NEW NAVAL BATTLE
Nazi Warships Engagad
Off Trondheim
STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reu- ter)-A battle between British and German warships is report. ed to be in progress off Trond. helm.
British aeroplanes are also re- ported to have attacked German warships and aireraft in Trond- holm Fjord this evening.
An earlier report stated that German warships there were belleved to be bottled up by British naval forces.
British Troops Landing STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter)~~- According to Information reaching Uddevalle from Ilvaler Islands and other placis in outer Oslo Ford, Belilah vessels have been observed at several points along the coast др- parently landing troops.
Holland Excited
AMSTERDAM, Apr. 11 (Reuler). -It is reported here that the great naval battles off the Norwegian coast have created high excitement in Hol- land. The general impression in that the. Allies nre winning notable
successes.
There is widespread relief over the action of the British Navy. One Dutchman remarked to Reuter that
"Britain 1 Inderd energetically fulfilling her role of champion of the Smul
neutrals."
This feeling is reflected in the strength of sterling which rose 20 points on the foreign exchange market from yesterday's rate of 0.54 gulden.
The news that Britain has taken steps to buy extra quanthics of Dutch dulty produce has d to an increase In the price of butter and eggs.
Ghurka Survivors Landed LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter).-— Survivors of the destroyer, Churka, were landed at a Scottish town 03
Friday..
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
RECAPTURED BY NORWEGIANS
The Norwegian College of Technology at Trondhoim. Trondheim has boon recaptured by the Norwegian forces, aided by British Marines.
ENEMY BOTTLED: CAN'T ESCAPE, SAYS CHURCHILL
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, APRIL 11 (UP).—THE BATTLE entertained by the inhabitants to-day, OF SKAGGERAK IS STILL RAGING, DECLARED their guns until the water was level MR. WINSTON Churchill in thE HOUSE with the deck.
OF COMMONS TO-DAY.
They stated that they kept Bring
Seventy German prisoners We
also landed under guard.
Ostend Reports
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPHY
BRUSSELS, Apr. 12 (UP)-Re ports from Ostend state that frequent explosions are being heard of the north-west coast, Indfeating that battle is in progress, presumably between warships and airplanes.
Two violent explosions were heard
thought
ing mines, but erarches for debris or curvivors have proved fruitless.
Repressive Measures
Nazis Make Position Falt In Denmark
April 12, 1940.
NEUTRALS WARNED
M.P. Points To Losson Of Scandinavia LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter). After Mr. Churchill's speech In the House of Commons to-day the Rt. Hon. A. V. Alexander spoke on behalf of the Labour Opposition.
He warned the people to beware of' rumours and. said it was much better to hear the truth when it became available.
We are entitled, he continued, to sny to the neutrals in the danger zone what had been uttered by a Turkish source this morning, that, events this week prove even more conclusively that there are only two choices before them.
Elther they must make up their minds to accept Germun domination, which might be permanent, or march with the Allies.
Profoundly Reassuring
The Rt. Hon. Sir A. H. M. Sinclair declared that Mr. Church's state- ment was grave and measured and on account of those qualities it was pro- foundly reassuring.
To-day, he said, we diel well to rejoice and were not alone in re- foicing at the castigation which the German aggressors are receiving at the hands of the Royal Navy and Air Force.
He paid tribute to the Norwegian defence and added that it remained for the British Government to see that effective help was sent to them In time.
He did not believe that the people realised how tremendous WAS the task ahead and thought it was of no service to the people or to the com- LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter).mon cause to minimise the effect of -Reports from Denmark fo-Germany's latest step. dicate that the unhappy popula- repressive
Only A Feint ? tion is being subject to further He would say: "don't prophesy, measures by the Keep a firm grip on realities. Tell Nazis.
the people the truth and however hard it
will only stliTen their determination to see this thing through to the end.""
The Danish people are not allowed to buy more than four days' supply food. All private cars must be oir he road by 7 p.m. and oil-burning trains have been put out of service.
All Danish newspapers have ceased
Some 6,000 A.R.P. Wardens have been mobilised to enforce the black-
HE PROMISED THE HOUSE THAT THE ALLIES WILL BLAST THE GERMAN WARSHIPS FROM THE SEA AND WILL ESTABLISH CON-publication. TROL OF NORWAY.
Mr. Churchill revealed that the battle off Norway had already resulted in “great losses for off Nieuport. It was at first tout Germany", and he declared that Hitler has made
a "great strategical and political error.'
The First Lord of the Admiralty told a thrilled House that Allied naval and air forces are "fighting night and day" against the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia.
Another Nazi Claim
BERLIN, Apr. 12 (UP)-DNB two bombs on a British cruiser dur
claims that German planes dropped;
Ing an attack in the North Sea.
He also warned neutral Powers to beware of
Questions On further Nazi blows.
