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BATTLE OF SKAGGERAK STILL

RAGES:

NORWEGIAN AND ALLIED FORCES TO UNITE

British landing in Oslo fjord

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HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES

NAZIS LOSE 18 SHIPS

Reynaud's Rousing Statement

PARIS, Apr. 11 (Reuter). -M. Paul Reynaud, the Fremier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies to-day Isaid that 22 ships were at the bottom of the ocean of which 18 were Germans and four British. He said that! (no French vessels had been

lost.

He declared that Germany's initial tactical success had proved an immense strategical blunder.

The iron ore route was and would

four

remain eut for Germany.

The British Navy had Just

STOCKHOLM, April 11 (UP).-Press reports from Yddeyalla, near the Norwegian-Swedish frontier, stated this morning that British ships have forced their way into Oslo Fjord, where theytroyer and 12 troop transports.

are now attempting to land troops.

The ships have received a great welcome from Norwegians.

the

the

Many Norwegian volunteers will unite with British troops as soon as the landing is completed.

Meanwhile, in view of the possibility of major hostilities in and around Oslo, the Swedish authorities have ordered a complete blackout at Gothenburg.

Press reports from that city

destroyers and the German Navy four total fleet, one submarine, one

cruisers, representing one-tenth of lis des-

· Boleaguered Garrison "Germany who needs steel to at- tack us now presents us with a pic- ture of a sortle by a beleaguered garrison," he said. "After leaping on mark she hurled herself at Nor-

not

way believing that she would meet mere resistance from them than she met from Austria in 1930. Instead

she met with the resistance of Bel- gium in

in 1914."

At this point the whole Chamber rose and applauded,

切

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IN SWEDEN

THEY'RE

READY

TOO

The Swedes anxiously watch events neighbouring Norway. Sweden fears that she may be dragged into the war and is evacuating border towns.

waY

does come Sweden 18 ready, as this naval A.A. gun-team shows,

DARING RAID

ON BERGEN: NAZI

Encison with peeve WARSHIP SUNK

Returning to the naval aspect, M. Reynaud said that there whs no example in history of operations state that the British Navy has undertaken with decisive naval-in-

feat. The French squadrons and Polish warships were partlelpating

GERMAN S succeeded in mining part of the feriority which had not ended in de

REPULSED

Norwegians Fighting With Determination

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Skaggerak,

Sweden has also mined part of her western coast, and shipping| has been warned to this effect.

Comparative Losses

While an accurate comparison of

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

ENEMY BOTTLED: CAN'T ESCAPE, SAYS CHURCHILL

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

LONDON, APRIL 11 (UP),—THE BATTLE OF SKAGGERAK IS STILL RAGING, DECLARED MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-DAY.

HE PROMISED THE HOUSE THAT THE ALLIES WILL BLAST THE GERMAN WARSHIPS FROM THE SEA AND WILL ESTABLISH CON- TROL OF NORWAY.

Mr. Churchill revealed that the battle off Norway had already resulted in “great losses for Germany", and he declared that Hitler has mado a "groat 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.

He also warned neutral Powers to beware of further Nazi blows.

AT THE SAME TIME HE PREDICTED THAT ALL THE GERMAN WARSHIPS IN THE SKAGGERAK · AND KÄTTEGAT 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.

He also roscaled that H.M.3. Nazis Capture

Renown was engaged in a duel with two German battle cruisers, both of

badly which were damaged, but which finally escaped owing to the heavy seas and difficult visibility.

The British Admiralty has now

Issued a statement declaring that all been saved.

but 14 of the Gurkha's crew have

alongside the British fleet, he added. LONDON, Apr. 11 (UP),—The sinking of a German cruiser by British warplanes while the warship was The mines were laid in very LONDON, Apr. 11 (leuter).resting in Bergen harbour (the city is reported to be grent haste shortly before dawn British and German lost again in Norwegian hands) is indicated by a report made to-day..

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when he flew over the jetty where the cruiser had been Extremely Hazardous Operations

LONDON, Apr. huge patch of oil.

