NAZIS HAVE CAUSE FOR FEAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 140, 10 March 1941, Page 7

NAZIS HAVE CAUSE FOR FEAR

Long Vulnerable Coast

i British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 7. "The Times” describes the Lofoten raid as a quick and vivid stroke and a perfect specimen of its kind. The "Daily Telegraph” and the “Manchester Guardian” find the true measure of the importance of an efficiently executed operation in the excitement it caused in Berlin. The “Guardian” says: “The Nazis sent us the news first, saying that we had done something which was militarily senseless, and then went on to make far more excited' comment than anything so negligible an operation justified. Germany revealed her true estimate of the Lofoten adventure, and her real fears, when in a wireless tirade she said that the British were seeking to impress remote and ignorant peoples. The raid has obviously brought home to Germany the vast extent of coast she has to defend.” The same point was taken up by the “Daily Express.” “What happened on the coast of Norway can happen anywhere along the 3000 miles of European coastline which Germany seized last year,” it says. “And everywhere we choose to go we shall be welcomed by the inhabitants, because we come to manhandle the Nazis.”

One Swedish newspaper, writing today, says: “One swallow does not make a summer, but one swallow is always the first. The English force which made the descent on Lofoten seemed to be a flock of early swallows. We wonder if the ‘quislings’ have a little creeping feeling.” It is now known in London that a second important oil plant was put out of action.

It is reported from Stockholm that the first result of the raid is a widespread increase in loyalist activities.