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SWITZEHLAND1 "GE.':.ti.iAiiY .2LAYING ALLI:;:;s 1 GAl'.iE. 
'I'he wisdom of the Gennan attack on Norway is _questioned in today's Swiss Press. 
The GAZETTE DB LAUSANNE, the Liberal newspaper, writes: "One seeks vainly for the advantage o'f: the Reich1 s penetrating Norway. The d~t-aohments which made sur-prise landings at coastal towns can only receive sup..,)lies from the sea. The Allies can much more easily support the small Norwegian army than can Gennany her expeditionary force. 
"By sending out her fleet on this adventure, Germany is simply playing the Allies' gan1e. In operations against weakly escorted transports, the Allies' superiority in destroyers will soon play an important part." 
Stating that it is noteworthy that Gennan official reports repeatedly use the phrase "all is going according to plan", DER BUND, the Radical Democratic newspa-per, declares: "This is an admission that the German plan of occupation already existed and was worked out to the smallest detail." 
The Zurich newspaper VOLKSRECHT, the Social Democratic organ, writes: "The violation of two more smal~ pcacefu~ neutral peoples is having its effect through• out the world, although the conclusions that the world will draw are not yet clear. By speed and audacity, Germany wished to create an impDession o'f: strength for internal political reasons and in this she was doubtless momentarily successful. But the challenge to the British and French prestige requires that proof must be given of sea might." 
Sympathy for Denmark and Norway is expressed in the S'r GALLER T.A.GBLATT, the provincial Radical Democratic organ. This paper a.dds: "We can look back only with disgust upon the German trick last year of offering the Northern neutrals non-aggression pacts. Only Denmark accepted the pact and inihis it was declared 
that in no case would either side resort to war. In the circumstances, no value attaches to new German protestations that she does not intend, now or in the future, to infringe the territorial integrity or political independence or the occupied countries." 
BELGIUM: GERlii.ANY Is 'SUICIDAL STROKE". 
The general view of today's Belgian Press is that Germany's invasion of Norway is not so successful as was first thought to be the case. 
LIBBE BELGIQUE, the Conservative organ, states: "After losing the first game, the Allies are hourly regaining precious ground," and LE .PEUPLB, the Socialist newspaper, writes: "The British Admiralty has been reproached by certain neutral journalists for lack of foresight. Can one reasonably exEect it to foresee a suicidal stroke from the enemy, or even if they had foreseen it, to prevent such an act of folly. 
"The information at present received, implies that the German adventure in Norway is becoming a veritable disaster. " 
Almost without exception the Belgian papers emphasise, by headlines and communiques the im?ortance of the Allied successes so far and many journals compare Norway's attitude of defiance with Belgium's in 1914. At the same time, the .?ress supports the Belgian Government's decision to ..aintain a policy of neutrality and points out that such a decision must be backed by a detenninatiom to resist aggression. 

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U, S. A: BRITISH .A.DUIR.\LTY'S ATTITUDE PRAISED. 
The belief that the British Admiralty is adopting the right course in its attitude tovvards the release of news of the naval action being fought off Norway is ex-_pressed in today's llf.G'i! YORK TD.lliS. 
Recalling the premature release of news of the battle of Jutland in the war of 1914-18, this paper states: "The _\dmiralty is wise to keep silent. The validity of two facts is now established beyond. question. With splendid courage Norvra.y has mustered her small arnw in a desperate effort ~t resistance. The second. fact is that the British fleet has begun the action with courage and a full realisation of the critical importance of the issue." 
The NTE\; YORK &RALD TRIBUNB S~)eculates on the consequences of Victory for either side in the naval battle, and adds: "It is clear that victory for one or the other side might be enough in its direct effects to decide the ¥7ar••••• The possibili"bJ of Gerrilany 1 s vd.nning the war must be faced. " 
A :Jtockholm dispatch to the HKvl YORE TD.:l::S states that Allied mining activity in the Skagerrak vvill sever the German lines of communication. 
References to the U. S. attitude to the German invasions of Derunark and Norway were contained in an article in the \U'"SHn;GTON POST, which stated: "It must now be asked whether the subjection of Scandina<.ria to Nazi domination is regarded as a matter of no real consequence to the United States, If so, then Hitler may rest assured that any further blows he has in preparation will also be accepted toler c.ntly by a country unable to distinguish between security and the temporary immunity now vouchsafed. us." 
'iiestbrook Pegler, the well-lcnown columnist, in contrast vvith his usual attitude~ condemned Germany. He wrote: "Any American businef.<s man vvho has attempted to operate in, or with, Germany can testify that it is folly to trust a German business firm under Nazi rule. Many great public improvements in Germany were paid for with money that Americans loaned in good faith and whioh Hitler then confiscated in bad faith. There is no excuse for pretending to think, so as to avoid a terrible d.ecision, that the Nazis exclude the United States from their plan to conquer or dominate the peoples of the world. and use them as robots to produce the means of supporting a chosen people. 
"The German is told. that he is on a higher level. .Americans are very frankly regarded as mongrels or vermin. They offend the sight and the finer sensibilities of the chosen people. To say that one hundred million patriots will sprine to arms to defeat the .Yazis is to beg the question because Hitler will not attack by arms until he has first disrupted and. corrupted his victim. 11 
:;cermany whose propa,i:;:anda in the lJhitea. Stat,__ s ho.s largely been directed to keeping alive isolationist sentiment~ has cancelled -,m.atever success she might have attained by the lightning invasion of Denmark and. Norwey," affirmed. the Clli"'VELA.ND PLUE DR.4.Ll.m. "Reaction to Jdl.:i..s new inexcusable act of ac&;r ;:;B"sion will be far reaching on this sioe of the Atlantic. Denmark, Norway, Swed.en and Finland have always been held in the highest esteem by Americans. That they should be d.estroycd on the lJazi pretext of 'protecting1 them and. that Germany should extend. her barbarous government to the most orderly and civilised countries in 
:E.'urope, can only anger free men everywhere. " 

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;:)·,;l..:DGH: RUSSIA ·.,:-\TOHING DBVl_,;LOPl:ENTS.
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"Russia is keepinc; an eye on developments and there are rumours of long 
talks between the German .\mbo.ssad.or and. the Russinn Government~" 

This statement vvas made by the STOOKHOLlIS TIDNffGBN in an article which began by pointing out that despite the Danish surrender in order to spare the people war "it is possible that the country vvill be the object of an attack in the future and will suffer as a result of the blockade. 
"The British hope to entice the German fleet out to fieht has now been fulfilled, but they have so far not succeeded in landinp; troops to help Norv:ray. It is on that that the final issue depends. It would not be much help to defeat the German fleet and. allow the Gerrr.ans to remain in Southern Norv1ay." 
~fter the reference to Russia keepine an eye on developments the article 
continued: "There is also news of Russian troop concentrations and the final 
Russian attitude will probably depend on whether Germany or the Allies win. " 

DAGENS NYHJ-;'.I·J.i-:n, the Liberal organ~ stated yesterday: "The German statement declared that the action was taken to protect Norwegian neutrality, but the German Government appeared to doubt the N0rv;egian Government's appreciation of this explanation so strongJy that they counted on armed resistanee and instructed their Minister in Oslo to inform M. Koht that this resistance v:ould be broken dovm. 11 
Continuing, this paper pointed out that the Germans themselves dtd not maintain that the British mine-laying caused the invasion but that it •tas rather due to the alleged Allied plans against Seandinavia, and added: "But hitherto no German communique claims that the protection of Norway's peace, if successful, would. be very advantageous to the German war machine." 
Turning to the question of the U. s••f.\.., DAGBNS NY1mT£R added: "No doubt exists as to the impression in America, where 1Ir. Roosevelt advised. the Isolationists to think more about the implications of the b'uropean struggle than they have been doing. The President has never made any secret of ·what he thinks of the dangers of an Allied defeat, and American policy has supported. the Allies since the outbreak of vva.r. This policy is the best ansv-rer to Nazi propaganda in America attempting to convince A.mericans that Germany is fighting to save Europe from the Plutocracies." 
The SOCIAL DEMOKRATm pointed. out the proximity of Sweden and Norv1ay and the danger to Swed.en of a German viotOI"'J in Norway. This paper stressed that so far the fighting had not been all to Germany's advantage, and. added: "German troops at Narvik are in a very difficult position since the British are sinking suppJy ships and other losses also are reportea. 
"If the Allies succeed in cutting Germany off from Norway German troops would be isolated. and. it would. be impossible for the Nazis to pass through Sweden in view of Swedish neutrality which Germany has specialJy requested. 11 
"The German occupation of Norway seems to have met with a number of serious reverses11 , affirmed. the GOTEBORGS MORGONPOS'.L'..·--__ ,,Can Germany now demand a passage ·-for troops over Sweden? If Ge~eeds in Norway England's situation is .1lr~ari~-.but..-even--f3o-the1msition is not bright for Germany. " 

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In an effort to convince its readers that the navo.l battle off No:t'l':iC\)I' is 
:proceeding successfully from the Nazi point of view the German Press has con• 
tradicted itself .... some papers denied that a large battle Yvas in :progress, yet 
nearly all of them were full of alleged German victories at sea~ 

The LOKAL _U~Z:I;;IG.CR wrote last night: "The story of an alleged great sea 
battle is o. fants.stic fairy-to.le." 

Similarly the D.GUTSCKG .\LLGK~..:HIB ZJ~ITuNG declared: "The Anglo-Freneh 
:reports have follovred. each other so rapidly that it is clear they can hardJy 
have been examined. There is not n. word of truth in the story of a great sea 
battle. The only fi~ht that took place Yro.s at Narvik where three British 
destroyers vrere annihilated and. another British destroyer ·was disabled." 

The !;.NC-RIFF said: "The allef3ed sea battle was supposed at.first to have 
raged. over a front of 250 miles, but in the Bnglish newspapers the front grew to 
1600 miles and. the sea battle to be the greatest battle in vrorld history." · 

In contrast with these statements the German Press and wireless were full 
of a constant stream of alleged German sea and. air victories, and so often was 
the Nazi hymn of hate "Denn wir fahren .'3egen J.;ngelland" (For we are off to 
fight against J~ncland.) sung over the vvireless that it v.ras possible to give only 
one verse instead. of the usual fam. 

The KOELNISCHE Zr.]ITUNG used the head.line "Ten Hours Lead Before Unsuccessful action of Western Povrers" and. ·wrote in a leading article: 11According to unimpeachable evidence in the possession of the Reich Government the \iestern Pov-rers intended. to occupy the vvhole of Scandinavia. The Anglo-French troops were then to advance south as quickzy as possible and invade Germany. This flank attack prepared by the \festern Powers to ·which, judging by past experience, the Scandinavian States would have offered no resistance, has no•• been forestalled by Germany through the Fuehrer's bold decision." 
This line is adopted by a number of German newspapers, although no further 
mention is mad.e o:' the possibility of Dr. Goebbels publishing documents con.. 
taining the "unimpeachable evidence", which no doubt would. be about as genuine 
as the last German i.hite Dook ~ :: -~;;.;-· described. by one American paper as "cooked. 
up propaganda. " 

A message issued. by the German News Agency for publication in today's 
papers "improves" upon l ~r. Churchill' s stateEent in the H0 use of Conui1ons on the 
Rodney in two ways. First of all it says that i:.Cr. Churchill admitted. that the 
Rodney had. been hit by several heavy bombs, and. then it argues that the Rodney 
was not at Bergen at o.11. '1.:Iell-informed circles in Berlin'; it contends ''know that the Rodney was so severezy druno.ped. by direct hits in the raid on Scapa Flow on j.:arch 16th that she could not possibly have accompanied the 
British transports for the intended. occupati on of Bergen. :Gvidently heavy 
darna~e to the Rodney at Sea.po. Flov.r could no longer be kept secret in ~n5~lana. 11 
The IDK\L .. 'JTZ:·~IGJ::R warned Gvreden against printing reports favourable to the 
!1.llies~ stating: " i3ome of the Swedi::::h newspapers and vvireless stations 
accepted the British lies v-vit h the uhnost willinr;mess. It has evidently 
escaped. them that the ~~·vedish Government has proclaimed. its unconditional 
neutrality and. that this neutrality i mplies an attitude of reserve towards 
obviously false and transparentzy tendentious reports." 