(Reuter).- Continuing his address to the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill said:

Latest Naxi Claims · LONDON, Apr. 11 (UP).— BERLIN, Apr. 11 (Reuter). The Radio Stockholm has announced (official news agency here claims that that the Norwegian forces in two more British destroyers have been sunk in a naval action in the Bergen are organising strong de-west fjord at Narvik. fences, and have succeeded in The agency also claims that strong checking the German advance. German reinforcements have landed)

In the Elverum and Hamar at Osto, Bergen and Stavanger. sector, the Germans have been thrown back,, and are now five miles south of Hamar.

news

thet

Trondheim Attack BERLIN, Apr. 11 (Reuter).--The locial

states agency The radio announcement denied British planes attacked Trondheim rumours that

Germans the

are and says that the attack was repulsed. marching from Trondheim towards the Swedish frontier.

Warships Escape

The station also asserted that: Narvik is quiet and that British

forces have not Innded there.

Mobilisation Complatad Meanwhile, Norway has completed the mobilisation of her troops in the north to fight beside the Allied forces, declared M. Hambro, President the Storting to-day.

"We will fight to the last

STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter) - of

for our independence", he asserted. ¡weğlan Commander-in-Chief.

His statement indicated that a Bri

19h expeditionary force is expected

to land in Norway, and he added

that the Norwegians will co-operate

May Mean End Of War

Effect Of Nazi Defeat In Scandinavia

for Germany.

LANDSLIDE VICTORY

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moored, all that was left was

The cruiser had disappeared and was not to be located either

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in Bergen harbour or the neigh FLARE-UP

bouring fjords,

Here is the text of the report made by British almen who participated in the operations off the Norwegian const:

Immense Patch Of Oil

set off at midday I was handed a photograph newly developed and taken by another of our aircraft carlier to-day. It showed all shipping The clustered In Bergen- Fjord. cruiser stood out quite clearly against the jetty, I knew exactly where to look for it,

EXPECTED

French Minister's West Front Warning PARIS, Apr. 11 (Reuter),—

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Churchill's Nephew

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Apr. 11 (UP).- Esmond Romilly, 19-year-old nephew of Mr. Winston Chur- chill, and a member of one of Britain's oldest families, has heen arrested in Narvik by the German nuthorities, according to

DNB report.

Mr. Romilly was holidaying in Norway when the German invasion began.

Ile Is described by DNB ns in "English journalist who thanks to the good tips he gets from his uncle, Winston Chur- chill, always appeared before English netion in being prepar-

Actually, Mr. Romilly is not

n. Journalist. He served in Spain with the International Brigade, and fought in the de- fence of Madrid.

LATEST

Nazis Foiled

"From all we had heard on Tues- day night at the Admirally, we thought the operations so hazardous that at one in the morning we told the Commander of the Destroyer Flotilla that he must be the sole SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

that we would support him whatever judge whether to attack or not, and AMSTERDAM, Apr. 11 (UP), The man-in-the-street of Hol-

he did and whatever happened. (Cheers). and is following the present "Reconnaissance aircraft of a coastal

ed." "He entered with dve destroyers terrific battles over Norway with command yesterday flew over Bergen The front might blaze up any and attacked enemy destroyers and STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter).- great interest. According to reports from Marstrand

harbour. They found the berth in day, said a War Ministry spokes-such guns as they could have landed The general comment is that if the which a German cruiser had been more German warships and

warning that on the shore in the interval,

"His report at the beginning only Allies succeed in blasting the Ger-moored, before the Fleet Air Arm'sman, giving a transports which escaped in yester-mans out of Norway it will be the attack, empty. In the place where "events in North Europe must told us what they had fast. I let it Oslo Fjord. day's naval battle have reached the biggest blow German morale has the cruiser had been there was an not make us forget the front be go out because I do not think wo

ever suffered and may end all

Immense patch of oll a mile long tween the Moselle and the want to be mealy-mouthed on these | 900 gression,

stretching the length of the jetty and Rhine."

matters. Having embarked on this Many people even go so far as to curing around its end. There was

He added: "At various points we War wo expect to take our blows. It is reported here that General Otto say that a Nazi reverse in Scandinavia no sign of the warship.

