POWER STATION BLOWN UP

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 5

POWER STATION BLOWN UP

British Commandos In

Norway FREQUENT SORTIES

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received October 14, 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 13.

Six British commandos landed from a warship south of Bodo in northern Norway, and succeeded in blowing up an important power station, after which they were captured and taken to Trondheim.

Unknown persons blew up the Malm pumping station north of Trondheim, as a result of which the mineshafts were flooded.

The Stackholm correspondent of the “New York Times” reporting that saboteuers blew up the power station, .says that while the Nazis, under cover of tlie state of emergency, have executed obviously innocent Norgegians, the Germans believe British parachutists accomplished the deed. An extensive manhunt produced no results.

The deputy-leader of the House of Commons, Mr. Attlee, was asked in the House if the public was kept fully informed of all raids carried out by the Director of Combined Operations and, if not, how many such raids, hitherto undisclosed, had been carried out and with what results.

Mr. Attlee replied: “The large raids are fully described, but there may be many minor operations on the scale of trench raids in the last war; about which normally nothing would be said.”