CAPTURE OF NARVIK.
GERMANS’ RAPID ENTRY. PARALYSING STRATEGY. Reeeiverl April 12, 11 a.m. NEW YORK, April 11. The New York Times Narvik correspondent says the German strategy appears to be to control the railways and roads in the interior, using small forces co-operating with the destroyers for paralysing the Norwegians and reducing them to guerrilla warfare. Narvik’s capture. was incredibly quick, the action lasting half an hour. In another half-hour the Germans established their headquarters in the town and began climbing the hills to establish fortifications. The correspondent adds: “When we arrived on the scene we saw Germans facing hastily assembled Norwegian guards in the market-place. Ihe Germans had machine-guns. We stood oji one side by a concrete wall. An officer waved away the curious, oncoming crowd, and demanded that the Norwegians surrender. They were not ready for action, being armed only with' rifles, so they retreated before the Germans, who occupied the post office and railway. The civilians were stupefied as the Germans advanced down the main street.” The British United Press correspondent near Narvik says the Norwegians have blocked the iron ore railway tunnel twelve miles inland from thero. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 7
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