"As soon as the report was received "The navigator of a British aircraft have observed Indications of preparant about 1 o'clock, I prepared it for man Ruge has been appointed as Nor-may mean the nefunt loss of the war said on his return; 'Just before weitions for an attack,"

the Prime Minister, who immediate- Leave Cancelled

ly gave it to the House of Commons PARIS, Apr. 11 (Reuter) and to the country and the Press at Army leave has been temporarily the same time. The moment we get suspended.

nny news, good or bad, once we can Blitzkriog Preparations.

rely on it we shall present it to SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

Parliament and to the Prime Minis- PARIS, Apr. 11 (UP).—It is semi-ter and the Press, officially announced that the Allied High Command has observed indien tions of preparations for a German Biltzkrieg on the Western Front.

A French War Office spokesman unsatisfactory manner. (Cheers). said to-day that the Western Front blaze Into action nt nny

Transport Blown Up might moment.

"We were told that on their way German preparations, obviously back, our destroyers met the Raven- for an attack, have been observed at fold, filled with reservo ammunition different points,

with which, I suppose, the enemy SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Despatches from Amsterdam state had intended to turn Narvik Into a STOCKHOLM, April 12 (UP)--- that the Netherlands authorities have kind of Sebastopol or Gibraltar, This Tromsoe-Radio, which is now the 'Bergen Itself seemed a dead city, ordered the evacuation of towns-ship was blown up and wo must rofficial Norwegian radio station, han We saw no movement except one or people from various points near the card that as simplifying ins task broadcast a denial of the German

wo tugs. No one seemed to take any German frontier,

which lies ahend,

allegation, emanating from Oslo- notice of us and no anti-aircraft The 442nd official French com-

"Yesterday a very determined at- Radio, that General Mobilisation has defence was encountered","

munique states: "Our artillery tack was made by iwo waves of been cancelled. vigorously replled to German artillery | IA.F., whose dying in every direc- west of the Vosges to-day. Other- tion for reconnaissance, attack and wise the front has been quiet, the protection of the Navy has been un- only activity being of a patrol nature. ceasing, and to whom on behalf of Bad weather continues to limit aerial their naval comrades 1_tender my activities."

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with the British forces when they arrive.

He termed na false, reports that Norway might capitulate to the Germans.

Defences Organised STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter).- An official communique from the Norwegian Government headquarters at Elverum to-night states that tho Norwegian defence In the region has been organised,

Bergen

The communique adds that there is reason to believe German troops there have been checked and that a similar situation prevalls In the Troendelag region behind Trondheim.

Norwegian Communiqua STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuler)--

A Norwegian communique issued to- day says: "Mobilisation of Norwegian

IN S'HAI ELECTIONS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, April 12 (UP).—The voting in the Shanghai Municipal elections resulted in a landslide for the "Anglo-Saxon bloc."

The ballot resulted as follows: Mr. Norman Allman (US)

Mr. Joseph Garney (US)

Mr. W. J. Keswick (British)

Mr. G. A. Haley (British)

Mr. T. 8. Powell (British)

hir. R. McDonald (Bellish)

Air. G. E. Michell (British) Mr. Y. Hanawa (Japanese)

Mr. AL. Den (Japanese)

All of the abovo were declared cleated.

8,000

7,008

7,883

7,800

*,860

7,831

7,830

5,211

5,205

But Mr. Ronald G. McDonald, the Independent British candidate who, it was feared, might split the Anglo-

Tho remaining three Japanese American voto and who was boy- troops has been proceeding methodi-candidates managed to poll anfcotted by the British and American cally throughout the country the de-nverage of slightly over 6,000 voles election committees, polled only 325

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votes.

Not To Bo Found

'We flow over the harbour at about 2,000 feet. The only trace left of the cruiser was an oil patch. Just to make sure, we had a look in the neighbouring fjords but there was no cruiser anywhere ncor, and the anchorage where the cruiser was attacked by bombers on the previoua night was empty.

Norwegians Hold Borgen STOCKHOLM, Apr. 11 (Reuter); --According to latest reports the

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STOCKHOLM, April 12 (UP) —It is officially disclosed that the Nor wegian Government were able to re- "I am all for propaganda and move all the gold and banknotes publicity, but the best propaganda is from the Bank of Norway in Calo results, and I must say I think that before evacuating the capital. these are coming to hand in

no

The Government also managed to transport away from the capital all petrol, grain and fuel stores.

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