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German Army At Elverum Repulsed NAZIS FACING DISASTER
NORWAY TO FIGHT WITH ALLIES
Stockholm, To-day. M. Hambro, Speaker of the Norwegian Parlia- ment, said here that King Haakon is issuing a proclamation to-day stating the intention of Norway to fight side by side with the Allies and not capitulate to Ger- many.
Reuter.
GERMAN LANDING PARTIES NOT LARGE
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With regard to the position in Norway, it seems probable that the German landing parties are not very heavy concentrations.
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London, To-day.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT Mr. Winston Churchill
vers his speech in the House of Commons.
FOUR NAZI
will be able to give very good news when he deli-CRUISERS Confirmation is gradually reaching London of im- SUNK IN
portant naval engagements off the Norwegian SKAGERRAK
German Disaster
coast, where the British Fleet has captured Ber- gen and Trondheim, and scattered German troop transports and inflicted severe losses on the German navy. Although the full story is not likely to be related for some days, the picture grad- ually being assembled of the dramatic events of the last 48 hours suggests that Hitler's "blitzkrieg" against Norway is in grave danger of collapse. During yesterday's bombing attacks on German naval craft In Bergen, It was revealed that two German crui-
ed In the port. - The Britlah
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The British naval and air attacks on German transports and warshipu occurred when the latter were trying to pass through the Skagerrak along the Norwegian coast to reinforce the landing parties.
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concentration The enemy scattered. In the Skagerrak, two German German transports and destroyer being sunk. Near Paternoster Island,
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Stockholm, To-day. According to unconfirmed reports four German crui- sers and two or three large transports, were sunk by the British Fleet in the battle in the Skagerrak.
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Two German transports, filled with to have been port of soldiers, are stated escorted into the Swedish Marstrand by a Swedish cruiser.
badly One of the transports was
entered damaged, and the other
waters. The Swedish territorial transports and the troops on board will be interned.-Reuter.
south-east
winds,
East and -moderate; cloudy generally with mist or fog, probably some rain.
sers and two destroyers were anchor-warships met 10 German troop trans-WEATHER FORECAST:
ports protected by warships, Two capture presumably German transports were sunk."
(Continued. on Page 20.) that these four ships have bean. sunk or captured
The Nazis are now facing a difficult
task-either to continue the attempts to send troops directly from Denmark to Norway through the straits, under
the guns of the British Fleet, or to try
and land in Sweden, where the neces The method adopted seems to have sary precautionary measures have now been to disembark a boat-load when-been taken. ever possible.
At one or two places, notably Oslo, troops were
alsó landed from aero- planes.
Such forces as the Germans. have landed have been strengthened by the transfer of the German merchantship. crews. into fighting crews-in. most cases, this merely involved a change of uniforms...
It is also thought probable that there have been reinforcements from the brigades of tourists, as occurred in the case of Danzig.-Havas.
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It is further pointed out that the scope of the operations In Norway would render the last solution prac- tically useless, even if it succeeded, 48 the Malmo-Goateburg railway could not cope with traffic sufficient to help the Germand maintain. their own against the Allied forces.
It is rumoured in Stockholm that the Allied Fleet has secured control of
the Oslo Fjord and has demanded the surrender of the German forces ashore
by noon to-day. No confirmation of this startling, report is available in London or Paris:
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