NAZIS’ POSSIBLE ISOLATION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 9

NAZIS’ POSSIBLE ISOLATION

Drive Toward Trondheim ALLIED CONTROL OF PART OF RAILWAY (By Radio—Daventry.) LONDON, May 2. A Norwegian military communique claims that Norwegian troops reentered Roros yesterday. German prisoners taken stated that the Nazi retreat was caused by a shortage of supplies. The Norwegian telegraph agency reports that the Germans in the Oster Valley are retreating, and that they abandoned Koros on Tues day night. On the basis of these reports the Germans have retreated well over 50 miles. Reports from Sweden last night stated that in spite of all the German boasts the Allied troops still control a large section of the railway to Trondhelm. If these reports are correct they mean the Isolation of the German detachments, one from the north and the other from the east, which it was claimed had linked up on the railway. Norwegian military circles in Stockholm say that the Allies have now established strong artillery positions along the railway from Dombas to Storen.

News from Stenkjaar reports further success by French and Norwegian troops against German patrols, which were repulsed. In the far north operations continue satisfactorily for the Allies. They are reported to be moving south from a few miles north of Narvik, driving the German outposts baek on the town.