Copenhagen, Oct. 24.
Thomsoe harbour officials today b: telephone confirmed that the Ameri can merchantman City of Flint on Saturday was in charge of a German prize crew and lay outside the harbour from four to six hours. After the halt, a ship from the Norwegian naval base at Tromsoe escorted it to the three-mile limit.
They said that prize ships were allowed to remain for 24 hours outside neutral harbours.
The City of Flint, they added, flew a German flag. English members of the crew rowed ashore in the City of Flint's lifeboats, they said.
Norwegian warships stood by but po American members of the crew were seen, they said.—United Press. prehension over a Japanese invasion was the "most ridiculous proposition ever advanced." The United States would need a three-to-one naval preponderance over Japan to launch a successful attack against the Japanese 5n their waters, Senator Clark said. Tapan, he added, would need a similar preponderance to attack the United States in American waters. Neither condition is possible under the present conditions of national finance and construction, he said.
Senator Lee, on behalf of the Administration, declared that the calculations of Senator Clark were based on World War naval experience. The oceans "are much narrower and less impassible barriers now that plane development has been accelerated and communications and transportation facilities have made the oceans minimum defence barriers."—United
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