Germany could not muster more than 30 surface warships. This maximum force, they said, 'would include the battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk today), and | Scharnhorst, of 26,000 tons each; | the two pocket battleships, Ad1 |miral Scheer and Deutschland, of 10,000 tons each, and two cruisers, the .Admiral Hippea and the Bleucher, each of 10,00 tons. Another of these cruisers, however, may have been sunk last December by the British submarine, Salmon.
Balkan Action Indicated
The Germans ‘also have four smaller cruisers of 5400 to 6000 tons and 20 destroyers. There is also, of course, the German submarine fleet of uncertain size and a substantial number of German mine sweepers and other auxiliary craft. The British believed they had their naval position well in hand. Reports indicated they had trapped at least 15 German ships in Nor wegian waters, including seven at the ore port of Narvik, 200 mil north of the Arctic Circle, and eight elsewhere along the Norwegian coast. While major attention was focused on Scandinavia important Allied action is being prepared for the Balkan area, it was indicated: Lord Halifax is conferring th eight British diplomats accredited to southeastern capitals with special reference to cutting Germany off from raw material supplies.
BERLIN, April 9 (U. P.).—German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop told the press today that “the German armed forces will see to it that during this war no Englishman or Frenchman will get a glimpse into Norway or Denmark.” “England has ravished Seandingvia and the Fuehrer today has given the proper answer to their action,” Herr Ribbentrop said. He charged that the Allies had intended to: occupy all of Scandinavia and he said that “only
.through the occupation of Sweden
would England and France be in position to cut Germany off from Swedish ore sources.”
Full Blame Put on Allies
Herr Ribbentrop said that Germany knew that for some: time “officers of the English and French Army and Navy general staffs had been in Norway preparing landing plans and plans for a march southward.” “The Reich Government knew of these plans for some time but the world only now learns of them after, without warning, the British and French invaded neutral Norway and after learning of the incredible cynicism and \ brutality with which England and France sought a new theater of war against Ciermany,” Herr Ribbentrop said Official announcement was de! that Nazi armed forces had “protectively” occupied Danish and Nor~ wegian territory after fighting in the Oslo zone and bombardment of Kristiansand and that the Nazi air force was guarding the Norwegian Coast against any Allied challenge.
* Believe Resistance at End
“Military operations are being carried out according to plan,” an authorized source said after the High Command had announced the peaceful occupation of Denmark {and the occupation of all important Norwegian bases. Oslo was occupied by German forces, the High. Command announced. “It can be assumed that resistance
captured by naval vessels from the German fleet shortly before announcement was made that Norway is at war with Germany.
\Fuehrer Has Given Allies Answer, Ribbentrop Says
in Norway has ceased by now,” an authorized Nazi source announced. The Nazi air force is forming a “flying curtain” along the coast of Norway and Denmark and in the Helgoland Bay for protection against any counter-action by Great Britain or France, i{ was said. The High Command communique said that no incidents occurred during the landing and march of Nazi troops into Denmark. = | Authorized Nazi spokesmen denied that the occupation of the two countries was in the nature of an attack, but said that it was necessary to protect them from Allied infringement on their independence. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, in a radio address directed to Denmark and Norway, said the territorial integrity and political independence of both countries. would be respected. and that Germany would not use them as bases for military operations against the Allies “as long as Great Britain does not compel such action.’ Germans Add to Mines
The official German news agency anounced that “in order to repulse the enemy's projects, ines were laid last night before all important harbors of the Norwegian west coast as well as in the Skagerrak in terriltory ~ between Linesness-Loodbjerg and Flektkoey-Skandnaes-Hages.” “On the Norwegian west coast, German pilot stations | have been formed, whose directions are to be followed in entering harbors,” the agency. “The possibility of the passage of peaceful shipping through the blocked area in the Skagerrak will be announced later.” The memoranda to Denmark said, “Germany, for its part, made every effort to protect neutrals’ rights by trying to confine ‘the Soa war to zones between ermany and her opponents. England continually with the intention of iverting danger from her islands, a at the same time halt German trade with neutrals, tended more and more to carry the war into neutral waters.”
WAR FAILS TO CLOSE U. S. NEWS CHANNEL
NEW YORK, April 9 (U. P).— This morning, for the second time within less than a year, European communication with this “country were disrupted and reorganized without any loss of continuity or momentum in the flow of news to America, Earl J. Johnson, vice president and general news manager of the United Press, said today in a talk at the Living Age Forum. “When Germany moved into Denmark and Norway at 5 a. m., communications with those countries were knocked out, and the news of this new thrust by Germany had to be rerouted to New York quickly by way of Stockholm and Baltic points,” Mr. Johnson said. He recalled that last September with the outbreak of war regular communications routes via London were disrupted and a whole new communications map of Europe had to be improvised on the shortest notice. This was accomplished at that time just as it was this morning, and new routes were devised before the news had any chance of cooling oil.
BUMPS INTO FRIEND
CLEVELAND, O, April 9 (U. P)). —Edward Leonard bumped into an old friend. and went to the hospital as a result. The friend was driving an automobile which knocked Mr. Leonard down. Mr. Leonard refused to prefer charges against the driver whom he said he
was happy to see for the first time in nine years.
