THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1940
Picture taken over the aerodrome at Stavanger, shows one of the recent attacks by the Royal Air Force. Blobs on the airfields (right) are of bombs ex- Taken it from a height of 4,000ft., shows bombs dropping. ploding within a few feet of an enemy aircraft, and on the extremity of the runaway. In the same picture three JU 52, transport aircraft appear, to be damaged, the whole of the aerodrome is pitted with bomb cra- British Official Photograph (Crown Copy- ters from this and other R.A.F. ralds and naval bombardments. right Reserved).
ALLIED WAR MACHINE WORKING SMOOTHLY
London, To-day.
THE ALLIED WAR MACHINE IS working smoothly and efficiently along the front north of Trondheim, says Reuter's Special Correspondent with the Allied forces there.
Already, many thousands of British and French troops have safely disembarked at Namsos and moved up silently to points of action around Steinkjer. "I am officially informed that the Allies were forced to abandon Steinkjer itself last week because the town was completely gutted by German incendiary bombs, but strong British, French and Norwegian units are now in position north of the town," he cables.
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The correspondent, who reached the The correspondent also tells of see- north Trondheim region after a most jing a low-flying Nazi bomber bomb- hazardous 36-hour journey from the ing a railway station and Swedish frontier by a horse-drawn gunning a British detachment. sledge over the mountains and frozen lakes of Central Norway, tells the story of the capture of a crew of three from a German bomber which was forced to land on Lake Imming- hem.
The men were taken into custody by three Norwegian peasants and a Cus- toms official, to whom the Germans politely surrendered while concealed peasants covered the airmen rifles.
Confident, Cheerful
All British and French troops he encountered were well-armed and well-equipped, confident and cheer- ful. Many of the French Alpine troops were on skis.
Wiart in the British Headquarters es- |tablished in a little Norwegian vil-
SNATCHER GAOLED
Mrs. Hansen, of Hillwood Road, was
the victim of a snatcher yesterday in
Middle Road. Before Mr. Himsworth this morning. Wong Tak, 21, was sen- tenced to four months' hard labour and eight strokes for the offence.
Ng Yau, 24, who chased and arrest- ed the snatcher, was awarded $5 from the Poor Box.
ARMED GUARDS
ON RUMANIAN OIL WELLS
Paris, To-day.
According to a Bucharest des- patch, armed. guards at the Ru- manian oll-wells have been In- creased and ordered to fire on any stranger, unable to give a satio. factory account of himself.
From to-night, the Bucharest aerodrome will be guarded by troops. Reuter.
MORE LANDINGS IN NORWAY
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Paris, To-day.
The development of Allied air activity in Norway and better co-ordination of oper- ations there, were discussed at the last Supreme War Council meeting, according to authoritative quarters.
Latest information reveals that new landings of Allied troops are assum- ing increased momentum, while the main Allied landing base at Andalsnes, south of Trondheim, is being streng- thened and will soon become immune from air attacks.
it is expecting that a single com- mander will be appointed to co-ordin- ate the Norwegian, British and French forces.-Havas.
PRINCESS JULIANA TO BROADCAST
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Amsterdam, To-day. Princess Juliana is to give a special radio address to-day to listeners. in the Dutch West Indies at 1 p.m. (Netherlands time.)-Havas,
MERCHANT SEAMEN TELL OF ESCAPE FROM NARVIK
London, To-day.
FORTY-SEVEN BRITISH seamen, who recently es- caped som the Nazi forces which occupied Nar- vik, arrived at Newcastle yesterday.
He interviewed General Carton De Thirty-two of them were from the Newcastle steam- er, "North Cornwall," of 4,340 tons, which was captured by the Germans the day before the first naval battle at Narvik.
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The General said that the position was now much better, as the men were settling down' and were happy in their new environment.
Reinforcements were arriving in good numbers.
AMBULANCE UNITS FOR NORWAY
London, To-day. The British Ambulance Unit which Air Attacks Reduced was in Finland is now on its way to The German air attacks had great-join the North-Western Expeditionary ly diminished since the Allled anti-Force in Norway. It consists of 20 am- aircraft defences and fighter planes bulances and 60 doctors,--Reuter. had come into action In the war
zone.
There had been no raid on Namsos M. COSME IN SHANGHAI Itself for four days, although, on one occasion German 'planes came over on.
Shanghai, To-day.
a reconnaissance flight at a great M. Henri Cosme, French Ambas- height
sador to China, arrived here yester- day afternoon, He was welcomed by: all the French civil and military lead- ers of the French ConcessionsQur Own Correspondent.
General Carton De Wiart said that German bombers had already been brought down by British fighters near Namsos-Reuter""
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Seven were from the "Blythmoor," 6,582 tons, and eight from the steamer "Mersington Court," 5,141 tons;
The men of the "North Cornwall," in an interview, said they had been kept prisoners in a whaling ship, the Jan Wellum;" but when the first battle of Narvik started they were put ashore under guard.
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They escaped" and, after Walking 28 miles through the snow for 17 hours, they came to a village where they were greatly surprise to find “about 180 - men from the flotilla
leador, "H.M.8: Hardy, and aʼnumber: of men from rothoë mbrohant ships. The seamen were accommodated "in- a schoolroom until after the second at: Narvik, when they naval ba signalled to British destroyers and 1- were taken off-Reuter.