The Archive · 1940

Scotland Yard Moves

London, May 3.

Scotland Yard terday began drive against the "Fifth Column by serving summonses against certain members of the Peace Pledge Union, which has been adyosating immediate peace. summonses were served in London and neighbouring cities, including the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge where pacifists were reported to be active.—United Press.

London, May 3 With German troops massed in Denmark and along her southeastern frontier, her Baltic remaining exposed, and the poss bility, though remote, of a Soviet attack in the north, Sweden is at present threatened from three sides, political circles here stated today.

These circles stressed that the Swedish Government has taken energetic measures, both of a political and military nature, for the prote tion of the country. The Swedish army, which has been reinforced, consists "how of 200,000 well-trame and well-equipped men. The Nav is as powerful as any other in the Baltic, the coastal batteries are first-rate, while the air force consists of from 400 to 500 planes.

Any German attack against Sweden, it was added, would see the Alli operate a junction with the Swer army by means of the railway line leading from Narvik to the Swedish l AFAYETTE

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