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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1940
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ALLIES ON NARVIK
Germans Shelled From Land And Sea NO PEACE
Paris, To-day.
BEFORE
THE RE-GROUPING OF BRITISH, French and Nor- VICTORY
wegian forces in Norway continues to evolve without incident, according to authoritative military circles here.
The situation at Narvik is gradually being clarified as Allied troops progressively enter into contact with the German forces.
Yesterday, for the first time, Ger- man aircraft intervened in the fight- ing, bombing a village to the north of the town.
Latest information available here indicates that the German forces at Narvik do not greatly exceed three thousand men, of which 1,000 are occupying Tunnela and the bridges on the railway to Sweden, while the other two thousand are in separate groups, holding out around the town of Narvik with their backs to the
sea.
Their positions yesterday were bom- barded by land artillery and naval guns. Reuter.
Nazis Raid Kirkenes
Stockholm, To-day.
DESTROYING BOOKS FOR PAPER?
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London, To-day. Any peace before the mili- tary powers of the Nazis is would be defeat, smashed
said Mr. J. Jagger, M.P., the Trade Union leader, in speech yesterday.
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EFFORT TO BREAK NAZI CORDON
Stockholm, To-day.
The Norwegian troops in the Roeros sector are report- ed to be planning to break through the fast-closing Ger- man cordon and join the Allied troops in Northern Norway.
An official statement that
fighting
north has
would continue in the partly dissipated the bitter disappoint-
ment at the orders to retire in this sector following the Allied withdrawal, states the Norwegian Telegraph Agency.
"We are fighting for the our very existence,' " he said. "Either the mili-
Norwegian General Headquarters tary power of the Nazis must behave now been established in the broken or we shall be broken by it.
North and Norwegian mobilisation re- "Every vote given to a 'Stop the mains in force, War' Resolution is another signature on Liberty's death warrant.”
In this hour, when all we believe in. is in deadly peril, he appealed to all to vote against such resolutions with such a large majority "that the Fas- cists, Communists and pseudo-pacifists will realise their insignificance."--Reu-
BERNE, TO-DAY. THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ANTI-GER-ter. MAN BOOKS IN CZECHO-8LOVA- KIA IS MUCH WIDER THAN AT FIRST BELIEVED AND WORKS IN NO WAY CONNECTED WITH POLI. TICS ARE INCLUDED AMONG THOSE CONFISCATED BY THE
NAZI8.
Explanation apparently is that the Germans have found a new way of remedying the extreme scarcity
of paper which is re-processed to obtain
Heavy fighting was reported pro- ceeding yesterday around Narvik The Allied forces are said to be bom-clean paper. barding the German positions both by land and sea amid a snowstorm.
The Norwegian Telegraph Agency states that a big German bomber flew over Kirkenes on Saturday and drop- ped bombs without doing much dam- age or causing any loss of life.
It is suggested that the machine was primarily engaged in reconnoitering to discover whether any Allied forces\ from Namsos had been transferred to the Kirkenes region-Reuter.
Nazis Enter Roeros
Stockholm, To-day. According to a communique issued by the Norwegian Telegraph Agency; German troops entered Roeros after the town was bombed from the air for the first time early yesterday.
A German plane dropped high explosive bombs, hitting two houses, and then opened machine- gun fire on the population who fled towards the suburbs.
No lives were lost. Norwegian soldiers had been Roeros for some days.-Reuter.
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Résistance At Os. (SPECIAL” TO “CHINA MAIL"
Stockholm, To-day. Norwegian resistance in the Os sector has been so strong that the Germans have had to rush both artil- lery and flame-throwers into action.
Havas.
It is also learned that activity on the Slovakian railroads has completely transported to Germany.-Havas. stopped and all cars requisitioned and
TOUR OF INSPECTION
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STOCKHOLM, TO-DAY.
· A PARTY OF ITALIAN AND SPANISH NEWSMEN LANDED AT OSLO AIRPORT YESTERDAY AND WERE GREETED BY THE NAZI COMMISSAR FOR NORWAY, HERR
TERBOVEN,
Herr Terboven promised the journ-
alists, who were invited to make the trips by Dr. Goebbels, that he would conduct them on a tour of occupied Norway.
TIRED OF "COURAGE"
The Norwegian positions Bouth of Roeros were Intact when the cease fire order was given. During the latest operations about three- hundred German soldiers were driven back by 120 Norwegians.
The Germans have 35 killed and wounded while the Norwegian losses were only five.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, of the Transport
GUERILLA OPERATIONS Workers' Union said: We are tired of hearing how one small ship went out
Henceforth only guerilla warfare and tackled overwhelming odds and can be expected from the Norwegian how two fighters went into combat forces in Southern Norway, although
the Norwegian forces with ten raiding bombers.
in the Gau "It is all very well for our country's | Valley have decided to fight on and men to have courage but what we all German efforts to take, the Nor- wanted was equality of weapons, wegian positions there have failed.
South-East of Stoeren, a German detachment was defeated, leaving hundred dead.-Reuter,
Mr. W. Lawther, of the Miners' Fe deration said: "We have no room for those dismal pessimists who sec in every fresh phase of our struggle room for doubting the triumph of the cause we have undertaken."-British Wire- less.
ARRESTS IN AMSTERDAM
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Amsterdam, To-day. Several hundred foreign- ers, most of whom were later released, were taken to police headquarters after raids on their residences yesterday.
The twenty-one Nazis and Com- munists arrested two days ago have been interned in a special camp.
He asserted that extensive changes being carried out throughout the coun- The internment camp at the Hook try, notably to make Norwegian indus- of Holland, occupied mostly by Ger- try complementary to that of the man Jewish refugees who entered the Reich.-Havas, ·
country illegally, has be transferr- ed.
HEGRE SURRENDER CLAIMED BY NAZIS
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Amsterdam, To-day.
The Norwegian fortress of Hegre,
SWITZERLAND CUTS GERMANS OUT
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Berne, To-day.
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A special law course for German students has been suspended. An in- vestigation in the living-quarters of the allen students is said to have re- sulted in a number of arrests being made. Havas,
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AT NARVIK
announces the Berlin radio.
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tion of the surrender.-Ha
should move.—Reuter,
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