British aviators returning from the seventh Royal Air Force raid on the German alr base at Stavanger, Norway, in six days reported last' night that' heavy damage had been inflicted during the latest raid.
Waves of RAP, bombers were said to have roared over the new German base for an hour, dropping tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs by moonlight.. 'The skies over the German aerodrome blazed from two large fires set by the British bombs, the pilots reported. German planes' were set afire on the ground, and runways were pitted with bomd raters, and the air control tower and other buildings were set afire, British airmen reported.
'AIL British planes returned from the raid safely despite a ring of steel thrown round the German acrodrome anti-aircraft. batteries, "The Al Ministry here released photographs of earlier British raids on Stavanger. The photos showed 'a dozen German seaplanes anchored in the calm inlet.
Neither Britain.nor Canada would nieve Into Greenland or Iceland un-Tess It seemed certain that Germany was about to seize them, declared the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, at a press conference yesterday following conversations with State Do-partment officials.
Greenland, the Ambassador said, might make 'a good air'base for Germany, but they could never maintain it. "We could give. them. a-knockout blow there very easily." Lord Lothi expressed the belief that Greenland clearly came within the Monroe Doctrine, being within the Western Hemisphere.
He predicted that the navicert system might be extended to the Pacific prevent supplies from the Amer-Jean Pacific coast reaching Germany via Russia, When the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, was asked at a press conference whether the United States would extend a protectorate over Greenland, he said he knew of no plan to do so, He cited the Presits recent description of Greenland Tand of the Western Hemisphere, thereby implying that Greenland comes within the scope of the Monroe Doetrine—Reuter.
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