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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 27, 1940.

LATE NEWS

KILLED IN NORWAY

Peter Fleming Victim Of Nazi Bomb

STOCKHOLM, Apr. 27 (UP)

The Namsos correspondent of the "Allehanda" Blates thal Captain

Fire In Aircraft Factory

LONDON, Apr. 20 (UP).~A wing of the Government aircraft factory at Denham caught fre last night.

A quantity of machinery was des. troyed,

No reasons are given for the out-

break,

Pster Fleming. the noted British NAZIS CONTINUE

author and former correspondent of the London "Times", was killed in action in Namsos on Wednesday.

Captain Fleming was killed during the big Nazi air raid on the city.

He 1x survived by his wife and Infant baby

Captain Fleming was in Hongkong In May 1930, whilst reporting the China War for the "Times".

tion.

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STOCKHOLM, Apr. 26 (UP).—The official Norwegian" communique_to- day stated that British troops des- troyed two armoured cars at Kvam.

The communique added that

the

CIVILIANS BOMBED

London, Apr. 25. German bombers roared all day yesterday across the mountains and fjords of western Norway, bombing

and villages

machine-gunning

The German troops continue their advance and have reached the rall- way to Rocros, A German plane Following his visit to the Far East bombed the railway and highways as war correspondent, Captain Flem-north of the city. ing wrote a book on his experiences in China. It was his lost oublien- Garman troops in western Norway elviiions, the Norwegian Telegraph have advanced from the villages of He joined the British Army at the Ulvik and Elde in the province of outbreak of hostilities with Germany. Hardanger towards Voss, as well as

He was married in 1935 to Misslonit the railway from Bergen, Cella Johnson, the well-known actress German artillery stationed at Elde, who played the lead in the stage pro-together with German planes, bom- duction of "The Wind and the Rain." barded Voss to-day, the communique Mrs. Fleming visited the Far East sald. with her husband, and their baby was born just before the European War broke out.

The German bombs on Namsos, not witleh clulmed his 1e, were

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Agency reports. A few casualties are reported, but only slight demage wns caused,

A German plane was shot down

the points during attacks on Andalsnes, one of at which the British Expeditionary Force landed.

been

Bombs are sald to have dropped in the mountains far from ary objectives, the only target military often being a

ing a handful of civilians.. The people of the towns have not decided whether to be evacuated as BERLIN, Apr. 27 (UP)-Reliable they are pursued everywhere by Ger- aerial warfare. He was in several air raids in China, and described his sources understand that the German man planes. Rage is growing at this experiences

lecture in n

statement, form of warfare and the civil popula the Foreign nt National Book Fair in London.

scheduled to be read to-day, is the tion's will to resist is rising higher

new throughout the country-Reuter. Captain Fleming was born in May, prelude to the issuance of a 1907 and was educated at Elon, where German collection of documenta he was head of the school and editor "thrawing more light on the war of its magazine, and at Christ Church,} guilt” centering on Norway. Oxford.

British Fleet Closing In

STOCKHOLM. Apr. 27 (UP).—It]

is reported from Riksgransen that heavy gundre was heard from Nar- vikate yesterday. It Justed for severni hours.

It is believed to have come from! gunfiro from the British fleet closing] in on the northern land side of Nar vik to

to disembark a. landing party, The Allied forces

thut claim Narvik is now completely encircled. A snowstorm has been raging in Narvik for the past two days but it has now abated and it is therefore possible that the Allies may try to close in on the town garrison.

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Stockholm, Apr, 20.

The momentous German drive up the Oesterdalen Valley has slowed down sharply as the column reached the watershed dividing the

Ocster- dalen and the Gaudal Valleys,

The Germans fought throughout morning, but their advance from

this me

Rocros has not yet reached the new Norwegian defence positions three miles to the north of Roeros at the

foothills of the watershed.

The ralfrond and highway on which the Germans pre moving climb through twisting gorges between high mountains at this point which is ideally suited for defence, It

It may be the point on which the Allied de- fence sector should be based. Once over the watershed the road and roll- Ford wind rood wind dow

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to Trondheim Fjord. It is reported from the frontier that the Norwegians are now holding the strategle positions in the moun- tains of the entire route marched by the Germans in the last four days over 120 miles long from Elverum to Rooros. It is confirmed by Serman quarters that the column which is driving to contact with the Trond- heim landing forces, is composed of

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dimculties in the event it grent encountered resistance or halted with such a long line of communication through hostile hills, for which reason the Germans pre trying to widen their positions. However, it is report. ed from the frontier that the Nor- wegian soldiers are doggedly holding the mountainous country on each side of the road, where the mechanised force is of no importance, and where the Norwegians are meeting the Ger- man infantry units under equal con- ditions, and nie

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The Germans are not sparing any troops from the mechanised column themselves to try to widen their posl- tions the valley, apparently feeling the best defence will depend on an active offensive which continues in the push.-United Press.

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