NORWEGIAN COURAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 116, 15 April 1940, Page 7

NORWEGIAN COURAGE.

KING GEORGE’S MESSAGE. RUGBY, April 13. The following message has been addressed by King George VI to the King of Norway:— •‘in this critical hour, when Germany has by a ruthless, premeditated act carried the war into your country, 1 desire to express to your Majesty my profound admiration and that oi the whole British Commonwealth for the dignity, courage, and teiiacnv shown by your Majesty and people. “Deeply sympathising with Norway in her hour of trial, I assure your Majesty that my Government, in full cooperation with the French Government are bringing all help in their power to Norway so that the Aiiieu forces, lighting side by side with Norwegians may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rush as it was wicked.” STOCKHOLM, April 13. King Haakon of Norway, when interviewed by the Dagbladet on a main road close to the Swedish border, said: “It has been a terrible ordeal. 1 have not taken off my boots since I left Oslo and have had hardly a wink of sleep. “All civilisation seems to he finished when tilings like this are possible. My Ministers can visit Sweden, and my subjects can evacuate there, but l must stay as long as an inch of soil remains Norwegian. No place is sale ior me i any longer.” ‘ The story of King Haakon’s escape from German air bombs at Nybergsund by fleeing with Government officials into a forest is told in a report to tho United States .State Department by the American Minister in Norway (Mrs Harrinian), who is at present at Holies (Sweden). The report added that i the Nybergsund Hotel was demolish- | ed. Airs Harrinian hersell was in Five-, rum, during the bombing there, and she hopes to rejoin the Government at the earliest opportunity. I The Argentine Foreign Minister (Senor Cantilo) announces the appli-1 cation to Denmark of the policy of not: recognising forcible territorial changes, i