NEUTRAL STATES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 10

NEUTRAL STATES

ASSURANCES GIVEN

(Received September 4. 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. New York raports that the Oslo Got*respondent of the Associated Press of America says that King Haakon proclaimed Norway's absolute neutrality. The correspondent of the same agency in Helsinki (Finland) says that President Kyosti Kallio issued the following decree: ''During the war that has - arisen . between Germany '.and Poland, Finland will observe complete neutrality." . A Helsinki message says that M. Erkko, the Finnish Foreign Minister, stated that all northern countries united in their determination to preserve neutrality. A message from Oslo stated that Ger« many has informed Norway that she will in no circumstances infringe he* inviolability and integrity, but naturally expects absolute* neutrality from Norway and no toleration of any breach by a third Power. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain re» ports that Denmark has officially announced that she Will maintain hep neutrality. The Finnish Minister has advised the State Department at Washington that Finland has declared her strict' neutrality. The Budapest" radio announced that Yugoslavia, Hungary^ Bulgaria, and Rumania are attempting to form a neutral bloc. The correspondent of the American United Press at Madrid states that, anxious to remain neutral. General Franco has appealed by radio to European Powers to prevent the war spreadi ing to other nations.