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TURKEY: NOH,11".Y'S INVASION "VIILL CONTRIBUTE Tu GERJ:..iANYls DEFEAT." 
"Far from contributing to the victory of Gennany, the latest developments 
will contribute to her defeat." 

This comment on the latest events in Norwegian waters was made in ULUS, 
the Ankara newspaper, . which declared: 11The German pretext that they only 
forestalled an Allied invasion of Scandinavia, is comparable only with other 
specious pretexts for the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and Poland. The 
Nazi attack on Scandinavia had been carefully prepared or else the occupation 
could not have been effected so widely and swiftlyo" 

CUMHU.21 .lET wrote yesterday: "Once again it has been proved that the 
Totalitarians do not attach value to International Law. Nevertheless, this 
German reaction to an intensification of the blockade should be viewed with 
satisfaction,' for it proves to neutral States that the present war, although 
apparently directed against the Allies, also constitutes a threat to their 
existence. The best answer to the German allegation that the Allies pro­
posed to invade Norway is provided by the Norwegian denial that they had any 
such intention." 

After stating that the invasion of Scandinavia had once more proved 
how impossible it was to rely on German pledges, YENI SABAH declared: "The 
only language understood by Germany is that of strength. If all countries, 
great or small, grasp the situation properly and perform their duty 
accordingly, the Nazi plague .ould be stamped. out in a shorter time." 

TAN, referring specifically to the Allies' mining of Norwegian waters1 
affirmed: "The measure was the result of Norway failing to observe her 
obligations of strict neutrality." 

HUNGARY: REACTION TO NAVAL BATTLE. 
Though some Hungarian newspapers printed. Berlin reports stating that the naval battle off Norway being won by the Germans, NEi/IZETI UJSAG, the Catholic organ, used the head.line: "British Fleet Scatters German Transports in Skagerrak. " 
This paper also declared yesterday that American public feeling was 
growing in favour of intervention. 

MAGYAR N--:=:.=zET, the Christian Conservative newspaper, published Italian reports favouring the German point of view but added: "It would be a mistake to believe that the issue of the Scandinavian action will itself suffice to decide the issue of the German-Allied conflict. " 
The PEST..C:H LLOYD ABENDBLAT'r had a leading article on the problem of collective collaboration on international territories and pointed out that recently frequent acts of sabotage had been reported in areas subject to international jurisdictiono It was added: "The question arises whether some form of common control should not be established in the interests of the parties concerned. The strengthening of local police on a basis of parity may be the possible solution." 


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Ji:GYPT: ARAB SYJ: iPA'I'HY Ii'OR .'cLLil;S 1 IIJ.GALS, 
Arab sympathy for the democratic ideals of Britain and France was referred to in AL _l\.HR_.\.:M. 
Mahamed Ali Allouba Pashap a Cabinet Finister well-kno'lm for his interest in Arab affairs, stated in an interview vri th this paper: •Pae .Arabs and Moslems in supporting the Allies and. bearing the burdens of the international crisis, do so prompted by our conscience and. our beliefs. Our religion and our traditions preach democracy which is no other than the freedom of consultation and justice, in defence of'. which the Allies entered the war. Our aims and efforts meet on a common ground, which is to ward off from ourselves and ~he Allies the menace of those who disregard rights and violate liberties. 
"\;e and the Allies have similar feelings vvhich prompt us to stand up for right, the establishment of peace and. the spreading of justice. If our ally is victorious we shall all reap the fruits of victory and shall emerge stronger and more united since hardships unite hearts and bring the peoples together. " 

The action be:L"lg fought by the :Sritish Navy off Norway is described by the CORRGIO DA liANil\ as "one of the t.;;reatest feats of a navy already covered in glory. 11 
This paper adds: "Only the Baltic remains open to Germany. If Nar~ is so important that Germany attempted such a desperate adventure, and. asswning that British troops are already there, Hazism has lost a decisive card ·which ma:y forecast the end of the war." 
0 JORN.;\.L ridiculed the .German claim th2,t the Allies intended to invade Scandinavia and. emphasised that German preparations were made long before the attack. This. paper also criticised Scandinavia and the neutrals generally for not rallying to the Allies 1 side. 

Belief in the supremacy of the British Navy was expressed in the Ivionte Video neY;spaper EL P:1.rs. 
In an editorial article entitled "Rule Br itruhnia", this journal declared: "The Allies have at last decided. to make their strength felt where argument a..nd reasoning failed. to move the neutrals from their inaction. · 
"Fear of Hitlerist atrocities was bringing about a singular neutrality :imposed. by fear, according to which every action of the barbarians had. to be tolerated,while the civilised nations were expected. to conform to internati9fial lavr to the last comma of the most remote convention. 
"'i'his situation could not continue. The _o.llies had to make it understood that they too, were in a position to use force as efficiently as their e;::emies. ~le vrould then be faced viith the strr.nge paradox that only then would the :fear­stricken begin to think for themfeielve:::. The British Navy is on the move and has shown that Britannia•••.••. may the civilised. world be thankful...•• continues to rule the waves, " 

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HOLLJ\ND: "HMSIVE HELP OF BHITISH NAVY." 
"The manly courage of the Norw~gians and the massive help of the British Navy" were expressions used by HET VOLK, the organ of the Social Democratic Labour Party, in corrunenting on the latest events in Norway. 
This paper added: "It how seems possible that the policy of aggression is going to end in failure~" 
This writer strongly supJorted the Norwegian interpretation of neutrality and rejected the suggestion that other neutrals should nowt prepare, with the Allies, for a possible violation of their own rights because "This would give Germany an excuse to fall upon us." 
The UTRECHTSNIEUWSBLAD wrote: "The Germans have underestimated the Norwegians just as they have a ain underestimated the British Navy. In the last war, England was compared with a whale -an unwieldy mass, but woe to others when he gets going. 
"Now we see J:ngland in full action, full of activity and daring. She has had the shock she needed, and it is due to the greatness of the Gennans to say that they alone have been able to give that shock • . It is also their fate. En~land, for the time being, is as if unchained. We are curious to see the moral effect on the German people when it discovers how it has been misled and what a power the British are in the North Sea." 

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The following official communique was issued from French G.H.Q. this morning:­
NOTHING TO REPORT. 

12/4/40 -NO: 2. 
Ministry of Health. 
Appeal for stretcher bearers at Hospitals. 

The Minister of Health has advised hospitals to recruit volunteers to act as stretcher bearers in the event of air raids, or in any other emergency which entails the moving of large numbers of patients. Men available for this work are asked to apply, preferably in writing, to the nearest large general hospital, voluntary and municipal. They should state whether they could attend at night or during the day, or both. They would only be called on when their services were reQuired, and the work would consist of loading and unloading ambulances at the hospitals and in carrying stretcher cases inside the hospitals. Suitable instruction and practice would be given to accepted volunteers. 
MINISTRY OF HEALTH. 

R. !" F. BOMB STJ,VJ'.NGER ./,ERODROME. 

The Air Ministry nnnounces:­
Two attacks were c~rried out yestcrd~y evening by aircrnft of the R. h .F. 2g2inst the enemy who have occupied Stavanger aerodrome.One of our aircrn.ft has f niled to return. 
In the first, the enemy aerodrome was subjected to n very hoc..vy attqck by o. formation of bombers. Our aircraft were met with strong n.nti n.ircraft fire but dropped their bombs with nccurncy n.nd in addition to doing other damage set fire to the petrol dump. 
In the second c~sc another formntion of our aircrnft carried out n low flying attack and raked with machine gun fire a ln.rge number of enemy o.ircrnft which were drn.wn up on the lnnding ground, Much do.mage w~s seen to hnve been done. 
AIR LFF/\.IRS !­

PAP~R TO BE i1EAD AT SPRING MEETING OF THE 
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ON APRIL 12TE,19l+O 


~y J.C•. D~Wes, O. B.E., M.I.Mech.E., Deputy Control ler of Salv~ge, · Ministry of Supply. 
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Munici pal ·salvc.::ge is not a new YE.mture. Nearly all the refuse disposa1 plants er<:;cted in this country. since the last war have been of a -~ype wh~' ch makes salV8.ge work possible. There were at the beginning of the p~esent war no less than 70 of these plants in Engl a!1.d arid. Scotland; .no leas than 1,600,000 tons of refuse per annum werFJ.po.ssed through tbe English plants, and some salvage work wo.s done at each of them. , At many of them salvage operations were carrieq.· on intensively. In ·addition, some 20 Local Authorities have v.rhat ·are usually referred to as "organic" salvage plants for .the reduction of abattoir and fish wastes to feeding meals and fertilisers. 
No other country, to my knowledge, has municipal refuse ·salvage plants of the s2.rr1e type. In fact, comparatively few municipal salvage pl ants of any .type are used abroad and it is 
correct to say that more salvage work from domestic refuse has been done , in Great Britain stnce the l ast war than in all the Contine:qtalcountries corr~ined. ' · 
The modern refuse di Bpo,sal plant bf the separation or "salvage" type, o.s we know it, was introduced as a result of the activities of. the National Salvage Council which was set up in 1917, and durihg the last 20 years hundreds of'· th·ousands of tons of' useful mat erials have been salved t"'rom house refuse and sold. for millions of pounds. · · 
Soon s.fter the present war commenced the Government, realising the importance of' salvage work, decided to set up another organisation, not a Council t his ti~e," but a special Department within the Ministry of Supply. As you know, one of the first decisions taken by the new Department was to ask for monthly Salvage Returns from al1 Local Authorities ·in England and Wales whose districts ho.ve populationp of 10,000 or over, and from .districts in Scotland with po:puiat1ons of 5,000 or over. 
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The first monthly Return was for November, 1939, ' ~ When it was found that the Loce.l Authorities referred to were selling salved materials o.t the ra te of' 26 1 731 tons per month of a value of about £30,000, or £360,000 per annum. Tonnage de tails are givtn later. These figures co.n f airly be taken as representing the pre-war salvage o:rerations of the Local Authorities in England and Wales beoause the new Department did not begin to function until the end of that month when the official Salvage Circular was sent to all Local Authorities. The figures g.iven represent the value of salved n.~T~e:L"'"lo.ls sold, but they do not tell the whole story because they do not include the value of what might be called "indirect" sal vage wor-k which includes the sale ·or utilisation.of steam for the generation of electricity or other purposes with a consequent saving of coal. The value of this form of utilis~t10!1 might be estima ted at £6, 000 t·o £7, 000 per month. 
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_ Ago.in, there is the increased value of reclaimed 
or improved land" as a result of controlled tipping, but 
no figure -CO.I). l:)e Given for this. . . If it were possible to 
give a figure it would be subst~ntial. 

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The fi~1res are,; however, sufficient testimony to the pre-war determinativn of . the officers responsible for public cleansing operations to o.ssist industry, and, incidentally, their own rC!tepayers, as and when possible; but good as they may be for peace-time operations, they are not good enough to meet war-time needs. They serve _, one useful purpose in thc:.t they can be used as a basis from which to calculnt~ the value of the additional .salvage work undertaken as R result of war..;.time activitieE\, and, 
-as I propose to show, they have now been considerably improved upon, but lest any should feel a sense of . satisfaction at the improvement which has alr.eady t~ken place, I must remind thein that much further prog;ress is absolutely essential in the national interest. 
I have referred to the figures of November, 1939 
as a basis, because the Salvage Department of the Ministry 
of Supply came into being during November . 1939, and issued 
its fir.st general Salvage Circular on 30th November 1939.. 
When the Returns for, December were available it was found 
that a slight increase had taken place both as regards 
value and tonnage, the figures being 30,056 tons and 
£32,869, whilst those for January of the present year were 
still better at 35,073 tons and £35,577, but the weather 
co.nditions during this month were bad and interf'ered wit)l 
routine collection work. The t onnage figures for 
February are not yet available but ~he value is 
approximately £42, 000,. an incr.ease of 40;:-~ over the 
figure of November 1939. · · 

Many Local Authorities now have excellent 
salvage schemes in progress, notwithstanding local 
difficulties experienced in the early stages, but many 
others are still doing compara tively little. As a 
matter of f act the negQtive Returns f or February numbered 
341 and represented a popu1,a tion of 6t million; · the 550 
positive Returns received represented a population of. 

