GERMAN DEAD
RECOVERING THE BODIES. CRUISER EMDEN REPORTED SUNK. LONDON, April 11. The Stockholm radio states that three were killed and many taken to hospital after the air battle over Oslo. Two ’planes dropped bombs on tlie outskirts of the city. Many small fishing vessels near Gothenburg are busy picking up the bodies from the German transports presumably sunk. Many British and German ’planes have flown over the Swedish town of Stromstad near the coast between the Norwegian frontier and the Skagerrak. Stromstad is blacked out. Norwegian refugees are continually arriving. It is stated that the German cruiser Emden was sunk yesterday. Many bodies of German sailors are already floating ashore near the scene of the Skagerrak battle.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 8
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118GERMAN DEAD Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 8
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