Evening star., 1940-04-08

which they acknowledged were mot
lawful in ordinary circumstances -
the allies declared that illegal Ger
man practices gave them the right
to take counter measures.
They cited German submarine
and airplane attacks on neutral and
British shipping, calling them pure
terrorism and defiance of recog-
nized rules of war;
World opinion,"- the statement
declared, will recognize the "neces-
sity'' of action.
1t said the number of neutral
ships destroyed by German action
is now we'll over $50 and the number
! of neutral lives lost is nearly 1000.
These attacks, the allies charged
frequently were without the slight
est justification" against vessels on
voyages between neutral ports and
were marked by "the greatest
barbarity.''
'Indiscriminate" Campaign Charged.
The statement elaborated on what
it said obviously was the German
government "indiscriminate CAM
palgn of destruction throughout
waters in which their unnotified
mines are laid, or in which their
submarines are in position to oper-
ate," and served this notice:
whatever may be the actual pol
icy which the Norwegian govern
ment, by German threats and pres
sure, are compelled to follow, the
allied governments can no longer
afford to acquiesce in the present
state of affairs by which Germany
obtains from Norway facilities which
place the allies at dangerous dis
advantage.
They have. therefore, already
given notice to the Norwegian gov
ernment that they reserve the right
to take such measures as they may
think necessary to hinder or pre-
vent Germany from obtaining in
Norway, resources or facilities which
for the purpose of war, would be to
her advantage or to the disadvan-
tage of the allies"
The British added to their record
of alleged German brutality" the
sinking of the 2,l18-ton Norwegian
collier Navarro off Northern Scot
land Saturday.
They charged that the Germans
had promised to refrain from at
tacking ships carrying coal from
Britain to Norway-as the Navarro
was doing-and that the German
submarine whose torpedo sent he,
to the bottom stayed in the vicinity
80 minutes without helping when
one lifeboat capsized.
The Navarro sank within a few
minutes. Three officers and nine
members of her crew were killed
The Finnish vessel Atlas picked ur
Ia survivors.
Called From Retirement.
Coincident with her widening
efforts at sea, Britain called Vice
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake out o1
retirement to become lord commits.
sioner of the Admiralty and assistant
chief of the naval staff. Sir Geoffrey
was gunnery commander of the bat
tleship Iron Duke in the World Wal
and has filled varied important nava
positions.
Copies of "secret map" purport'
ing to show a 1O-year Nazi plan tt
conquer Europe have been ISSUED
by the British Ministry of Informa'
ton.
The ministry said the original was
found by Czech police in 1888 raic
on the Prague headquarters OF Kon'
rad Henlein, Fuehrer of the Sudeter
Germans who were united with Ger
many through the Munich pact.
The ministry declared the mar
showed that German leaders in 1893
planned to take Austria and Czecho'
Slovakia the next year and to ado
; progressively to their conquests un'
til before 1948 Hitlers hordes o
Dragging gangsters would have seize,
Scandinavia and Portugal and als'
Great Britain.