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THE HARDY’S CREW. ON OWN EXPEDITION? Received April 13. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, April 12. An Admiralty spokesman said officials do not believe there has been any major engagement in the Kattegat. The explosions heard from the shore were probably depth charges. Members of the crew from His Majesty’s destroyer Hardy are believed to have started a military expedition of their own near Narvik. After the Hardy ran aground, it is authoritatively learned, forty or fifty of the crew, fully armed, were seen to enter the boats and make for the shore. There has been no further news of their fate or whereabouts. The survivors of the destroyer Gurkha .says the commander refused + o leave when the ship was sinking, lwo ratings seized him and almost threw him into a rescue boat. The Gurkha had experienced five previous air raids after entering the scene of action on Sunday. The German ’planes continued bombing while another warship was picking up survivors. ANOTHER GERMAN CANARD. The German radio denies Mr Churchill’s statement that the Rodney was hit by a bomb. “The Rodney was so severely damaged previously that j she was not in a position to escort ! British troopships,” it says. I The German News Agency says German troops disarmed the Norwegians lat Elveness, in Northern Norway, and j reached Drammen, eastward of Oslo, also Eidsvold. It added that British 'planes bombed a small railway station in Northern Denmark, slight damage resulting. “The event was important from another viewpoint—it was the first British attack on the German concentrations. If it is repeated an entirely new situation will arise regarding the conduct of the air war agaiiisi Britain.” In London the Air Ministry denies the German report that the Royal Air Eorce bombed a railway station in Denmark. The Danish Consulate in New York says merchantmen on the high seas , have been ordered into neutral ports j following reports that the Allies are | preparing to seize them on the grounds that they have lost their neutrality i with the German occupation The Mill- 1 ister is conferring with members of j the British Embassy. (
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 7
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