Papers in Buenos Aires accept the mining of Norwegian waters as a violation inevitable in war, and stress the increasing effectiveness of the Allied blockade.
"Nacion" justifies the British action owing to Norwegian inability to: force rights, and points out that Scandinavia is for the Allies in sentiment.
The London correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia" reports surprise at Germany's action considering Norway's hostile attitude to the Allies, following the laying of mines, unless it was a precautional measure against Allied intervention.
The correspondent states that this was indeed the Allied plan in order to close Germany's gateway for supplies. He adds that Government circles declare Britain had respected the laws of neutrality to the extreme, in the hope that Norway could impede Germany's violations. But owing to the vanity of these hopes, it was necessary to act.
In a leading article, the "Osservatore Romano" (Vatican) declares: "It is dificult to find a direct casual connection between the events of yesterday and today, which are so different both in proportion and la the factors involved. Those who have defended against one and all the sacred rights of the neutrals can-mot but envisage with anguish this unexpected and dramatic extension of the theatre of war."
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