· 32 million. · 

The r eason so many Local Authorities do no 
salvage work and many others do very little appears to be 
a mistaken conception of the relative importance. of 
salvage work at this critical period of the nation's 
history; it mu s t be cleo. rJ:y understood, however, by 
every Local .Authority and esp,ecially those with routine 
r~fuse collection services, that the salvage of such 
waste materials as .paper, metals, bones, textiles and 
foodstuffs for livestock is equal in importance to 
munitions production, and the other war services, of which 
no one ever dreams of doubting the urgency. When the 
salvage of the mat c;rial G to which I h<1ve referred, as 
viell .~s others, receives the attention its :'.mportance 
now demands the r esults will, I hope, .be ver·~/ different 
from the figures given earlier in this paper and will , 
refidcir uhriecessary the consideration of any form of 
compulsion.. 

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·when this importnnt f C'..ct is g·ener:..1..lly realised it will be found thnt thouso.nds of tons o:t' wnste po.per, .metals, bones and textiles, all of which o.re now importf.'.nt war mtlterio.1s, are nvnilnble for collection in our own 
·· country!' These ma terials ought to be, and in plain l anguage, mu.st be made nvailablc for OE I> industries. I feel sure .that the Local Author-ities w.ill give the help necessary to secure this, and I ' am ccrtQin that the hous~holders of thE:. land c:.re now ·p1~erio.:rod to do their part, provided they are told precisely wha t thejr Local Authorities expect of them. The wo.stcmaterials I hnve singled out for emphasis o.re riot the only ;ones required. ]'or instance, the matter of collecting household kitchen waste hns become urgent in mo.ny districts where the shortage of pig food ·is now acute and, a:::; you know, other waste ma terials 10.re scheduled in ·SalvO.gc Circulo.r No.1. 
I hope no one will mind my stQting the present 
salvage .position in pl&in terms; I do so because it is 
necessary and ·to encou11 nge Local Authorities nnd their 
officials to give the country tho very best assistance 

·possible• There 2.re o.,nd :vvill continue to be isolnted 
:cases where calleetions of. ver·:l !.sma ll q_uantities of waste 
·materials may not be :pr(1ctical$ or economical, as for 

instance, in.·remote. hamlets f . but .by fc.i.r the grea.ter part of the populHtion, ove1' :f.our-fifths, :is served by ref'use collection: services, and these services can become salvo.ge 
· 	services · even. if' it mec.ns modify.i ng the refuse . collection arrangements should this become necessary~ 
This htts o.lrec~dy ·been done in a few cases, but 
only a few; in the groP.. t ma jority of cases no importt=mt 
modification has been f'ound necessc.ry in order to proceed 
with salvage operations• 

... 

·Effective municipal salvo.go work in war time r,1eans 
..	much. more tho.n local collect·ions o.nd sales of' waste materials.; it saves the lives of' mercho.nt seamen as well as the~r ships; it saves currency; it ensures regular supplies of raw materials to vitnl industries; it helps to keep the Expeditionc,ry J:i,orce, the Air Force cmd the No.vy supplied with equipment o.nd munitions, cmd, indirectly, it helps with their food supplies~ These immensely important f'acts must be gr:::tsped and npprecio.ted if we are to put forward our maximum effort to win the war in the shortest possible time. 
I have often heo.rd such remarks as these: "We have instructed the men t o o.cccpt \.Yetste rru.".terinls when they are offered", or nwe have sent out lenflets but the response has been poorll, or "The men are fully occupied with their normal vrnrk and cannot do more", and so on, but, on examination, these are often in the nature of excuses and reveal a lack of' en t:msi asm -· in ot :1·ar words, the will to salve is not pr'esen-t" ­
No one hAs ever said that the materials are not there to be salved, and no one has questioned the need for salving them, but sorr:.e have t aken the view thnt if the Government want the muterio.ls they ought to introduce a national scheme to obtain t hem ap<J.rt from the local 
/refuse 
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refuse collection services. No doubt this could be 
done, but what of the time and the cost? · Think of the 
stFtf':f' a.nd equipment which would be needed to-duplicnte 
nn existing routine service. Why increase the cost of 
the war unnecessarily and add to the already. heavy
burden of taxation? 

The effective nnswer, however, is th~t manyLoco.l Authorities, l nrge o.nd small, have clearly demonst~ated thnt the waste materials so urgently needed ~be salved by grafting snlvnge schemes on to their ref'use .collection orgo.nisntion. Mnny such schemes are now work:ing smoothly and well and producing the desirc.d results. If' the stnndRrd reached in the best organised districts were .to become the 'st:::\ndard in all districts the figures I have quoted would be incrensed by at least four times. 
In 25 towns the· latest avnilo.ble figures show that s[!lvo.ge work at the r nte of fully £35. per annum per thousand of the populo.tion is now being carried out; in 10 of these towns the figure is over £50. At the other erid of the scGle mnny districts are ·still s.ubmitting nil returns and in rrn:my the figure is well under £5. per thousand. I run not suggesting thnt a fixed standard is practic2ble for all towns, because loca.l conditions and methods of refuse collection and disposal mRke differences unavoidnble. Further, most of the Local Authorities returning a :figure of £35. o.r over have refuse sepc-tration plants, but not all of them; three dispose of the refuse by controlled tipping; what I 
.do seriously suggest is thr.:et, given the nec,essary 
determination, the present f'ie,'Ures f'or the towns below 
the £35. limit can be substantinlly incrensed and I 
hope and believe they will be and in the very near :f'uture. 
This being a meeting of Public CleansingOfficers you will expect me t o give you some detailed f'igures, because I know and understand your specinlinterest in such dat~. The following are taken from the Departmental Monthly Returns f'or November and December, 1939 and January, 1940:­
l\:lINISTRY OF SUPPIX -SALVAGE DEP.ARrliENr RETURN OF MUNICIPAL SALVAGE SALES FOR 3 HONrHS FROM 1ST NOVElIBER 1939 TO 31ST JANUARY 1940. 
DIRECT SALVAGE 
I 
\ NOVEl.IBER

MATERI1iL ' 
Tons Value £ 
. Tons Value £
• 

Paper. Clean : 2910 6501 
Other >i 1645 3410 

4555 9911 Ferrous Hetals ~ 
I -­

-"BlaCk Scrap" '-770 1213 
"Destructor Scrap" I I 4390 5264 

,I• ... 

6260 7559 Non-Ferrous Metal s . . . 
Other Scrap 1100 1082 290 1101 
Textiie=s-t . . . 
479 2380 Betties ! I • . 
. 
422 1440 1 Jars . . . 
133 189 ~'ii'Mlet" ! . . . 375 356
" 

Fuel Cinder ! I . . . Screened Dust • -porAgriculture I I 2346 ':.96 
Brickmaking ~ 1461 28
" 
Other Purposes i 837 _ 48 Agriculture (Free) ! (2459) ­
" 
Other Purposes (Free) 1 (7277) ­
" 
Hanure 
Meat Ueal 
Dried Blood 
.2!J£_anic Fertilisers 
Bones Household Bone Meal 
Fats 
. . . 

. . . 

. . . 

. . • 
70 158 6 58 
. . . 


waste & Condemned Fish f . 
i . • • 

Fish lieal .
• 

liiscellaneous 
• . • 
Free Screened Dust 
TorAL:

-
hr363 1254 

2590 638I 1120 50 
46~+ 572 871 31 
(2716) ­
(9736) ­

(85532 ­241+4 317 
. . . 
130 670 

. . . 
19 197 

. . . 
247 409 

. .
• 

88 230 76 216 
I 
6 71 
. . .
32 549 

779 . . •
291

33.. li-03 • • • 
.
9736 -I 
26724 £28094 I 
DECEMBER 


Tons Value £ Tons Value 
£ 2441 6844 1950 4079 
4391 10923 
-

790 1241 4741 5037 1188 1781 
6719 8059 
. . . 
383 2443 
. . . 
591 2730 
592 1852
. . 
• 

174 205 346 369 
. . 
. t . . 
. . . 
5432 1755 
I 

9li-3 280 ' • . 

4581  725  
(11269 4655 69 22 310  -378 439 250 834  
9li­23 1041 64 569 11269 30056  301 376 148 742 340 -£32869  

JANUARY 

Tons Value Tons Value 
££ 
3190 7637 2328 4993 5518 12630 
584 839 3411 4600 
800 1136 
4795 6575 I 3088 ,..1.999 ! 17774 22193 
TorAL ill' S.ALVAGE SAIES 3 months to 31st J anu~ 1940 
Tons Value Tons Value 
£ 
£ 
8541 20982 
5923 12482 

14464 33464 
2144 3293 12542 14901 
. . . 
532 1435 
450 2688
. . . 
785 272-1
. . . 
114 374
. . 
• 
. . . 
393 333 
. . . 
7667 2380 
I 
6478 295 
223 27 
697 25 

7398 347 (1249~ ­
(21983) ­
20734 ­4120 1380 126 816 41 492 149 822 
130 269 
29 

106 298
2 
31 322 948 67 142 635 
1758 1262 21983 ­~5073 £35577 
-
I 
' 1205 4979 ·· I 1520 7798 1799 6013 421 768I 1114 1058 
I 17962 5389 
11414 1429 
2804 105 
2405 110 

16623 1644 (6424) ­
(42988) ­
(36564~ ­
11219 2075 325 1925 82 939 
706 2065 
361 657 
15 158 

276 815 '86 12li-7 2768 506 239 1780 
3270 1882 42988 ­91853 £96540 
' 
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GR.Al'ID Tor.AL for l!-months 1st N0 vember 1939 to 29th February 1940: £139225 
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I hn.d hopud t o include the dcto.ilod figures f or Februr1_ry, but this hn.s not been possible· because of the delay in s0nd.i.ng in the Monthly Return Forms. As 
o. mo.tter of f act, the .whole of .tho Returns for Pebrunry hnvc not yet. been received. On this point we should like it t o be noted thr1.t ret.urns .should' be sent in by the 15th of the f oll9wing month•.. r cnn, however, tell you thn. t the vc.luc of :tho s.21 vn,gc sold during February, in so. f r.r ne we know from the RetU,rns $Cnt i:h, is £42,685. 
. : .. '·· 

