WHERE NEXT?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 94, 23 April 1940, Page 5

WHERE NEXT?

| BLOW BY HITLER I THE DANGER TO NEUTRALS (By TcDwaph Pre-. A.-Mnci.ii ion Copy r «ht) LONDON, April 21. The Sunday newspapers are much preoccuinod with the degree to which the growing menace to neutrals or n Germany governed by Nazi doctrines is being realised by those States exposed to Nazi aggression which have so far escaped actual violence. There is a feeling that recent events must serve to bring home in many quarters the warnings which British statesmen have repeatedly given neutrals that until Nazi lawlessncx- l.us been beaten there is no security for any Slate. Despatches from newspupciW own correspondents in neutral capitals indicate that in nearly every cu.se vigorous measures are being taken or planned against the N:/.i levnnique of penetration which has been so strikingly illustrated by the events in Denmark and Norway. The Sunday Yimes writes: “Ever since April 9, when Germany suddenly invaded, without provocation, two neutral States, overwhelming one and seizing the capital of the other, all the rest of the European neutral have seen where they stand. With the temporary exceptions of Russia and Italy they know they may be in imminent danger. They know, too, that its source is Germany alone. Even Russia and Italy alth for the lime being they feel safe anti although Germany is pressing them to beconi ■ her partners in a new crime us Russia has already been in a crime against Poland—must be aware Die. their security would be gone if Germany wore finally victorious. “In Holland a state of sitgO been proclaimed over the entire country. In Yugoslavia Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, so long and lecen'.iy lhe pro-Nazi Prime Minister, has been interned. Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, Rumania, and Turkey have alike taken safeguarding measures, “There is a widespread feeling that •whatever happens in Norway Herr Adolf Hitler is likely soon io strike elsewhere—in one event to exploit hL success and in the other to divert attention from his failure. Incandescent laca van be seen brimming on the iip of the volcano. Men ask only in which direction it will overflow.” Contract in Turkey. Istanbul (Turkey) reports that an agreement has been reached w.th British firms for the construction of a naval dockyard in the Gblacn Horn costing £2,000,000. It will he finished in 1942. The Bucharest oiiicial gjw-Hte slate, .that no armed merchantmen are perj milted to enter the Rumanian stretch of the Danube and must deposit arms at Sulina and Bazjas.