PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎45r] (89/715)

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COPY OP TELEGRAM Prom Secretary of State
to Director General of Information, Home
Department, Government of India, NooK/1981,
dated 25t2 /26th Aprils 1940.
Addressed by Secretary of State for India to
Government of India and repeated to H,M.'s
Minister at Kabul, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain,
Governor of Burma, Defence Department, No,K/249
and, by Government of India, to Katmandu,
Following from Ministry of Information for your guidance
in Publicity.
Begins . Aims of German invasion of Norway and Denmark
apparently were to secure economic resources, to obtain
advanced naval and air bases for attacks on Britain and British
shipping and to control iron ore route via Narvik., Swift
Allied action has partly frustrated first of these aims, largely
frustrated second and entirely frustrated third. As regards
tactics of invasion, Germans undoubtedly hoped by surprise
attack to secure sufficient control of whole coast to prevent
Allied landings, secondly to command the internal lines of
communication, and thirdly to take up positions on the Swedish
frontier and thus be able to paralyse Sweden by simultaneous
pressure by land and sea 0 These objectives they have failed to
attain. One result has been to make certain that Sweden will
resist any attack,,
Neutral and unofficial reports of Norwegian fighting
should be treated with great reserve. Since enemy is unaware
of exact nature of Allied forces, dispositions and movements,
official bulletins cannot tell whole story. Substantial and
well-equipped Allied forces have been landed, have made contact
with Norwegian forces north of Oslo, and occupy valuable
strategic positions from which it would have been difficult to
dislodge Germans if action had been delayed, but consolidation
of these positions and advance against main German forces
cannot be accomplished at once. Local conditions of weather
and terrain inevitably hamper progress and immediate results
are not to be expected, nor can success be unqualified. Undue
optimism should be discouraged. It is not yet possible to say
what part air power will play in the operations. The Germans
undoubtedly have the local advantage in this arm, as their
first landings secured them control of Norway’s few principal