'!ou. wfli be nble t o mnkc mnny irit(;)rcsting deductj_ons f'r' om the ::..bove d:::~,tn. For instance, the tonnage of' vmste pci-.por i.s tncrc~:.sing; : the figU.re for F'ebruury wns 6,773 tons, 'or. 2_3;·; ~'.bove thn.t 1·o:r Jnnunry, und 50% 
n.b ove thnt for :i'Tovembc1' last; but the proportion of' clean pnper (60~;;) if:> . t oo low,. much too low ; . we should like to see the clcnn p:.1.p-e.r t onnage increased four or five times. As regnrd·s f'errous mE:!t c•.ls t he f i'gures show fi1i.c tuntions with n dovmvmr·d tendency, but the non-ferrous f'igures nppeo..r to be moving in the right direction. Textiles, too, ho.ve shorrn mc,r:'!~ed chc.nges. The bone collections which a.re of' very grE::nt irnport.~nc.e...2.r..e .noor but .~tre improving; none of' these results cc.n be considered sa tisfactory f or wnr time. 
You will be po.rticul(trly interested in the figures f or the col l ection of' j:j_tchcn wnste fo1• pig f'ood; the l a test e.vnil:'.ble ehow tho.t 58 Local i~uthorities nre now calleeting, :':mt in some plnces the ~:unounts nre q_ui te ·small a s yet. ,.\ccording t o th8 Returns the surplus sold in January wn.s 3!.1-3 tons; 26 Locc..l Authorities .wePe keeping 3,651 pigs, but I think it cc'.n be t:--Jrnn that this figure is an underst~tcment. 
In nsscssing the 1'igures given in the above table it must lJe kept in mjnd that districts with populations under 10,000 in Englo.nd o.nd Wnles, nnd under 5,000 in Scotland, nr P-excluded; that the wenther conditions in Jo.nuo..ry seriously intc::rfered wj_th all collection work Rnd thRt no cre~it cnn be shown to indicate the value to wnste merchnnts, deo..l crs nnd voluntc-,ry collectors of the publicity work uml.erto.ken by rrmny LocG.l Authorities. It co.n, however, be t fl.ku:n f'or granted thn.t this had the effect of' turning much Wf'.'3 te mr.terio.l into the normal tro.de cho.nnels. 
To sum up; the gener al inference to be drA.vm from the f'i e,'l.lrc:;s, ancl f'rom the experiences of the Salvage Depo.rtment of' the Ministry of' Supply, is tha t the municipal salvo.ge scheme is no-N g[:j_ning momentum nf'ter a rn ther slow beginning. Over 551 J..iocc,l Authorities out of a possible 1, 112 nre now mrJ:~ing positive monthly Returns, but the amount of work being clone i s not yet nen.rly enough, with the r e sult thr' .. t the tonnage of' the n.vnil~ble WD.ste material now being collected i s insuf'f'icient to meet the needs of industry. 
'.f. 1he signs o.rc th~:'.t the t onnage will be increased before long, but the important qu estion is how long, and by how much? I 8.ppenl to th(; Clcr:.ns ing Of'ficers present, and to every Locc:.l .Authority represunted, to mnke every possible effort to organise their l~c2l snlv2ge schemes on the best possible lines 2nd m..'1k e [~vail.-i_ble the grea test possible t onn2gc in the shortest possible time . 
/Before 
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Bef ore I conclude I rrhlst pay a tribute to the work of the Honorary District Advisers of the' Salvage Department. We have plnced at the disposal of Local Authorities expert nnd sound practical advice and it is gratifying t o know thnt the gentlemen who are acting as Hi:mor r:i.ry District Advisers hn.ve been kept very busy some of them exceptionally busy. This clearly proves that the Local Authorities value such ndvi.ce and as.sistance, c.nd :::~ t he<~dq_uarters we l<..now that as n rcsult of the untiring c;fforts of the Honorary Advisers many Authoritics havo st:n ... tad salvage schemes or further developed thor'.>e they hn.d in being. . .. It has been so.id for ·gener~tions thnt if one W[lntq· to ~get a good job done one fihls t go to c. busy mtm. we invited ·very busy men to act a s our Honorn.Py District Advisers and they hnve fully demonstrated the truth of the old snying. 
Ministry of Sup9ly1 Press Office , Adelphi, w.c.2. 
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SH387. 


12/4/lJ.O -No. 5. 
R.A.F. ATTACK ENEMY SHIPS IN KATTEGAT 
The Air Ministry a:rmourtces: 
During last night Royal Air Force bomber aircraft carried out attacks in force on enemy transport and supply vessels in the Kattegat and in the Great and Little Belts to the South. 
Preliminary reports indicate that among the objectives attacked was a vessel of about 8,000 tons, which blew up \IYi th a violent explosion and must have been carrying ammunition. 
AIR AFFAIRS 


No. 6. 12.4.40. 

~±.\§_IC RA'I'IOH HQ.Q:fCS. 
The current Basic Ration Books for private ca.rs and motor 
cycles expire on the 30th Aprila 

N"ew books to· cover the period of' three months 1st May to 31st July will be &Vailaole on and after Mono.ay next, the 15th April, at T... ocal Ta:rntion Offices and at Post Offices at which motor licensing business is tl'ansactede 
The Registration Book of tlle vehicle must be produced. at the time of application.. 
PETROL FOR .FARMERS. 
Fa.rmers and others engaged in agriculture are reminded that applic;ation for petrol allowances for use during the months of May and June should be made to the Divisional Petroleum Officer at once, 
The special application forms required. can be obtained at Local Taxation Offices or at Post Offices at which motor licensing business is transacted and also from the County Secretaries of the National Farmers'Uniono 
The Registration Books of any registered vehicles should be enclosed,, Jl.t should be noted that farmers~ ·o:'.'.':i. ' -c:i·~·;c) r.iotm· cnrs and 10_rries QP_erating._ o~ garriers1 lj_cences sho~~.:j" 17.-i:_~-·()3 ---­included in these applications$ 
r:urrent ":B'" unit coupons issued for farmers' petrol requirements are, as already announced, valid only for two calendar months from the date of issue stamped on the coupons~ 
Denn Stanley Street, MD. l bank, 
s. w. l. 
12th April, 1940, 
900. 

12.4.40. 
12/4/40 -No •7. 
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN. 

Not to 	be quoted as an Air Ministry announcement. 
AIR ATTACK ON GERivIAN WARSHIP. 
An account is now available from one of our bombers taking part in the attack on enemy warships off the Norwegian coast on Tuesday, when at least one German cruiser was destroyed in the Bergen Fjord. 
The attacking formation of aircraft kept well above the clouds while crossing the North Sea. As the aircraft neared the Norwegian coast, the clouds thinned and eventually disappeared thus preventing any surprise attack. The aircraft approached Bergen in full view of the enemy. Near the Fjord two German cruisers and two destroyers were clearly visible, and within a few seconds the bombers were subjected to intense anti-aircraft fire. 
In the 	words of one bomb aimer 
"One of the cruisers was particularly antagonistic and was singled out for attack. We climbed several thousand feet, circled above the ship, and then flew away, later turning back to make the normal approach before attacking. Several bombs were dropped, one of which hit the ship with a terrific explosion. The warship emitted volumes of black smoke and ceased to fire at us. When we first reached the Fjord the cruiser was at anchor. Later, it moved about half a mile towards the main bay and then remained stationary". 
The crew of this aircraft were making their second operational flight: the first was when they took part in the raid on Sylt. The bomb aimer had come from Johannesburg to join the R.A.F.: the captain of the aircraft is a native of Melbourne•. 
1iQ1.fil: 	This refers to Press Bureau Bulletins 10/4/40 -No.8. 
and 11/4/40 -No.4. 

AIR AFFAIRS. 

EI1PIRE AIR SCHEME R~A.F. EXPERTS ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA. 
The first batch of officers and airmen from the Royal Air Force have arrived in Australia from England, and more are e~::pected soon to assist in the training of air crews under the Empire Ah'"' Schemeo They are specialists in various bPanches of service aviation} including armament 7 photography and engineering. 
The R.A, F1. instructors will be assigned to new Air Schools which have been established at various points throughout Australia and to technical schools. 
Australia has undertaken to train 50 ,ooo men under the scheme, about half of whom wilJ. be pilots 1 gunners~ i:tireless operators and observers, and the remainder ground personnelo 
To help raise the 50 9 000 men req_uj_red, travelling recruiting units have been established at country centres through­out A"ust1"alia to interview and enlist volunteers for the n oyal Australian Air Force. 
Vvorking in conjunction with recruiting sub-committees the travelling units will move about each State to the larger country tovms 1 staying long enough in each place to absox•b all eligible meno These travelling units are supplementary to the Central R. A. F. recruiting a.epots vvhich have been established in each State capital and in Newcastle, New South Wales. BLOOD TRA.NSFUSION UNIT. 
The Australian Red Cross Societv has given a mo1)ile
" "Blooa_ Bank" to the Second. A. L F. to enable transfusions to be made with great er prom;it1ess in the field than ever beforeo The "Blood 'Bank': comprises a trarlSport and refrigerating van, vvhich carrj_es· 80 bottles of stored blood> and a service vehicle providing facil·i ti.es for steri1isation, distillation of water, repair of transfusion apparatus 9 and the collection of blood from do:co...'s. 
DOMINION AND COLON If.JJ AFFAIRS 
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After many years of careful planning, the newsprint ina_ustry in Tasmania will probo.bly start production in September. 
The announcement by the Australian Newsprint Mills, Pty.Ltd. comes at a time when Australia's newsprint supplies a:tie threatened by vrnrtimc pr dductiort and shipping difficultie_s, 
American o.nd northern European softwoods have long provided the materio.l from which newsprint is made, but Australian scientists have devised n means of utilising Australia's vast forests of hardwoods for paper manufacture. Alreay in Tasmania fine papers are being made from hardwoods, and now o. process has been evolved whe1"'eby newsprint can be succassfully and economically producedo 
DOMINION AI1JL.QQ1&liJdb1'.~"Ji'P1\.1_~9. • 

PRESS NOTICE. 


1. The Admiralty give notice that the following area in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat is dangerous owing to mines: ­
(a) 	
West Limit: Longitude 5 degrees East from Dutch Territorial waters northward to latitude 56 a_egrees North~ thence to a position in Latitude 60 degree& North, Longitude 4 degrees East, 

(b) 	
North Limit: Latitude 60 degrees North to the Norwegian coast, thence South and East along the coast to Swedish territorial waterso 

(c) 
East Limit: Swedish territorial waterso 


(d) South Limit~ 

( 1) In the Kattegat Latitude 57 degrees Northo 
(2) 	In the Skagerr;ak and North Sea, the Danish and German coasts and Dutch Territorial waterso 
2. No mines will be laicl in s. channel extending ten miles on either side of a line joining the following positions: ­
( i) Ramskar Light latit-~lde 58 degrees L~6 minutes north, longitude 11 degrees 00 minutes East,, 
(ii) 	Latitude 57 degrees 30 minutes North, longitudo 7 degrees 50 minutes East" 
(iii) 	Latitude 57 degrees 30 minutes North, longitude4 degrees 38 minutes East~ 
ADMIRALTY. s.w.1 
12/4/40 No., 11 o WAR MARRIAGES IN AUSTRALI~ 
War wedding bells are ringing in Australia in the last six months. 
The Commonwealth Statistician states that in the last three months of last year, there were 2,462 more marriages than in the same period of 1938. The total number was 19,173·, More than 20% of the bridegrooms gave their occupations as "soldier"~ 
DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS~ 
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12/4/40 NOo l2o 
P R E S S N 0 T I C E 

The following is an English translation of a speeeh which was to have been delivered by M. Hambro, President of the Norwegian Storting, on the Swedish wireless yesterday, April 11~ 
"All who listen know roughly what is happening in N0 rway these days, and now that I have opportunity to send a ·greeting from the Norwegian Government it is not to expatiate on details of military operations but simply to give expression to the steadfast and united determination and trust whi~h activates Parliament and the Government. When, during the meeting held by Parliament at Hamar, the President enquired whether the parties desired, as usual, time for discussion and consideration, the reply came back that there were no longer groups or parties but a united people. 
"Never has the Norwegian Starting been more calm or more dignified than in these days, strengthened by the natural balance and the unshakable sense of national duty of the King and Crown Prince; from the moment I stepped from the train in Stockholm, where I was met by a group of my compatriots of military age whose only wish was to serve Norway, every hour has been crowded with evidence of sympathy and generosity. Offers of gifts have streame~ in. Early in the morning there came from a Swedish friend of Norway a cheque for 10,000 Crowns -£600 -as a first contribution. 
"Through the Norwegian Legation in Finland offers have come from the Danish, English and French .Ambulan~e Corps to proceed to Norway where their services may be of the greatest importance. A report, too, has come, through the legation contact with military chiefs in Norway, of the determination which fills both them and their troops. Despite all the immense difficulties -and they should in no way be underestimated ­mobilisation is proceeding. 
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With every hour greater strength and co-ordination is attained by 
the leaders of the country and throughout the Norwegian legations there is ceaseless activity. Nowhere does one see any signs of surrendering the countrye 
Until the Government succeeds in re-establishing a nation-·wide broadcasting system news from Norway and statements by the authorities will so far as is possible be sent out in Norwegian and English by the British wireless ~ only from news which comes direct from the Norwegian Government or is sent out in this way wj_J_l the Norwegian people be able to have reliable information of what has happened and what is to be doneo 
All possible help ~ill be given to the country and is already being organised on all fronts o Overwhelming streams of volunteers are rushing to report at the Norwegian legations, especially in Finland where the young veterans of the heroic Finnish defence are willing to fight once more for the liberty of peoples and national independence¢ The Norwegian people has begun its days of trial -but however long this trial lasts it will be short by comparison with the life of the people" 
However hard the individual is pressed every suffering he bears in patience is a stone in the future edifjce which these times are helping to constru0t o Most of us are faced with a period of heavy strain -what we never believed could happen has come to pass ·-we are threatened by every conceivable type of weapon. Every one of us will call to mind the words of the old Norwegi an psalm -11 .And yet my heart was not dismayed, and my soul .was faithful and steadfast in lj_fe 9 in death I know thy wa~,r, I am acquainted with both" ·
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The worst thing for so many people is to be without news of their dearest ones~ without knowledp;fl of ~--·here they are -whether the,v [-'.;re .::-.lj.ve or C.eaa.s i n.jnrec'i. or u."1.scnthed. All who wish to reach those they love Rnd are most concerned for, should t ake these wo:.."ds ci.s r. :r.>e:r.so::-i.::>.1 :;;reetin::, from huslJc:nd to v:ife, f r. ther to son -1'be of ::;ood. cheer, end confidents s:'.1..ow worth~r . be yet calm -be none of you in doubts of your nation's fate, of the success that awaits us, you are in the minds of your dearest ones ~ and in their prayers ­let your love shine through your courage and your trust ­there is much as a race which we have failed to do, much we have to learn when all this is over, but we shall have won the security we needed$ we shall have learnt successful concord from the spirit of sacrifice which has lain so long unused deep in our hearts. there is but one thought which .lies uppermost in our minds -God bless the land of our fathers, may it bloom and flourish, may it endure and be strong. The country sends greetings to one and all -a united, strong people, groping its way through darkness and distress~ trustingimplicitly in the day to come, when right shall prevail and people shall be free. 11 
PRESS BUREAU . 
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN 12/4/40. -No.1}.• 
(Not to be quoted as an Air Ministry Announcement).
R. A. F. OVER BALTIC. 
GERMAN AMMUNITION SHIP SUNK. 

