CONFUSING REPORTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 7

CONFUSING REPORTS.

GERMANS DRIVEN OUT? LONDON, April U. Some confusion arises from earlier reports that the Allies have recaptured Bergen and Trondheim and landed marines at Narvik, also that the Germans tried to escape from Narvik, and the reported British ultimatum to Oslo. Naval circles in London are unable to confirm these reports. Similar reports, however, continue to arrive from Sweden. The latest states definitely that the British have driven the Germans from Narvik and adds that the Germans tried to escape into Swedish territory by rail, but the Norwegians blew up several sections of the railway, along which fighting continues. Stockholm also says that the Norwegians have recaptured Hamar, Norway’s new seat of Government, which the Germans had occupied. Norway’s gold reserve and the National Bank’s securities were removed from Oslo to a place considered safe. A Stockholm message says the President of the Norwegian Parliament (Dr Hambro) described how a handful of heroes saved the Norwegian Government. He says an outpost of fifteen constituted the only troops covering the transfer of the Government from Ha mar to Elverum. They gave battle against a German advance guard numbering a hundred and succeeded in halting them. Nearly all the Norwegians were killed.