NORWEGIANS FIGHT BACK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 8

NORWEGIANS FIGHT BACK

AIDED BY ALLIES >• REPORTS OF SUCCESSES (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright.) LONDON, April 10. Aided by Allied aircraft and troops the Norwegians are furiously resisting the German invasion. The Norwegians claim success near Kongsvingcr. Sharp fighting is in progress at Bergen and in the Oslo 1 lord. Ine Norwegians are reported to be advancing near Live rum, to which the Germans are rushing reinforcements. German infantry are attaching the Norwegian positions being aided by aircraft, and also are operating against the fortress of Horten. BRITISH WARSHIPS OPE OSLO. STOCKHOLM, April 10. The population of Oslo was ordered at 11.45 a.m. to evacuate the city immediately as the British m s ,P were reported to have threatened to bombard the city if it did not surrender within thirteen hours. According to a frontier report the British warships penetrated Oslo Fiord this morning. There were dramatic scenes in the streets and railway stations as hundreds weie Atein from the city in a panic. Measures are being taken to attemp to organise the evacuation. Women, children and elderly persons will be evacuated first.

A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT. Reuter’s correspondent at Oslo, who slipped across the frontier into Sweden at midnight, says the Norwegians have rallied eight miles north of Oslo where a major battle is raging. The Norwegian Royal Family, including the King, sheltered under a goods truck during an air raid yesterday. The correspondent adds: “I watched about a thousand Germans march m the centre of the city on the afternoon of April 9. All were armed for immediate action. The inhabitants lined the streets to watch the entry. Ine city capitulated that afternoon, after a night and morning of terror m which German ’planes bombed all the military objectives and machinegunned the districts round the harbour defences. , . “The Germans had already taken over control of all military aerodromes including Fornebo, near Oslo, wheie o(J Nazi bombers landed and threatened to bomb the inhabitants if they resisted. , , ' . “By noon on Tuesday the mam station was packed with evacuees carrving all their portable possessions. Streets were deserted and offices and banks closed. Towards evening I saw three bombers circling at a great height and suddenly there was a terrific roar and a house was blown up. Five more bombs landed and we realised counter-action had begun. I saw' ’planes resembling British.