Bomber command aircraft were in action over the Baltic last night and attacks were made on enemy ships over a wide area extending from Oslo Fjord in the North to the Baltic coast of Germany. 
One large vessel apparently an ammunition ship, was hit by a heavy bomb and blown up: a line of' eight to ten vessels was attacked in the narrow waters of' the great belt: a 5,000-ton supply ship .is believed to have been damaged, and bombing attacks were also made on a German Seaplane base on the Baltic coast. 
The ammunition ship 11vas one of a formation of eightgrey-painted vessels which were seen steaming at high speed through the great belt, heading north. A direct hit was registered on the ammunition ship which blew up with such force that the attacking aircraft were rocked by the force of the explosion. 
Further north, in the Baltic, another formation of enemy ships, s teaming in line ahead, was attacked and heavily bombed, but the results could not be observed in the darkness. 
A 5,000-ton supply ship intercepted off the Southern end of Langeland just before midnight, was attacked and probably damaged by two large bombs which were seen .to burst close to her stern. This attatrk was met by anti­aircraft fire from the ship or from nearby shore batteries which was ineffective. 
NOTE. this refers to Air Ministry Issu~ No.5. (12/4/40) 
AIR AFFAIRS 
TIIE , .:::en :'rLRY to the i1INI : TRY Or TP.Ju\f;_J-OR'r makes the following announcement :­
m
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FU::~.rumr of the llU:r:BIR .' y ;rDONS reported. to have died in CRCJ-\.':~ DRI'rAilf durinc; the month of :;.:arch) 1940, as a r esult of ROAD J\.CCIDl:l'IT':· , with coL1parable figures for t he corresponding 
periocl i n 19~59 o 

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-----··----------.----------,-··--------·-· :On re.·:ls c;ubject ;On ror1.ds not :to 8. s_pced limit. : subject to a Classification of ~ersons. ! s··Jeecl 1i·,·1it ,
:------____ _____------·-_L_~------~-__:___L_______ i 1939 I 1940 !1939 :1940 l 19391 1940 
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1 I i 	I i 
1
Pedestrians ( i) urnler 15 years or' age i 64 j 62 . 8 7 l 72169 
(ii) 15 years of 2..[~e and over 	125 187 38 66 I 164 253 
I-·  __2~__.l____~o_
_1  1-9--+----+­ ---­ 
All Persons  I  289 !  .'3 25  J  168  171  457 i  496  
---·-··---­--­---­-
-----------·--·
----------··J_____________ _ -------~­ l --~·  

A det ailed statement is attached showing the total figur es reported by BACH POLIC:C DL·.rRIGr during the month of }b.rch, 1940, respectively, with comparable figures for the corresponding period in 1939. 
Analysis of figures for Uarch, 1940, to shovr the fatalities during "hours of darJmess" and "other hours" respectively. 
Classification of Persons. 	I On roads s~bject 1.on roads not j to a speed lirni t . 1subject to a 
Total. 1 ST;eed limit. ·-i)--Li.ring--Turl'rig--1D~ring----,D-t--1·r-~J_-n-g-+-=-~---~-~­
During !During hours of jother hours of'Jother 
hours of 1other dar kness.1hours . darh:ne;:is~hours. 
darkness hours .
------------------------------·-----· -----______.._______,________,_____ 
Drivers 	of :c:1echanically-i:-iro1Jelled 
vehicles other -Chan l!lOtor cycles 7 4 12 9 Motor Cyclists 20 15 4-1 25 Pillion Pn.ssene;ers 1 8 9 Pedal Cyclists (i) under 15 years of age 2 10 4 4 
(ii) 	15 years of age and i l over I 43 27 38 34
l

Other 	Persons 17 
8 
29
Other 	Persons 
I 	2 I 18 6 i 11 
261
235
Al_le_

,______________ P_r_s_o_n_s_______~l__1_4_2_~1~_1_8_3_........,__9_3__L!_~ 

(ii) 15 years of age and over 122 1 65 I 53 Drivers of J,1echanically-propelled j ! 
vehicles other than i!lOtor cycles 2 I 2 ! 3 :uotor Cyclists j 3 12 
10 Pillion Passengers I 
4 Pedal Cyclists ~ ~) under 15 yearfs of age l 9
J 

(n) 	15 years of age and 1 , , over I19 I ],8 16 
19 	13 40
6~ l 9 14
6i 
i 
' 
81 l 61 45; 37 
65
4 
78
175
13 

8
5
6 
15 

13 
27 
4
5 

5 
l 
13
4 

36
25
18 
-2 

RQAD ACCIDENTS -GREAT BRTTAIN. 
Statement showing for EACH POLICE DISTRICT the 
number of persons reported to have died during 
the month of March, 1940, as a result of road 
accidents compared with the corresponding 'period 
in 19390 
---------.--------­

Police Dis tricto --·----------------­
!.~r:.g]._~_g." 
Bedfordshire 
Bedi'ord County 
Bedford 
Luto~1 

Berkshi:t'e 
3er•Jrn Count y 
Reading 

VV:Lnd~->or 
BnckinghaJnRhj_I•e 
nuc:kj_ngharn County 
Cri.<:;pyjng -:vycombe 

Camb r _L dget.fr1ii:' e 
Cambridge Count y 
Can:lJ::· id ge 
Isle of El;v 

Che3h:i__roe Checter County I)i:r.·kenhead 
c i-1es te::'.' 
Cm1gleton 
H;yrde 
Macclesfiel d 
s-calybridge 
Stockport 
Vfall asey 

Cornwall Co:c>nwall Count y Penza.nee 
Cumberl and & Westmorland Cumberland & Westmorland Ca:-•l isle Kendal 
Derbyshire Derby County Che8terfiel d 
Dc:;r-~:;y 
G1ossop 
Devon2h-~ re Devon County Bxete:::.' Pl yrnonth 'I'iveI'ton 
Dorset County 
L.~~~~~1_9_4_0~~~T._o_t_a_l_.-~-.-,.~.-1_9_3_9____ 
During 
During
I hours of 
other hourso
··-t-1 _d_a_r_k_n_e_s~.. 
1 
JI 
2 
3 
2 
1 1 
3 2 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1 
2 
5 
1 
4 
·1 
3 3 
1 
1 1 
2 
1 
3
4 
5
1 
1 
2
1 
3  
1  
2  4  
8  2  
1  
- 
6  3  
1  
2  
6  11  
5  1  
1  
1  
1  
2  1  
1  ·•- 
3  2  
·4  5  
7  5  
3  
6  2  
1  
3  4  

-· 3 .~ 

,_,......._... ...-----~­
~,....----.....~ .. ----...-...................-.~---...-------~--­
1940 
~. 

Po~~ua Di s trict. 
Total

During hou~During 
of d~~s. other hours. 
I 

Durham I 
Durham County Gatesbead  3  I I  4 1  
Har.<.; le·,~ool  1  
Sou~~:n  Sll-J. e ld.s  1  
8u.n.d·J r l a:ad  1  

ESS:j :v_~ Ee sE~ )C CJount y CoJ c.:hes·~er So1_;.t:1end..· on~· Sea  5  6 2  
Glonce [-:;tershire Gl oucast er County B .2t stol  6 5  4 2  
Ha::-ni-,shire Sontho.mpton County Ir::le o:C' Wigh·t  5  3 2  
Po~:-~ts·JCL1th Sc) 1::. ~=· ~-.1r1:1;pt0~1 Vtfj :c.~f1i:-::3Jcer  1  1  
I-le refr) i~a~  l  1  
Hortfcrd.cnire Hcr-~ford. County St,, 1-\.J...bans  ~)  0  
Hunt ingdon County  2  2  
Ken~. Kent Count;),r Ci:rnt8 r1mry Dover Poli:<:.e8tone Gravesr:rnd Maid.stone Margate Ru.rnsgate Roc:hester Tunbri dge 1N8lL;  2  9 1 1  
l1 EUlC c:tsh~" rf:l La11ea.st0r County Accri n;;t 011  8  4 1  
A2ht0n-u~Qer-Lyne Bar;Up Bar:eow··· iri~Purness BlaGklr..u.·n Black~100 1 Bol·i:;on Bootle Burnlr3y Cl:i the3:•02 I,o.ni~G.str3r Li'1erpool 11e.r1che st ;.~r  1 1 l 1 1 10  1 5 4  
() 1. \J.ha~1 Prest on  1  

7 
1 
1 1 1 
11 
2 
10 7 
8 
2 1 1 
2 
6 
4 
11 
1
-

1 
12 
1 
1 1 
1 1 
.1. 
1 
5 
14 
1 

l<J39. 
16 
2 
2 
3 
l 
11 
3 
4 
3 
2
-

1 
3 
l 
11
-

1 
.. 

16 
1 
2 
2 
1 
.... 
5 
2 
3 
~ -· -----··-----­

Police District 
---------------·--------­Lancashire (cont'd.) Rochdale Stn Helens Salford Southport Warrington Wigan 
Leicestershire Leicester County Leicester 
Lincolnshire Lincoln County Boston Grantham Grimsby Lincoln 
London 
City 
Metropolitan 

Monmouthshire Monmouth County Newport 
Norfolk Norfolk County Great Yarmouth King1 s Lynn Norwich 
Northamptonshire Northrunpton County Northampton Peterborough Liberty Peterborough 
Northumberland 
Northumberland County 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tynemouth 
Nottinghamshire Nottinghrun County Newark Nottingham 
Oxfordshi re Oxford County Oxford 
Rutland County 
-4 ­---------------------------·-··---T·--------------­
l 
f 
inuring hours Earkness. 
-

I 
I 
I I 
I 
I 
I 

I 
I 

i I 
i 
I 

I 
I I 
I 

1 
2 1 
2 
1 
1 
4 
19 
2 
2 1 
1 
1 
5 
1 
1940 
I 


During 
other hours. 

