The Archive · 1940

Spread of War on Big Scale Predicted

Balkans May Be Another Major Theatre

Montreal, Apr, 9.

Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, former naval attache to the British Embassy in Paris, last night predicted that yesterday's developments in Norway would mean the spread of war "on a tremendous scale; Admiral Kelly said he hoped that within just a few days, Russia and Germany would speedily proclaim an open military alliance in order to clarify the issues for which the Allies are fighting.

Sir Howard further predicted that south-eastern Europe would be an active theatre of war over the flow of oil to Germany.—United Press,

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