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Heavy Fighting To South Of Dombaas GERMAN PUSH IN
OESTERDAL MERCURY HALTED
PRESS OUTRAGE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Shanghai, To-day.
A spectacular terrorist at- tempt was carried out at about 5.05 this morning in the American-owned Mer-
London, To-day.
GERMANS
LANDING 3,000 A DAY
Stockholm, To-day.
The newspapers' estimate, that 8,000. German troops are being 'transported dally to Norway from Danish bases. They are report- ed to travel by air and sea, and land mainly in the Oslo area. Special small vessels are stated to be used for sea transport.—Reu- ter.
AT THE MOMENT, THE GERMAN "push" north- ward from Oslo in an attempt to relieve Trond- heim is meeting with better success in the Gud- brandsdal valley than in the Oesterdalen valley, although up to yesterday events were moving STEAMER more swiftly in the latter valley.
cury Press printing plant, in the Gudbrandsdal valley, Allied troops south of SUNK IN
publishers of the well-known English-language newspaper "Evening Post and Mer- cury" and of three vernacu- lar papers known for their pro-Chungking sentiment the "Ta Mei Pao," "The Mei Wan Pao" and "Ta Mei Chu Pao."
Pao” and “Ta Mei Chu Pao."
Four armed gangsters who had posed as newsboys for a month, ap- peared at the back entrance.
Two talked with а policeman whlie two others entered the plant and threw three grenades, two of which exploded and · Injured' three pressmen. No material dam- ́age was done.
While escaping, the men fired shots within the plant, and two others simultaneously shot a Chinese police man on duty.
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Dombaas are being heavily engaged by strong COLLISION enemy detachments supported by medium artil- lery, armoured fighting vehicles and aircraft. Some Allied withdrawals have been necessary.
These same Allied advance troops 30 miles south of Roeros, in the face were under heavy pressure at Lille- of unexpected Norwegian resistance. hammer, and it is also these troops which, as first revealed in the Nor- wegian communique, received support from R.A.F. fighter machines.
- In-the---Osterdalen valley, the Germans are now unofficially report- ed to have withdrawn a little way. On Thursday, they were sald to have made a rapid drive which re- sulted in the capture, of the town of Roeros.
Yesterday, however, frontierre- poris stated that the Nazi detachments were so harried by Norwegian and Allied snipers in the hills that they were unable to fortify the town and had to retreat to the south.-Reuter.
Enemy Attacks Halted
London, To-day.
A Russian policeman discharged full sub-machine-gun clip of 25 bullets at the escaping car, which had been stolen two hours earlier from a A Norwegian army communiqué taxi station. The gangsters were possibly hit.
The escaping car ran over and kill ed a Chinese civilian, while the bandita escaped.—Havas.
ON THE WESTERN FRONT:
Paris, To-day,
Last night's French communique said there was marked activity of artillery on both sides and of contact units.
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The enemy carried out a raid on one of our outposts which, after sharp fight, remained finally in our hands. Reuter
SOVIET TO BUILD NEW URALS PIPE LINE
second to Ichin
states: Our troops in eastern Norway on Thursday halted enemy attacks at | Gulsvik, in Hallingdal, between Etne- dal and southern Aurdal, and at Kvam, in Gudbrandsdal.
The enemy's attack was supported by artillery, tanks and planes. Brl- tish troops destroyed two German tanks.
In Oesterdal, motorised and mechan- ised troops continued to advance to wards Kvikre and Roeros.
** Gorman planes continued to bamb
communication,"lines" "behind.
'our.
front. One German plane was shot down...
In western Norway German troops are pushing towards. Voss from Ulvik
and Eide, in Hardanger, and from the
Voss was shell
west-along the railway from Bergen. artillery German planes. --
and bombed
Reuter
Germans Retreat 30 Mile
secured this news from the Norwegian The correspondent claims to have
military command. He says the Nazi retreat began at 9 p.m. on Thursday night. Reuter.
No Steinkjer Action
London, To-day.
A 5,000-ton Panama steam- er sank yesterday off Dunge
with ness following a collision
the Dutch steamer Midsland (1,089 tons).
The name of the Panama steamer is given as Bobby, but it is believed the original name, which is not avail- able, was recently changed.
She sank in about eight minutes and It is officially announced that al-all 28 members of the though patrols are active north of rescued by the Midsland and later landed on the south-east coast by motor-boat-Reuter.
London, To-day.
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