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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1940.
“DAMN POOR SHOTS, THESE JERRIES”
SCOTTIE TELLS OF ADVENTURES IN NORWAY
London, To-day.
“THEY ARE DAMN POOR SHOTS, these Jerries..
they are not the same Germans as in the last war, ‚,” said a Sapper, a Scotsman, who was a member of the expeditionary force to Norway and who landed in Britain on Monday, in a broad- cast from Daventry.
They landed at Aandalsnes on a quiet, moonlit night, he began, and the next morning went to Dombaas by train. "Jerry" bombed the whole They railway and set all the wagons on fire. went on to Otta, "a nice wee village" same 30 or 40 miles down the Gudbrands Valley.
Then, getting into the civilian lor-1 ries, the Sappers went up to the front line to make craters in the road and thus hold up German tanks. Part of into the the section was then put front line.
"Some were a bit shaky at first, bucked but 1, as an old soldier,
were all them up a bit until we ready to bayonet Jerry if he came over the top," he went on. They were behind a wall and the only way the Germans could get at The Ger- them was to bomb them. mans, however, stayed away and fired at them from a distance with machine- in, they If they had come guns. would have wiped the whole party out that day.
But they were poor shots and con- tented themselves with setting the woods on village and surrounding fire.
BLOWING UP BRIDGES
to Otta The Sappers went back and prepared the bridges for blow- ing up. They worked all night, and the next morning the section further back, leaving our and a lance-corporal to guard bridge.
went Scotsman
over
ROOSEVELT FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
Washington, To-day. Diplomatie quarters here ex- pect" an "Important announcement from President Roosevelt on for. eign polley when he welcomes on Friday night the delegates from 21 American republics to the Eighth American Scientific Con. gress. Havas.
trolley fell off the rails!
They later got a train to take them to Dombaas.
"I must say one thing about the Germans," he went on. "They are
not the same Germans as in the last war. They won't come close to you. the They just keep potting at you from
a distance.
and German 'planes came bombed for hours, dropping from 400 to 500 bombs.
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"They didn't kill so much
"The only thing cat," he went on. they did was to set trees on fire."
seventeen detonators -There were
Scotsman on the bridge, and our would have liked to delay.blowing it on it. up until the Germans were But everything was worked out to a schedule and this was not possible; the troops were to come over at 9.30 to be o'clock and the bridge was blown up at 9.45 exactly. CAUGHT UP
"They are poor fighters and dirty ones!"
he Explaining the latter remark, said he saw 20 Norwegian Red Cross and machine- ambulances bombed
the gunned by German 'planes on road between Dombaas and Aandals-
nes.
German 'planes also bombed them at Aandalsnes until two "naval sloops came in and shot one down. They then left us in peace to get on board that night."Reuter,
ARTILLERY IN ACTION ON WESTERN FRONT
Paris, To-day. Last night's French war communi-
Reuter que said there were artillery actions the west of the Vosges.
At 10.10 they left the scene. Trudg- ing along the railway, they found a hand-trolley and with its help caught up with the main body. They almost got shot by their own men as they came up, but were saved when
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