1 
2 1 1 
1 
1 1 
1 
39 
1 2 
1 
4 
1 
2 2 
4 3 
1 
1 
I 
I 
I Total, I 
I I 	2 2 
I 3 
1 
3 1 
z 
2 
5 
58 
1 
4 
1 
6 
1 1 
3 2 
5 
8 
2 
1 

"'!" 
2 2 
..,. 
6 
1 
8 
1 
1 
66 
2 2 
2 
2 
4 1 
1 3 
4 
3 
6 2 
-5 ­

·-----··---·---------.---··-· 
----------
-------------4-----­
; 

Police Districto 1
I---··--------__ _ 
!.~~2-----------­
l 
During hours l During . ~-f darkness_._lother hourse 
. 
· 

Salop 
Salop County
Shrewsbury 

Somersetshire 
Somerset County
Bath 
Bridgwater 

Stafford5hire Stafford County Newcastle-under-Lyrae Stoke-on-Trent Walsall Wolverhanrpton 
Suffolk Suffolk East County Suffolk West County Ipswich 
Surrey Surrey County Guildford Reigate 
Sussex 
' Sussex East County Sussex West County BrightonEastbourne Ha stings Hove 
Warwickshire Warwick County BirminghamCoventry Leamington 
Vliltshire Wilts County Salisbury 
Worcestershire worcester County Dudley Kidderminster Worcester 
Yorkshire East Riding County Kingston-upon-Hull 
NOrth Riding County 
Middlesbrough 
Scarborough 

-

2 
4 1 
4 
1 
1 1 
2 
2 
1 1 1 
3 
2 
1 
2 
2 
2 

! 	· 
1 l 
7 
.. 

.. 

3 
l
.. 

l 
l 1 
.. 

l
-
-
3 2 1 
l l 
3 6 1 
l 1 
1 
1 
-

!I 
---------·~ 
lJ 

l 'l1otal.fJ 1939 



t -
r----

3 ~ 
:l 

l 
-;j'. 

11 8 1 
-

7 12 
l l l 2 l l 2
I 

i 3 1 1 2
l ... 	1
j I 

i ' 3 	7 2 
• 1 
4 l 3 l 2 
1 l 1 
6 6 a 9 
1 4 
4 4 
-
3 5 .l 2
-

l 2 
.. 4 
5
-

3 4 2 3 
York 
-6 ­

--·----------·------­
.,
ii 1940 
-c--·---'-•­
Du.ring

Police District. I._ Du1"inc 
1939 hours of 
·)ther Total. 
darkness~ 
hour so 

Yorkshire (continued I West Riding County 15 
6 
21 

21 Barnsley I ",-., 
2 
B11 ad:ford i 2 

1 3 
5
I 

Dewsbury 
DoncasteI' 1 ., 2
-

Halil'ax !1 
l 
Hudde:e sfi eld 
Leeds 5 0 Ro the11 i:.a.m 
i 


1 Sheffield ! 4 I 0 
I 

6 6 


' . ,, t 8 7 
! --·
Wakef'ield 
!·-----·--~--------1 
Total, England 
I 192 


Anglesey County B1"econ County Caernarvon Com1 ty 
1 Cardigan County 
1 
Carmarthenshire 
0
Carmur then County '-' Carmarthen Den.bigh Count;y 1 Flint County ,j Glamorganshire 
11 ,,
,,
Glamorgan County d 
·I ., 
..L
Cardii'f 

Merthyr Tydfil Neath 1 
Svransea !II: 1 
Merioneth Cmrnty· ll 
ii
Montgomery County !I 3 
I· 
I
Pembroke County ! 1 
I 
I
Radnor County !1 
'.!.--------· 

1. 
' 14
" 
t_ 395~lG__ 410 
1 1
I 
I 

1 I 1
..!.. 

I 1 
1 
1 1 
1 
1 
0 
"-' 

1 
C) 
'-' 
1 
2 2
I 

1 i I 
I 
lj 
4 1 
2 
4 3 
8 2 
1 
2 
··---·---·--·----.-·--·-· i
9 I 23 +-16 
\ I I

II
i: _ L _____
___.___: . II .1 
-7 ­



















), 
1940 1939.
Police District 
Ii,, I 
During otherDuring hours 
Tot.al. of darkness. 
hours. 

l 
I
Scotland " 
-·---·­
I 
!
Aberdeenshire 
I
Aberdeen County 
1 1 3
II
Aberdeen 
2 3
1 
Angus Angus County 
1 1 I' J1 1 Arbroath 
I 
1 
1 l .1
1

Dundee 
j 
Argyll county 
I 
Ayrshire Ayr County 
3 35 

8 I
Ayr 
Kilmarnock 

l 1 .·I Banff County 
I 
I• 
' 
I
BerVJick County 
I 
I i
Bute County 
Caithness County 
I 
11 
1
Clackmannan County 
11·!
1 31
Dumfries Caunty 
Dunbartonshire Dunbarton County 
2· II 11 
1: 
Dumbarton 
' 
11
East Lothian County 
Fif'eshire F'ife County Dunfermline 
l" 
11
Kirl~caldy 
Inverness-shire 
Inverness County 

1 Inverness 
11 
Kincardine County 
Kircudbright County 
LanRrkshir e 
II
2 3 2
1
Lanark County 
Airdrie 
I 1 
1
1 18
Coatbridge 
13
14 1 
4
Glasgow 
Hm1ilton 
Motherwell & Wishaw 

ii 
II
Midlothi an 
I' 1
Midlothian County 
2 1 

3 jl 6
Edinburgh 
11 
-

. 

-8 ­
-----~-'~ --·.-,---~------...__..___ ·~-, ' ._,......_.,._,...,____.....
-----,..------_,._...___,_~--,...-..-,~~-,.....­
I 
n.,.., ·1· n· .. · t l-;;U"in-;:---·-1,l~~~ :l ..,.,-ct--­
r--v , J.,Ce l.JJ·;;T Q.0 '-'·• 1 ~-·· --.... ... (_..,. ...i._, \...rl... -J.l. .'::.> 
! h.onrs of I o·cher 
I dn·-<•r-·''<-.~• ~ I 1 .,...
I CJ,l. J~;.lv;.. i".:>"' l'lOlli aQ 
, I
'-+-..--·-,-----r----­
Moray & Nairn County Orkney County Peebles County Perthshire & Ki,n.ross 
Perth & Kin:coss Cm~ty Per th 
Renfr ewshire Renfrew County Greeno ck Paisl ey 
Ross and Cromarty County Roxburgh County SeU:.il"k County Stirling County Sunderland County West Lothian County Wigtown County Zetland 
Zetl and County Lerwick Total, S0otland Total Great Britain 
Ministry of Transport, .1.2.:th Apr:_ill.. 194,0,.;;_.__ 
1  
1  1  
2 1 1 ·4  1  

1 2  2 1  
29 235  34 261  

1ro t al. 
2 
3 
1 
1 
4 
3 
3 
.... 
63 496 
1939. 
1 
1 
2 
2 
46 457 
12th April, 1940. No. 15 
M.A;F. 191 
lvIIFI.:;,·:rHY OF .ti.GRICULTURE ANNOUI~CEM:2;KT 
MORE FOOD FHOl-1 THE I11ARM:. 
Kale For ~'linter Peed. 
Kale is of double interest to farmers at the present moment, because not only is it a crop safe to grow on ploughed up grass and one that can be sown to the end of June or even mid-July, but also it provides a valuable home produced feeding stuff from August to April. 
The Ministry of Agriculture have just published a new 11 Growmore11 leaflet on the subject, No. 27, single copies of which are obtainable free on application to 10, Whitehall Place, s.~.l. It gives details for feeding it to cattle, sheep and pigs. 
The Kale crops are heavy yielding, marrow-stem, for example, will sometimes exceed 30 tons per acre, although 15 to 20 tons are more usually obtained. Its feeding value is high, exceeding that of swedes especially in protein and mineral content. 
12/4/40 -No._16.• 


Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Russian ports on the Baltic and Arctic Seas, the Board of Trade have made an Order, which comes into force immediatel;y, prohibiting the exportation, exi:»ept under licence, of all goods from the United Kingdom to those destil1ations. All outstanding licences for exports to these destinations have been revoked. The Order does not apply to Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. 
Boord of Trade, 12th April, 1940. 
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.... _ 
1.?.4.40 No 17 
NATIONAL FOOD CAMPAIGN Appointment of Lectur;ers..etc," 4 
Jin connexion with the !tational Food Campaign, the Ministry of F0od is relyinz upon the co-operation of local Education Authorities, comme;"cial undertakings such as Gas and Electricity Companies, vVomen' s Institutes, Townswomen' s Guilds, etc., who employ their own staffs of lecturers and demonstrators. In these circumstances there is no occasion to make additional appointments to the staff of the Ministry who are, therefore, unable to consider any such a:pplications. Any vacancies which may arise in future will be filled in consultation with the Ministry of Labour and National Service. 
MI NISTRY OF FOOD 
12/4/40 No. 18. AMENDMENT OF FEEDING STUFFS (MAXIMUM PRICES) ORDER 1940. 
The Minister of Food has made an Order, which is to come into force on Monday 15th April, amending the above Order. Apart from certain minor drafting amendments, the Order substitutes a new Schedule for the First Schedule of the princi:pal Order. 
Since the principal Order was made in January, the prices of sacks and bags have receded from the ver y high level then prevailing. The prices of nearly all the home produced cereal feeding-stuffs that are sold in bags, gross weight, have consequently been reduced by 5/­per ton, and the deductions that must be made when such feeding-stuffs are sold nett weight, have been reduce·a accordingly., 
A number of additional commodities are included in the new 
Schedule. The more important are as follows: Cut or kibbled wheat £9.17.6d per ton gross,sacks included Wheat provender mixture £9. 5.0d ti
" " " 
n
Flaked or rolled wheat mixture £10. 7.6d " " " 
Barley meal and maize meal 
mixture £9, 7.6d " "

" " 
Home grown oats, crushed,rolled 
or cattle ground £13. O.Od II "

" " 
.If
H9me grown oats,Sussex ground £13.15.0d II ,
" " 
Home grown oats, clip~ed £13. 2.6. 11 (excluding sacks) 
The prices prescribed for feeding meat meal and meat and bone meal, for f eeding bone flour and for unground meat and bone (greaves) were announced on t he 24th Marcho 
The maximum price for home grown beans, viz.£10 per ton, remains unaltered and ap~lies to all such beans except:-spring field beans which are cE:.rtified by the buyer to be bought for the purpose of sowing; cluster, and tic beans, runner, climbing and dwari'French, kidney, Seville, broad and soya beans. 
As recently announced, prices for dried sugar beet delivered 
in April, May and June are the snmc as those for beet delivered in 
March. 

MINISTRY OF FOOD. 
~ . '. 

12.4.40. -No. 19. 
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED OR BROADCAST BEFORE THE MORNING OF 
13th APRIL~ 
COLONIAL SECRETARY, . BRITISH HONDURAS. 
It is announced by the Colonial Office that Mr. R.E.Turnbull, Colonial Ac'L~inistrative Service, Officer Class IV of the Malayan Civil Serviee, has been selected for appointment as Colonial Secretary, British Honduras, in succession to Mr. w. Johnston, who has been appQ~nted as Comptroller of Customs, Sierra Leone • . 
DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS 
++++++ 
The War Office, 
S.W.l. 12th Aprilj 1940. 
The following is the_latest list of German
Prisoners of War. Rank Christian Name(s) Surname Where from 
Leutnant Rudolf Gustav Adolf BEHNISCH Tillendorf 27 Oberstleutnant Hans HEFELE Utwingen 34 Unteroffizier Albert Wilhelm 
Johannes Heinrich. WEBER. Iserlohn i/Westfalen 26 Unteroffizier Alfred BAIHLE Oberkirch 27 
The following list of ENEMY DEAD is issued for p11blication. Surname Christian Particulars Place and Date Names on Identity Rank Unit of Death or of 
Disc 
Quadt Rudolf' 62750 
1 
Hartung Gustav 62750 
2. 
Hunderling · 	62750 
25. 
Finding of Body 
Olt. Air Washed ashore 
Force 	on the Northumberland coast.6.4.40. 
Fel. 	i Air Washed ashore ! I Force on the ! Northumberland 
coast.5.4,40. 
I .

Uof'f. I Air Washed ashore I Force on the 
Northumberland coast. 6.4.40. 