Tientsin
And The Same Old Answers
LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter)
the House of Commons, to-day, Sir A. N. Stewart Sundeman asked how much longer the present state of affairs wan to be tolerated at Tien-
Lain where the Ja
Japanese blockade of the British Concession had lasted nearly nine months, where
the re-
sklents were Hving in a state of virtual internment, their businesses
troved and they themselves ex- to humiliation and insult.
AT THE SAME TINE HE PREDICTED THAT ALL THE GERMAN WARSHIPS IN THE SKAGGERAK AND KATTEGAT WILL BE SUNK.
Mr. Churchill disclosed that the destroyer Glow Worm was sunk while engaging superior enemy forces, and that a bomb struck H.M.S. Rodney, but caused little damage.
The destroyer Gurkha was also sunk by a German air bomb, while a German U-boat fell victim to the British destroyer Zulu.
"Yesterday a very determined at-
out
Boomerang Effect Restrictions on private cars and the stopping of off-burning trains cannot Improve Germany's oil position be cause Deminark has to import so much
to keep things going last year that
We could not rule out the possibi- lity, he said, that the attack on Norway was only u feint and when our, attention was distracted there a Germau blow would fall elsewhere.
America Impressed WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 (Reuter). Brondensts of Mr. Winston Churchill's speech have impressed Amer.cans. The Iranic enume:ation of British losses have created an ex- cellent impression.
From his restrained description of she used 70,000 tons of all,
the naval action in Scandinavia, the The Allied blockade will of course nublic infers that events have de stop further shipments, so that what-veloped favourably for the Allies and ever oil Denmark now gets will have that Hifive has fonde to come from Germany.
strategic error in invading Norway, Germany, therefore, has actually skened her all position by invading Denmark and Norway.
Soviet Connivanco MOSCOW, Apr. 11 (Reuter)- Russia has fully connived at Ger- many's brutal invasion of Denmark and Norway.
This conclusion is to be drawn from broadcast by Radio Moscow of a
lengthy, article appearing in the the Central Executive Committee of
paper. "Izvestia," the oflleial argon of
The U.S.S.R.
The article, which is pro-German, leaves Russia where she was before, showing that she has no more dis- position than before to run any risks
German interests.
1 serious
Canada Cheered OTTAWA, Apr. 11 (Reuter).--Mr. Churchill's speech has thrilled and cheered Canadians, and it la felt to have grently cleared up the situation.
Germans Are
Anxious
Goebbels Has Hard Time Explaining BERLIN, Apr. 11 (Reuter)- The German public is growing Greenland And Iceland increasingly anxious about what . He also revealed that II.M.S.
OTTAWA, Apr. 12 (Reuter)--Mr.is going on now, and is being fed Renown was engaged in a duel RAF, whose Bying in every direc-mier, stated that the Canadian Gov- Goebbels and his propaganda tack was made by two waves of Mackenzie King, the Canadian Pre- with comforting stories by Dr. with two German battle cruisers, tion for reconnaissance, attack and enment was in communication with both of which were badly protection of the Navy has been un-Dritain over the situation in Green-
ministry.
but damaged, which finally ceasing, and to whom on behalf of land and leeland.
their naval comrades i tender my He anticipated communications on escaped owing to the heavy senso sincere expression of recogni- the subject with the United States. and difficult visibility.
To Establish "Order" In replying to another question by The British Admiralty 1309 now
12 BERLIN, Apr. 12 (Reuter) --The Sir A. N. Stewart Sandeman, Mr. issued a statement declaring that aligach attacked two German cruisers "New Danish Government" has been Butler stated that from representa- but 14 of the Gurkha's, crew have in Bergen Fjord which were cover-convened, according to D.N.B., the
made the Japanese Government been saved.
Ing German troops that had been official Nozl news agency, and has landed there. One of the cruisers issued a notice saying that it has de-
of the German occupation of Den- mark..
in replying, Mr. R. A. Butler sald that conversations un settlement of all matters arising out of the Tien- tsin situation were proceeding active ly in Tokyo.
tions
Watching Closely
tion two waves of the R.A.F. ol
As usual there are discrepancies. While the "Voelkischer Beobachter" headilnes the story that the British and French fleet are smashed, other quarters have been busy denying that any big sea battle was taking place at all.
According to these sources the Ger-
without any interference. Another item of news published here states: "We know where
the British fleet is, but we are not saying that the German Government is not at war with Norway,"
man
was well aware of the altitude of the Extremely Hazardous Operations was hit and we have seen nothing of cided to establish order on the basis Ratesparts crossed the Skoger
British Government to restrictions on
KING HAAKON "WANTED"
LONDON, Apr.
was seen
Nazi "Concession" To Danish Ships
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“
BERLIN, April, 12, (UP).—DNB reports that the Danish "Ministry of Commerce" has lifted the bon" on Danish shipping leaving port and has permitted trafle to open with Ger- man ports,
11 (teuter).- British trade and the discrimination Continuing his address to the Ifouse her slice.
minst British shipping.