Mrs. Harriman
WASHINGTON, April 9 (U.P.).— America’s only woman diplomat, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman—“Daisy” to all her {friends—scooped the world today by revealing that Norway is at war with Germany, Mrs. Harriman, a 69-year-old grandmother who prefers to be known as Florence Jaffray Harriman, sent a cable to the State Department that gave the outside world its first information about the Norwegian Government’s action. She has proved her ability in the diplomatic line since she was appointed in 1937, including her efficient handling of the S. S. City of Flint incident. The State Department places full reliance in her work. One way or another, Mrs. Harriman has been in the public eye almost constantly since she entered society as one of the late Eighties’ most attractive debutantes and then married J. Borden Harriman in 1889, when she was 19. Mr. Harriman died in 1914. Society failed to hold her interest,
and she began taking active part in
World Norway Is at War
PASTORS TO SEEK. SUNDAY CIRCUS BAN
A cominittee of Methodist min isters will confer with’ Mayor Reginald ‘Sullivan and the State Board of Agriculture this week, ‘to deter-
mine what can be done” about ban- |
ning Sunday circus performances in Indianapolis. The committee, composed of the Rev. E. Ernold Clegg, Dr. Guy O. Carpenter and the Rev. W. C. Calvert, was named at a meeting of the Indianapolis Methodist Ministers’ Association in Roberts Park Methodist Church yesterdav. Association members said they had no grievance against tne G.cacer Olympia Circus, now at the Coliseum, but that they wanted to learn if it would be possible to ban all Sunday circus performances here in the future.
JESSEL MUST WAIT 5 DAYS TO MARRY LOIS
DETROIT, April 9 (U, P).— George Jessel today began a fiveday waiting period required undey Michigan marriage laws before taking 16-year-old Lois Andrews for a bride. The 42-year-old comedian asked that the period be waived” so he could be saved “inconvenience and embarassment,” but Probate Judge Joseph A. Murphy rule against him. The Judge said the waiver clause was intended principally to protect minors. : Mr.. Jessel, here for a night club engagement, asked Judge Murphy to perform the ceremony Saturday.
1st to Tell
fights over contemporary political and social problems. Her appointment as U. S. Minister to Norway -took hor irom a top position in Washington society. Her post was comparatively quiet for many months. But when a German prize crew brought the City of Flint into Norwegian waters she jumped back into the spotlight. Her vigorous protestations were credited with being largely responsible for the Norwegian Government's decision to return the vessel to its American crew. She is the second American woman to hold a ministerial post. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde was Minister to Denmark from 1933 to 1936. Mrs. Harriman's actions in today’s crisis were described by diplomatic
with all the speed and good judgment of a highly trained war correspondent. She first sent her news in an urgent cablegram, but then feared it might be delayed in transmission and so telephoned Fred Sterling, U. S. Minister at Stockholm, and asked him also to advise
observers as having been executed |
FRENCH WATCH WESTERN FRONT
Find No Sign of Offensive On’ (Border; Claim Allies Rule North Sea.
PARIS, April 9 (U. P.).—The{ Council of Ministers met at the call of Premier Paul Reynaud today to examine, urgent measures in connection with German extension of war to Scandinavia.
Urgent measures to be taken in concert with Great Britain were discussed. There was some indication that the German movement into the Scandinavian nations did not come as a complete surprise here. French quarters have reported for several days that unusual German troop operations were gecurring along the Baltic.
Claim North Sea Mastery
The French contended that the Allied mines in Norwegian territorial waters gave the Allies undisputed mastery of the North Sea making the: German Navy and merchant fleet prisoners in the Baltic. German submarines, they said, would be greatly hindered in operating against Allied commerce. They pointed out that the Allied mine fields would force the submarines to navigate long distances submerged before reaching open mine-free areas. This, they said, would curtail the range of the submarines by ‘exhausting their storage batteries whereas formerly they could run up through Norwegian territorial: waters on the surface using their deisel engines.
Waich Western Front
M. Reynaud was in telephone contact with the Britsh Government repeatedly and conferred with Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain. Intensive aerial observations were conducted by the French along the Western Front in an effort to ascertain whether there were any indication of a German offensive. No exceptional movement of - German troops was reported, indicating little
Stunned diplomats of Scandinavian countries met to discuss the German invasion of Norway and Denmark. Attaches and secretaries at the" legations were bewildered y the swiftly moving events which overnight had brought their countries within the orbit| of European war. “Unbelievable!” and “incredible!” were the only words of reaction they could muster. The expected prohibiton on U. 8. merchant, ships operating in the new danger area will not ease the, difficulties in evacuating Americans: who may desire to leave. There: are three American warships in European, waters—around Spain-= which could be pressed inte! :| emergency service if no satisfactory / overland route could be arranged.
Total War Feared
In New York, the American Scans & tic Line, only American shipping: company | operating between thet United States and Norway, awaited advice from the State Department . as to the disposition of two of its. vessels now on the high seas en, route to Bergen. The newest German move raised fears among members of the Sene.. ate Foreign Relations Committee: that the European conflict was; rapidly naering . total war, Senator Walter F. George m.} » Ga.) said it appeared that the? Scandinavian | invasion “means the beginning of the war or a large. scale.” He added tha t | Germany’ “has the advantage of saying that’ Britaih had blockaded the coasts of. Norway and Denmark in violation of the laws of neutrality and that? they have gone in to break up the, blockade.” Senator Guy M. Ginette (D. Towa) , said he anticipated ‘some similar. step in the Balkans before long.” x
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American investors have a large:™ stake In both Scandinavian coune: tries, amounting to some 200 million * dollars, including Government bonds. - and direct investments, From Mrs. J. Borde Harriman,’ U. S. Minister to Norway —this country’s only woman diplomat—came* first word: that Norway was at war with Germany. “She also sent offi’ cial confirmation of the German in= vasion|of Denmark. | i Mrs. Harriman advi later that she had taken charge of the British and French legations i Oslo. She said She had ‘acted at the request of British and French, but gave no explanation as to where or why they had gane. Latest State Department figures showed that 552 Americans are resid-
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