No. 21 
M.A.F. 192 

Arrangements have nov'i been ::na.c1e to provide a market for all the linseed which farmers grow this season. The Ministry of Food will purchase linseed which is surplus to farmers' req,uirements for stock feedingo The price to be paid for good sound seed will be the marKet price of imported linseed in this country next autumno Growers will also have the option of obtaining 10 cwt of linsee d cake fo r each ton of linsee d delivered. 
Linseed is a useful crop for sowing as late as May on newly ploughed grassland, especially because it is comparatively i mmune to damage by wireworm and rabbits. Supplies of seed suitable for sowing can be obtained t hrough merchants and practical advice about growing linseed is given in Growmore leaflet No. 13 which may be obtained free from t he 
Ministry of Agriculture and ll'isheries, 10, Vibitehall Place, London, S. ':-V. 1. 
12/4/40 -No. 22 
.·. 
...-• .­
PRESS NOTICE 
r:Rhe Minister of Supply to-day received a 
deputation to discuss questions relat.ing to the taking over of the 1940 Home wool clip. 
The deputation consisted of representatives of the National Farmers Union, Ulster Farmers Union, National Farmers Union and Chamber of Agriculture of' Scotland, Scottish Sheep Breed Societies, Highland Agricultural Society, Land and Property Federation of Scotiand and the Northern Pastoral Club. 
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MINISTRY OF SUPPLY. 
---· ____,.... 

As this script is issued in 12/4/40 -· No •.2:3 advance it should be checked by the actual broadcast,9.20 -9~35 p. m. 
NOT FOR PUBLICATION BEFORE 9.35 p.m. TODAY. 
ONCE .A WEEK 
A TALK BY 	"ONLOOKER". 
Broadcast 	in the B. B. C. Home Service at 9.20 p.m. on Friday 2 April 12th,1940. 
The great and moving events in Scandinavia during this past week have rivetted our attention. History is being made; and these momentous happenings 9 which may well be decisive in their effect upon the war and so upon the world, have occupied our minds to the exclusion of well-nigh all else. 
I 1m sure that's just how you felt; eager for every scrap of news; buying up the papers as they c~ne out; listening to the wireless; and praying that this latest treachery of Hitler should receive its swift retribution. V
ell, much still remains obscure; and undoubtedly there are great events impending. But certain 
thingB are plain for all to seeo 
Tonight will not be wasted if we reflect on some of these things. 
When the news of· the invasion of Denmark and Norway was made known, there was one instantaneous reaction. If anything had been needed to steel the resolve of the Allied peoples, Hitler had certainly supplied it. Once again was it made plain that nobody in the world is safe from the savage violence of Germany; that the pledged word of Hitler is less than nothing; and that the weak and helpless can expect no mercy. 
Think of Denmark tonighto Many of you know that little country and perhaps have happy memories of its great peace-loving people. Denmark certainly desired no more than to be a good neighbour; she had practically no army or navy; and was content to live in peace. She had accepted the offer of Germany for a non-aggression pact which was to l ast for ten years and which used the solemn words "that in no circumstances will Germany and 
2 

Denmark go to war or employ any kind of f'orce ·against each other." That was less than a year ago -and tonight the whole of Denmark is 
in German hands. Already the peaceful Danish people are feeling 
the lash of the oppressor; and already they are being treated as a 
conquered people; and all their lives made subject to German 
domination. 
And I'm sure that you felt a great oppression of spirit to think that the nakedly evil things of this world should have such power; that the bully should be able to trample upon the defenceless; and that innocent people should be thrust into such unmerited suffer­ing. For Danish people are just like you and me, loving their homes and their .~and, concerned about their children, their businesses, their jobs and the things which make up life -and now it's all gone,and they must obey a brutal conqueror in all things, and serve his purposes• 
.And what had Norway done? She had seen her ships sunk without warning when pursuing their lawful trade; she had seen her seamen murdered; and despite all her efforts to placate the powerful tyrant she had been living in perpetual fear of what Germany would do. She was too weak to protest in the only way that Germany can understand, and endured the murders, the suffering, and the loss ­and ·t:ren without warning she is invaded, her ports are seized, her capital is taken; and she is plunged into all the horrors of modern war. 
Such is the new page of German wickedness, and all the signs and portents are that there is more to follow. 
Now, it scarcely seems worth while to discuss the pretext that the German action was taken because mines were laid in Norwegian Yiraters. 
Nobody now doubts that the plans had been long and carefully laid, and that GermanyJs attitude to Scandinavia has been one long course of lying hypocrisy. But this at least is clear that the closing of the corridor through Norwegian waters was regarded by the Germans as momentous, even vitalo Not only did the Swedish iron ore pass down that route, but by reason of Norwegian neutrality Germany was able to draw supplies from the outside world as well. What the real reasons may be for the invasion of Scandinavia time will reveal; but all the experts seem to agree that Hitler has oonnnitted the gra7est strategical mistake. 
Lord Halifax said on Wednesday that the German action might be the result of some internal weakness in Germany, of which we were not wholly aware; but Mr. Churchill has said that it certai.nly doubles the efficiency of the Blockade of Germany by destroying this neutral "accursed corridor." 
Whatever the real truth may be it seems tolerably plain that the economic warfare ceaselessly carried op by the Allies, and of which the closing of this sea-rou~e was the latest example,played a great part in forcing Hitler to a decision. It may be that the food of Denmark was the great temptation. There are many signs of shortage already appearing in Germany, despite the immense efforts the Government is making. Severe rationing, rigid.control, the development of every conceivable kind of substitute, the husbanding of resources which have been accumulated, the ingen­uity displayed in cheating the blockade -all these things have not been enough to prevent the signs of shortage appearing. 
/Denrnark1 s -3 .. 
Denmark's ·butter9 bacon and eggs were sent in immense quantities to Britain every year. They will come no more during the war and Germany will have that immediate benefit. She will also have the benefit of the Danish stocks of petroleum, which is another vital German need; and it is certain that Germany will seize all the stocks of any commodity of which she is short which are in Danish hands. 
But when this immediate benefit is over, and it can last but for a short time, Germany's position may be worse than ever. 
The population of Denmark will have to be provided for; and the main Danish industries are utterly dependent on imported feeding-stuffs and fertilisers from overseas. Seventy per cent. of the maize required for pig fodder (and Denmark has three million pigs) comes from the Americas, as do the stocks of wheat and rye; and practically all the oil-seed.a for cattle-cake come from the British Empire; and fertilisers in great quantities from overseas. 
All these supplies are now instantly cut off by the operation of the blockade and the Danish dairying industry is in danger of being destroyed. Moreover, Britain paid for the dairy produce of Denmark by exporting coal, metal, rubber, textiles, and none of these things will now be sent. Germany has already enough trouble in supplying her own people with these things, but with Denmark added, the shortage will be pronounced -and will fa.11 heavily on the Danish people, and on the German people as well. 
It is this factor which leads to the belief that the invasion of Scandinavia is but the prelude to further lightning aggression elsewhere; for in this case Time is on the side of the Allies and the deadly enemy of Hitler. 
But the Blockade which works slowly but with infinite sureness, will not be relaxed, and as in the last war, despite the changed conditions, will develop into a complete stranglehold, and in conjunction with the fighting forces will as surely bringGermany to her knees. · 
And in this connection there's one point which has appeared in many of your letters which needs a little clear thinking. 
The aims of economic warfare against Germany, which is usually described as the Blockade is simply to reduce Germany's powers to fight by preventing goods of all kinds from reaching her. 
This inevitably, and of necessity, includes foodstuffs of all kinds; and gives rise to the charge made by the enemy that such conduct is waging war on women and children, rather than on the armed forces. 
The making of that charge shows some knowledge of the British people, for in the midst of war, charges of inhumanity are greatly resented. 
It is perhaps well to say, in passing, that Germany who makes this charge as part of her propaganda has been continually engag~d in a submarine campaign of indiscriminate sinkage, and reclcless and illegal sowing of murderous mines in order to stop cargoes of foodstuffs reaching this country; and boasts to her own people that Britain is blockaded and will be starved into submission. It scarcely lies in Germany's mouth to make the charge at a11: 
But in October of last year Soviet Russia added her voice to that of the enemy in protest and it is interesting now /to 
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to recall the words used then. 
Russia said: "It is known that the universally recognised Principles of international law do not permit the air bombardment of the peaceful population, women, children and aged people. On the same grounds the Soviet Government deems it not permi,ssible to de­prive the peaceful population of' foodstuffs, fuel and clothing ••••" 
This protest came before that self-s·ame Government had not only rained bombs on the peaceful population of Finland, but had deprived many of the women, children and aged people mf that land of their very homes~ 
But the falsity of the comparison is obvious at once. 
Despite every form of air-raid precaution which any Govern­ment can devise, no Government can give complete immunity to its people! If people are killed or injured they are killed or injured by enemy action. 
But the German Government, if they wanted to do so·, are perfectly well able to save their people from hunger and want. 
They have only got to direct their policy to that end and make use of the resources which they possess, and which ho Blockade can affect. Britain cannot prevent the German people being properly fed; they can't prevent the materials which should be used for food being used for munitions. 
The matter is entirely. in tho hands of the German Govern~ ment. 
That is the complete and final answer to the charge. 
In a word, the protests from both these sources are a tri­bute to the efficiency of our economic warfare: and the appeal to considerations of humanity are completely hypocritical. 
For to-day, in the matter of foodstuffs it is impossible to make any distinction between the armed forces and the civilian population. 
Whole nations with all their resources and populations are mobilised for the struggle. And nowhere more . so than in Germany. 
Field-Marshal Goering put the alternative of "Guns or Butter" as a part of German policy, deli"terately to be followed. 
Ever since the Nazi Party came to power in Germany there has been a shortage of 'fats' for human consumption. This had nothing to do with Blockade: it was due to German policy and parti­cularly the policy of Re-armament. Fats are not only human food: they are also food for guns: they are used for explosives. To allow Germany to import Lard, or Bacon, or Butter for example, would be to present her directly with food for guns, for they are so used without thought for ' the women and children. To allow Germany to import grain or potatoes, for example~ would be to present her directly with fuel for her Tanks and Aeroplanes, for they are used by Germany to make spirit for this purpose. In a word if food was not conditional contraband of war, German armaments could be most powerfully increased without hindrance as these examples show. 
And when I say that the German Government have it within their power to prevent their civilian population from suffering hunger, I am only saying what those who have made a life-study of the situation declare to be the truth. 
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In respect of Food, Germany is practically self-supporting, and 
if she devotes the food for her people to making munitions of war 
she cannot complain if Eritain stops the supplies. Listen to 
Sir William Beveridge -He says: "Every ye r=,r since Hitler ca.rne 
to Power there has been more fat in Germany: but every year since Hitler came to Power there has been for the German people less 
fat than the;y wanted, and less than they had before then. The German guns have swallowed it!"' 
And there's something perhaps more important still! 
If foodstuffs were removed from the contraband list, and the enemy was allowed to import them freely and use them for war purposes, as he undoubtedly would, this war would be enormously prolonged. 
'11.he great ambition of all right-minded people is not to prolong this war by one day beyond what is necessary. 
Every day the war lasts means loss of valuable lives ­the lives of our sold_iers, sailors, and airmen -and nobody coulcl contemplate a weakening of our economic warfare which would result in that! 
In all our pride of the last week in the wonderful achieve­ments on land and sea, high in the skies, or on the t empestuO'US wfters, there has been the saddening thought of the brave lives laid a.mvn: and to prolong the war by one day when we have a weapon in our hands to shorten it, and to throw that weapon away would be worse than folly -it would be a crime! T.his weapon of economic warfare ­universally recognised by international jurists -is being re­morselessly applied: and its greatest value for all of us is that without doubt, it brings our victory nearer. 
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(Not to be quoted as an Air Ministry Announcement) 
AIR FIGHT OVER BERGEN FJORD 
A Wireless Operator in a Coe s tal Cornraancl Aircraft continued to send messages vvi th his left hand after he had been shot through the right elbow in an air battle today (Friday). 
The aircraft, a Hudson, was on reconnaissance in a Fjord near Bergen when it met a Dornier Flying Boat. There was a short sharp fighto Several good bursts of machine-gun fire entered the Dornier which, however, escaped into the cloudso 
The Hudson was also struck in several places. After the Wireless Operator's injury had been dressed he insisted on carrying on tapping the key with his left hand. He sent messages reporting the fight and the result of the reconnaissance to his baseo 
The air-gunner in the rear tu~ret had a narrow escape. He had fired several bursts vvhen a defe-ct developed in one of his gunso He bent down to remedy ito As he did so, a stream of bullets struck the turret -exactly where his head had been a second beforeo The only damage was a shattered panel. 
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12/4/40. -No. 25. 
FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE (EVENING) 
Paris, Friday, A~ril 129 1940. 
The following official communique was issued this evening from French General Headquarters : ­
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY BETWEEN THE VOSGES AND THE RHINE. 
AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN. )-2!'.4/40 -No. 2~. 
R.A. F. RA.ID OJ-NAZIS AT S'I'AVANGER. 
(Not to be quoted as an Air Ministry announcement). 
In an audacious bombing raid ~y British aircraft last (Thursday) night, considerable damage was done to the air fields at Stavanger in Norway. Numerous German fight er and bomber aeroplanes were wrecked by machine gun fir~ , and many of the staff and aircraft personnel were lc".lledo 
The raid was carried out by Wellington bombers of the CJastal Command, accompanied by long-range fighters. 
The fighters arrived at Stavanger first, dived upon the aerodrome, t aking the enemy by surprise . They sprayed the air field, aircraft and hangars with bullets before the anti-aircraft defences could be brought into action, 
Between them, they seriously damaged t hr ee Junkers bombers and, it is estimated, killed or injured +,wenty of the personnel in this initial attack upon the aerodromeo The moment the attack finished and the British aircraft began to climb for a further offensive, intense machine-gun and anti-aircraft fire broke out. They escaped damage ·. 
Half an hour l ater the Wellington bombers arrived. Approaching from the East, they swept down on Stavanger in another surprise attack, dropping heavy bombs . 
Immediately, the bombers were met by int ense but inaccurate, anti-aircraft fire o Despite this they returned to the attack, machine-gunning enemy machine--gun posts, anti-aircraft batteries, hangars, and aircraft on the ground,. 
Considerable damage was done and a great fire started. By this time many German fighter aircraft had reached the ReG~O from neighbouring aerodromes and they attacked the ra iders as they were about to return, their nask completed, 
A fierce battle was waged, but only one of the British aircraft failed to return to its base" 

