London, Apr. 11. British Ministers from the Balkans Stockholm, Apr. 10.
Soviet circles are apparently shocked by the German occupation of Narvik, of which they were not informed beforehand, the Swedish press reports in the first information—still vague—on Moscow's stand regarding scandinavian events.
The Kremlin, report the Swedish journalists, considers Norway, or at least the northern part of it, as lying within her own zone of interest, although she probably was momentarily satisfied by her spoils from the Finnish war, and had no intention of advancing further northwestward or the time being.
A number of papers have pointed ut as significant the unusu] length of the conversation yesterday between Jerman Ambassador to Moscow Von Schulenburg and Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. The conference lasted four hours.
Meanwhile, another ominous note was struck by reports from the. "Aftonbladet" that despite the Soviet decision to remain neutral, heavy-concentrations of troops have been observed on the Finnish border, while the Soviet fleet in the Arctic is ready for action.—Havas.
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