GERMANS REPORTED AT NAMSOS
Some Norwegians Sent With Allied Troops (Received May 5 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 4. A dispatch to the Swedish newspaper “Aftonbladet” from the Norwegian frontier says the Germans have entered Namsos. Norwegian troops are still operating at Trondheim after the British withdrawal. King Haakon was evacuated aboard a British warship to northern Norway. He declined to take refuge in London. It is learnt that General Paget’s plan for the evacuation of Andalsnes embraced the transfer of a certain number of Norwegians with the Allies to areas where they can best be employed. Military circles state that the Allies could have remained in central Norway indefinitely if one air base had been available. The lack of an effective counter to the German air force was undoubtedly the major cause of the Allied sol-back. Tho number of Allied troops engaged in central Norway was considerably smaller than had been imagined.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 9
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152GERMANS REPORTED AT NAMSOS Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 9
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