This refers to Air Ministry Bulletin Issue No.3 of t oday (12/4/40) 
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AIR MINISTRY .BULLETIN 12/4/40 No.27 
(Not to be quoted as an Air Ministry Anno'l.ll1cement) _ 
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GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP BOMBED 
The German Supply Ship which was successfully bombed by the .R. A._ F. in Danish waters last (Thursday) night was first detected by the-light of a parachute flare dropped by the attacking aircraft. 
"The night was pitch dark", said the Captain of one of the British aircraft, describing his experiences today, "a.nd at first there appeared to be very little traffic in the target area. Then 'vVe spo:t;~·ed a faint, small light bobbing on the dark surface . of the water. It seemed worth investigation, so coming down low, we turned ·sharply towards it and released a parachute flare. The dazzling light made the sea almost as bright as day, and below us we saw about ten grey coloured ships steaming north in company at about ten knots. 
"Flaming onions and anti-aircraft fire came sailing up at us as we manoeuvred into position, and, with our target clearly illuminated by the slowly descending flares,we launched our attack. · We drorrL"ied several bombs in quick succession, and it was the ·last to go that found the target. There was an almighty explosion, as if an arnmunition store had been blown up or a boiler exploded. We were jerked about thi:??ty feet upwards by the force of the explosion, and our tail gunner, when he had recovered his balance, reported that sparks of fire could be seen shooting out from the ship." 
The Captain of this aircraft, a Squadron Leader who has been in the R.A.F. since he was seventeen and a half, was also the pilot of the. first aircraft to bomb Sylt during the recent raid on that island. 
. _His second pilot last night, a young New Zealander and ·former wool-buyer, also has a previous exploit to his credit, having been a member of the crew 11vho, last i.Novembei• , brought their bomber safely home across the North Sea after the greater part of the covering of one wing had been stripped off over Germany. 
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(R.A.F. over Baltic) 
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12/4/40• -,,No,.; 28. 
FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PRESS. 
The Prime Minister of Sweden, Mr. P.A. Hansson, broadcasting from Motala to-night said :­
"We have tried to be neutral from the beginning and will cont fnue so but we are our own judges in the matter of neutrality. No foreign country can make use of us. So far no demands have been received and should they be they will be rejected. We must remain .calm~ The Government has complete control and is aware of its responsibility". 
After appealing for unity the Prime Minister said:­
"If war comes to our country we will fight to preserve our liberty. " 
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AIR MINISTRY BULLETIN, 

The Air Ministry announces:­
Extensive reconnaissances by aircraft of the Royal Air Force have been carried out over the North Sea and Skagerrak to-day in search of enemy naval forces. Reports so far received indicate that one formation of bombers penetrated into Kristiansand Fjord and attacked two German warships. Our aircraft encountered heavy anti-aircraft and fighter opposition and in the course of the engagement five of them were brought down. The full extent of the enemy's losses is not known but at least two enemy fighters were shot down in flames and others were seen to be seriously damaged., 
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THIS EVENING MR. BJARNE BRAATOY BROADCAST IN THE GERMAN NEWS BULLETIN. THE FOLLOWING TRANSLATION IS FOR THE INFORMATION 
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£.ITUATION IN NORWAY o 
by BJARNE BRAATOY. 
Have peo;ple in Germany really no idea of what is hnp}!eninrr. 5.n the 
~' c.r :Forth in the n..-:ime of the Germ:3.n people? Will they really allow it 
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o ha1;pen that peace-lovinc !)eople who have never at any time done any­
thing against the German people 7 who, on the contrary, have only met 
Germans with friendship and understanding, should be hunted from house 
t nd home, should be forced to take up arms in order to defend the most 
,_: l ementary right of a free people, the rtght to set..tle its own affairs 
without interference from outside? 

Imagine what things look like now in Oslo. That peaceful capital 
with a population of only 200,000 lies on the Oslo fjord, surrounded by
wooded mountains, peaceful and unimposing, but nevertheless the home of 
aspiritual heritaGe which in the past centuries has given something to 
the German people also. From there numberless Germans have started 
off on their wanderings through Norwayt and through Oslo have made their 
way home again. There 1 and elsewhere in Norway, they have found people
who unc.erstood German and were glad to shew their ancient ..~J.\fordic 
hospitality., 

And how these Norwegians have been paid back~ The armed protectionof the German troops is, for us Northerrn an insult. At the first threat of armed interference we had to evacuate Oslo~ Old and peace­loving people have had to leave everything and go awayo Children were fetched from school and sent away t ooo Everything happened in an c~derly way. We Norwegians are also capable of organisation but without having to receive commP.ndsc The same happene.a in all threatened towns. And why? Because the ermans, under Nazi rule, have won such arep.tt.ation throughout the world that not even the aonciousness of our milit8ry inferiority to a great Power 9 such as the erman Reich, could 
1ake peaceful subjection appear to us the better fate,, Better to flee 
J.o the woods and mountains, and from there to resist as best we can. 
That's what we've doneo Without any consulation with any,foreign 
Power our Government turned do·,;m the incredible demands of the tlerman 
Minister out of handrttedemand to hand over Norway to the miscalled 

.r .nJJotective rule" of the Third Reich, Our Parliament unanimously 
1. ollowed the lead of the Governrnento Our people have everywhere 
approved the policy of our Goverrunenta While we have the means we are 
fighting, not without success o We shall go on fighting. And we shall 
~ot stop fighting, even if the Germans should win, which won't happen. 
Our people can't be reduced to serfs o 

By their invasion the Nazi rulers have taken on themselves even 
~11ore than the / hopeless attempt to tame Norwegians tn the Nazi manner. 
Because of this invasion the whole world has woken up and become aware 
of the full danger of the situationo Do people in German really not 
realise that in recent years the whole world, above all the American 
world, has turned its eyes on the social development in the far North?. 
In recent years not only German tourists but travellers and students 
from all over the world have become familiar with the progress which 
has been made in the Nordic countries J:a-r.ticularly since the world 
economic crisis. Everywhere people kno-;r from personal observation that 
this progress has been achieved by met b.oc3/3 of freedomo 

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It is no "Diktat" imposed from above or from outside which has brought about the building developments of the Oslo of today. The townspebple themselves took a part in the work . through their democratic right to vote and through their elected representatives. The fishing boats of the new fishing co-operatives of the Norwegian coastal waters are called after our Prime Minister, because he and his Government collaborated in the development of the up-to-date organisation which built these boats. .· The fishermen say11Look at mv new Nygaardsvold'!, because our ~rime Minister's name is Nygaardsvold. 
He and his Government need no armed police force to protect them, nor any system of spying. Under this Government everyone is perfectly free to say and do what they like, even to travel abroad if they want. The Norwegians are free in every sense of the word, and, incidentally, a far reaching equalisation of the ownership of property has been brought about. The Norwegians are also free to make the decision tho.t they would rather suffer than submit to the enforced domination of a foreign Power. This background to the attitude of the Norwegians to the German invader is known throughout the world. But perhaps it is not known to the Germans. Perhaps it is not known inside Germo.ny thci.t Germany is making war against the Norwegians. Perhaps it is not known inside Germany that German soldiers, and detachments of the German Air Force and Fleets have forced ~heir way into Norwegian ~orts and used armed 
violence against us peaceful men and women. Perhaps it is not known inside Germany tho.t Ger mo.n troops, have been harrying Norwegians on their own soil, starting from Oslo, and that our Government has had to retire from Oslo to Hamar, from Hamar to Elverum, and from Elverum to Nybergsund in the deepest forests of Norway, -thct our King is up at the Front, but that this Front is on Norwegian soil, where the German troops, who are fighting there, have got absolutely no business whatever. I ask the German women. What business have your sons, your husbands, and your friends up there? Why should they die there? Because you must no think that a fight with us is going to be carried on without any losses on your side. On the contro.ry, you may be quite sure already that the great ma jority of your young men are never going to see their homes againu Don't you believe what they tell you at home. The positions up there nre as good as lost for Germanyo 
But it isn't enough that people should begin to grasp this inside Germanyo They've got t o wake up nt long last nlso to this fact, thGt a whole world is turning against Germ~ny, and not only against the Nazi rulers, who 2re swelling so big in their own deceased imaginations. In the l ast resort the responsibility weighs down on the German people, if the German people does not begin to shake off this barbRrian gang. 
I am speaking here not at all about the military results.1 t•s not first and f oremost a question of power politics. It's a question above all of the hurnc..n ties between peoples when this dark struggle is finally overo How, then, will the outside world regnrd the Germnn people? How will £my sort of collabor1:1tion be possible unless forces ar e r evcnl ed in the Germnn 1)801Jlc which ap°!'.)eal to other nations in o. quite differ ent way f;orri-that in which Germany under its present mnsters docs. 
The question which I~ 8.s o. Norwegian, have the right and the duty to put to you in this: Do you wm1t to return to the way of reo.l humanity, or do you wrmt to shut yourselvos completely off from human society? 
BRITISH BRO.l..DCJ\STING QQBJ:QJ,_AJ)_QN, 
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No.31. 
Df\NISH SHIPDING. 
FOR THE INFOPA!SION OF THE PRESS. NOT TO BE QUOTED AS AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT BUT IT Mi\Y BE REFERRED TO AS COMING FROM AN 11 AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE' . 
Owing to the German invasion of Denmark, Danish ships are now technically of enemy character, and if they are to continue in service at all they can only do so under an Allied flag.· 
They will be formally seized and put into prize after which they will be requisitioned and used for the benefit of the Allies. 
This seizure, although in form similar to the seizure of German ships, will affect both the owners and the crews in quite a different manner. The masters and crews will be welcomed and invited to serve, if the'.y wish to do so, under the British or French flag. If they do so, they will not, of course, be treated as enemies. 
So far as owners are concerned compensation will in due course be arranged for tho use of the ships although it will be necessary to arr8nge the terms so that no benefit can pass to German control during the war • 
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Naturally no details about this can yet be announced. 
It will thus b~ seen that it is to the benefit of all parties interested in these ships thnt they ~hould come into Allied possession., for the al ternntive is that they take shelter in neutral ports, where they must remain immobilised for the remainder of the war. 
MINISTRY OF SHIPPING. 
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