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FRENCH PREMIER'S SPEECH R.A.F. AGAIN RAID GERMABj POSITIONS GERMAN CLAIM The I Chamber of Deputies cheered M. Paul Reynaud, Premier of France, when he details of Allied successes in Scandinavia." He said that the first big battle fought between! the Allied and German forces! was a naval one and was decisively by the Allies. Giving details of enemy losses, M. Rey* naud said that Germany had lost: 20 per cent of her heavy ships* 20 per cent of her cruisers andl 25 per cent of her destroyers. The R.A.F. has made further' raids on enemy positions iiK Norway, destroying hangars and aeroplanes. A German communique issued last evening stated that the death penalty will be inflicted on anyone cutting telephone or telegraph wires, or signalling with lights from the Norwegian coast. According to the Berlin radio there is not a British; soldier on Norwegian soil and Nar-». vile is still in German possession*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 148, 17 April 1940, Page 5
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156LATEST WAR NEWS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 148, 17 April 1940, Page 5
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