R.A.F. Hit Two Cruisers of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill With regard to the general bearing said:
"At dusk yesterday evening the on questions on the improvement of
Air "From all we had heard on Tues-Fleet
Arm fly from the British and Japanese relations, he day night at the Admiralty, we Orkneys and attacked the remaining said, His Majesty's Government was thought the operations so hazardous cruiser in Bergen, securing three watching the position closely. that at one in the morning we told hills with their 509-1b. bombs.
the Commander of the Destroyer "Or 10 machines, 15 returned and Flotilla that he must be the sole a little later when reconnaissance Judge whether to attack or not, and was sent over, no cruiser wa that we would support him whatever where this one was lying, but only a he હવ and whatever happened. long streak of oil about a mile long (Cheers),
on the surface of the harbour. Ile entered with five destroyers "To-day at daybreak, torpedo- STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter). -It is reported here that the Cer- such guns as they could have landed, 10
and attacked enemy destroyers and carrying aircraft of the Ficet Air number, attached enemy" mans were ordered to secure the per-
ships in the harbour of Trondheim. on shore in the interval. son of King Haakon of Norway at "Its report at the begining only class cruiser which was reported to We had hoped to capture 41 "Hipper" all costs but failed.
told us what they had lost. I let it no out because I do not think we be there, but she had leff in the LONDON, Apr. 11 (Reuter),-Un- want to be mealy-mouthed on these night and all we got was a destroyer some of large tonnage, have been sunk confirmed reports received here state matters, laying, embarked on this
which was hit by a torpedo" that the Norweglan Government is war we expect to take
or captured either in the Kattegat or our
Hitler's Error
other parts of the North Sen and in now in a town northeast of Elverum "As soon as the report was received Concluding, Mr. Churchill said that attempting to bring supplies to the and 10 miles from the Swedish at about 1 o'clock, I prepared it for in the very much smaller forces of the force landed at Narvik. border.
the Prime Minister, who immediate- German Navy, the most grievous
King At Eloverum
the
blows.
Across
10 hat going to allow the enemy supply their armies
theso waters with impunity. "Hitherlo nearly a dozen ships,
"I must consider the German fleet It is reported that King Hankon isly gave it to the House of Commons losses had already been sustained. crippled in the important respects." still at Elverun.
and to the country and the Press at Norwegian batteries had taken their Mr. Churchill felt that the same time. The moment we get toll."
audacious and costly operations of He considered that Hitler had com- the German Navy the
Medal For Panay Survivors
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHÍ
THERE'S ALLURE IN ips
ny news, good or bad, once we con rely on it we shall present it to mitted a strategic error in extending prelude near Var might only be to WITH A NATURAL GLOW
Parliament and to the Prime Minia the war co far north and forcing the impend on land. "But we feel ready Scandinavian peoples out of the their to encounter the utmost malice of the |ter and the Fress,
"I am all for propaganda and jaltitude of neutrality.
enemy and to devote uli sur life and publicly, but the best propaganda is Four German cruisers, nearly half strength to achieving victory, which WASHINGTON, April 11, (UP).—† results, and I must say. I think that of their total pre-war strength and is a world cause." The US. Senate has authorised the these are coming to hand in no more than half their exlating strength
Faroe Island Occupied Secretary for the Navy to issue a unsatisfactory manner. (Cheers). jin cruisers, had been sunk and a Mr. Churchill added that Britali Naval Expeditionary Medal for the,
Transport Blown Up
21 civilians aboard the U.S.S. Penny when she was bombed and sunk by Japanese planes on the Yangtse back; our destroyers met the Raven "We were told that on their way River in 1937.
feld, filed will reserve ammunition Among the recipients of the medals with which, I suppose, the enemy will be Mr. Weldon James, the had intended to turn Narvik into a United Press correspondent; Mr. kind of Sebastopol or Gibraltar, This Nonnan Alley, Universal News-reel ship was blown up and we must re- photographer and Mr. James Mat gard that as simplifying the tank shall, Colliers Magazine.writer. which lies ahead,
number of German destroyers, and several more U-boats had been
toll of German trousport and store destroyed, all since Sunday,
British submarines had taken heavy ships.
Churchill's Promiso
had occupled the Faroe Islands, which were a strategle point of high im-
receive them with high regard. These funds had shown every disposition to portance. The people of. Faroe Is-
islands would be handed back to Denmarkt at the end of the war.
"All German ships in Skaggernic The question of Iceland needed fur- and the Kattegat will be sunk and ther consideration. But no German by night all ships will be sunk as would be allowed to set foot there Lie opportunity, occurs. We are with impunity,
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