DESPERATE PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 88, 13 April 1940, Page 9

DESPERATE PLAN.

NEW NAZI ATTACK? Smash At Belgium And Holland Thought Possible. ADDRESS BY BRITISH M.P. (Received 8.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 12. Diseussing the recent events in Norway and Denmark, Mr. L. S. Amery (Lon., Sparkbrook, Birmingham), in a Broadcast, said the unprovoked and treacherous attack on two small neutral lowers by the Nazis was dictated by more than a desire to continue using the -Norwegian coast for transporting iron ore.

It was, I imagine," he said, "first and foremost in order to control the whole of the eastern coast of the North »-ea for the purpose of air and submarine attacks upon this country and shipping."

He pointed out that the possession of aerodromes at Bergen and Stavanger would bring German bombers some 200 miles nearer Scapa Flow and Northern Scotland, and at the sam<s time, the use of northern Norwegian ports would give the German commerce raiders an open on to the North Atlantic.

He suggested that an attack upon Scandinavia might be only a part of an even more ambitious and desperate scheme, and might be followed up at uny moment by an attempt to smash through Holland and Belgium to secure control of their coasts as well.