Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-03
BY the Associated Press.

oc1tAAlN, July S.-AlleReQ Allied
Twin the war" plans for creating
widespread new battle fronts against
Germany--purportedly in entan-
Cling Scandinavia, Rumania, Tur-
key, Greece and Yugoslavia in the
european struggle-were published
today by DNB, the official German
news agency.
DNB asserted Allied documents
seized by Hitler's conquering Ger
man armies In France constituted
THE greatest of sensations .
Intrigue such as the world never vet
has seem"
One Of the documents, DNB said
was signed by Generalissimo Maui
rice Gamelin, former Allied COM
mander In chief, dated last March
l6, just three weeks before Germany
marched into Denmark and Norway
The five documents published to-
day, a spokesman said, are only the
first In a series TO be released in an
official Nazi foreign Office white book
which will be the sixth of the war
A second group, to be published
tomorrow, deals with asserted Allied
Vaccinations to involve Turkey.
A third group, the spokesman said,
concerns Allied preparations for the
Flanders campaign.
Plans Are Exposed.
The Gamelin document, as quoted
by DNB, was entitled Conduct of
War" and called for action described
as Wear and Tear of German
forces - in order to strike percep-
tible if not decisive blows against
Germany"
DNB further quoted Gen. Game
lin:
AT the moment, it appears very
difficult to achieve good results on
land outside the unoccupied areas.
Therefore, Germany must be forced
to come out Of its present waiting
position"
Among other plans, DNB said, the
various documents called for "cut-
ting off or destroying Swedish ore
mines, and destroying Rumanian oil
wells and Soviet oil wells at Baku-
Batum."
The first document disclosed was
an alleged telegram from Generals
simo Maxine Weygand, then COM
mander of the Allied Near East
army to Gen. Gamelin.
Dated March 7, 1910, 1t said Air
Marshal Mitchell, commander of the
air force for the Middle East. arrived
at Beirut, Lebanon. that day and
informed him he had received word
from London, lin regard to prepara-
tons for the possible bombardment
of Baku and Batum."
Gen. Weygand. according to the
telegram, said Mitchell was seeking
permission to investigate interme-
date landing fields for planes which
would have their main base in AL
Jazira in the Levant states. Gen.
Weygand said the investigation was
carried out by British and French
officers dressed in civilian clothes.
This would give the impression
that the visit concerned work affect
ing exploitation of oil fields in this
region, Gen. Weygand said, accord
ing to the DNB account.
strictly Secret" Telegram.
Another document was a telegram
of March IA, purportedly from
French Ambassador Massigli in
Ankara, Turkey, to the French For
eign Once and labeled strictly
secret" regarding a conversation
with the Turkish Foreign Minister.
This document was labelled No. 4.
DNB quoted:
I'm the course of visit which I
made yesterday, the Foreign Min
lister laid before me on his own initi-
alive telegram which arrived dur
ing the night in which the Turkish
representative in Moscow reported
a conversation with the Ambassador
of the United States.
According to the view of the
latter, the Russians are so anxious
about the danger of fire and bonn
bardment in the oil region of Baku
that the Soviet Russian manage
ment has asked American engineers
whether and how fire caused by
bombardment could be fought with
success.
The engineers are supposed to
have answered that, as a result of
the manner in which the oil fields
have been exploited, the earth there
Is so saturated with oil that fire
would spread Immediately to the
entire neighboring region; it would
be months before 1t could be ex-
tinguished and years before work
could be resumed again"
Plans for Finland.
Document No. 2, as cited by DNB,
was entitled plan by Gamelin for
by a French British
force in operations in Finland. The
document indicated material sup
port of the Films had been agreed
upon by the Allies and the first ship
ments made December 20, 1899.
The French high command studied
the question of to what extent
French forces could be employed for
this purpose. Comdr. Ganeval left
France December 20. 1899, to discuss
the problem with Baron Manner
helm, Finnish supreme commander.
He returned January 20, 1910.
The DNB account said the French
high command had been working on
"a general plan or armed inter-
vention in Finland" since January
Is, 1910. AS outlined, there was to
be Decentralization of Allied troops
at Petsamo, in Arctic Finland.
"At the same time" it said, thar.
bors and airports on the Norwegian
west coast were to be brought as
a precaution into Allied hands," with
operations possibly extending into
Sweden with the occupation of the
ore mines of Gallivare.
Telegram From Gamelin.
Document three in the DNB list
was telegram from Gamelin to
Gen. Wiegand March IL, 1910, in