THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1940.
GermanAttacksBreak Down Against An Energetic Defence
LONDON, TO-DAY:
THE POSITION IN THE GUDBRANDS VALLEY RE RIBBENTROP
MAINS UNCHANGED, STATES A WAR COM PROPAGANDA
MUNIQUES ISSUED YESTERDAY EVENING. HEAVY GERMAN AIR ATTACKS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT ON ANDALSNES AND MOLDE, WHILE THERE HAS BEEN PATROL. ACTIVITY. | BENTROP'S SPEECH, THE NEWS- IN THE NAMSOS SECTOR. THERE IS NOTHING FURTHER TO REPORT FROM NARVIK.
This communique confirms messages from Stock-
TOKYO, TO-DAY, COMMENTING ON VON RIB-
PAPER. "ASAHI SHIMBUN” SAYS THAT IT WAS OBVIOUSLY IN- TENDED FOR INTERNAL CON- SUMPTION ONLY. .
The increasing distress of the Ger-
on, compels the German. authorities to strengthen the people's fighting spirit. Unceasing propaganda is necessary to persuade. them that Germany
were responsible for it.
is
It is from this angle that Ribben. trop's statement must be considered.
holm suggesting that the Germans have made man wartime economy, the paper goes no progress in the past 24 hours. These re- ports indicate that in the Gudbrands Valley the German forces are facing strong Allied posi-winning the war and that the Allies tions near Otta, some miles south of Dombaas. In the Oester Valley, reports agree that the Ger--Reuter.
mans have occupied Roeros but are being held up several miles beyond it by the destruction of a bridge by the Norwegians. Sóme reports state that the Ger- mans have attempted to get motor- cycle units across with the use rubber. bands which the soldiers can drag across the bridge.
of
Further progress north of Roeros would bring the Germans to Storen, which is south of Trondheim and marks the junction of the railways from the Gudbrands and Oster val- leys. Both Storen and Dombaas are in Allied hands and the Allies also said to have taken positions along the line between the two towns.
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The ability to hold the line will be of great importance if reports of the latest German moves are con- firmed; these reports say that the Germans have sent parties out from two points in the Oster Valley to the cross the mountains and cut line.
EMPIRE AIR SCHEME
The
British
air
Toronto, To-day. Commonwealth have evaded Allied mines and sub-training plan came into operation yes- Kattegat--but not terday with the entrance into the num- marines in the
ber one training school near here of without loss.
169 aviation recruits.
**An Admiralty communique yesterday.
In the long low buildings of what more German reported that three supply ships had been torpedoed and was once a famous club the Canadians sunk while on their way to Norway, began a month's work preliminary to while unofficial Swedish reports tell undergoing specialised training as pi- of the loss of a 3,000-ton ship, beliey-lots, gunners and observers.-Reuter. ed to have hit a mine between Danish island of Zealand Swedish coast.-Reuter.
the and the
Fighting Spreads
Stockholm, To-day.
The Germans pushing across moun. talnous country south of Trondholm have been hotly engaged by the AllI. ed forces at two new points, according to latest despatches.
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FRENCH HOLIDAY
The office of the French Consulate will be closed to the general public. on Thursday, May 2, the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord.
of troops is being sent to Trondheim by air.
Allied reinforcements south of Fighting is reported from Hjerkin, Trondheim are still being bombed by on the railway north of Dombaas, German aircraft but A.A. guns are now forcing the raiders to an altitude VAGUE REPORTS
and Kvikne, north-east of Hjerkin. There is one quite good motor road Checked by British troops on their of 9,000 feet, so they are no longer. which would bring them out not far direct line of advance up the Gud-free to attack as they would like.- south of Storen, although it is pro-brands Valley, the Germans sent two Reuter. bably under heavy snow drifts.
Other reports speak of Nazi detech- ments cutting across country south of Dombaas, Hjerkin being mentioned. talk of Reports, still very vague, engagements with Allied troops near there.
The salient feature is that the Nazi main advance up the two main val- leys is being held up for the present, while north of Trondheim both the Germans and the Allies are reinfors- ing their defence positions just north of Steinkjer.
The vital question for both sides Is that of the arrival of reinforce. ments.
motorised detachments along the only
| two possible roads from the Oester
Valley with the aim of cutting the OFF THE RECORD railway behind the British. positions.. The first of these roads runs the Foll Valley to Hjerkin, which is held by Allled troops who have been reinforced to meet the German move,
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At the same time the Norwegians are resisting the Germans at Kvikne, which is on the second road.:
ATTACKS: BROKEN. Details of the fighting at both points is lacking but a big-scalé encounter is expected.
In the Gudbrands Valley itself the German attacks around Kvan, sup- ported by planes and artillery, are stated to have been broken against the energetic British defence.
Sunday's War Office communique stated that the Allies had landed more troops at Andalones despite air at tacks, and Stockholm reports state The British are reported to be hold- that these reinforcements are arriving excellent defensive positions cen- Ing ever more quickly.
GERMAN LOSSES AT SEA)
tring on a bottleneck in the valley.
GERMAN AIR ACTIVITY
been Roeros
The Germans have also landed more Many German planes have
Oslo, reinforcements at
Stockholm seen flying north over the messages state. These reinforcements | district, indicating a continuous stream
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