CAPTURE OF GERMANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 8

CAPTURE OF GERMANS

NAZI STRATEGY FOILED. ALARMS IN SWEDEN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 10. The German troops retreating From Narvik are reported to have occupied Bjoerfell station, on the iion ore The' Norwegian High Command, broadcasting from Bodo. that British marines are holding Narvik. The Norwegians surrounding most or the retreating Germans have also captured Germans dropped by parachute in several districts. Two German ’planes were shot down. The Swedish radio, which was intermittently jam bed, announced that all ports of Southern and Western Sweden are closed to foreign shipping, except Gothenburg, entrance to which is forbidden without a special permit. While air raid precautions measures are extending throughout Sweden, alarms have been sounded in several towns. Coastal batteries and warships fired oil two ’planes believed to be German. One made a forced landing on an island opposite Gothenburg. GERMAN NAIVETE In Berlin officials persist that Germany is holding Narvik and also claim that German troops have reached the Swedish frontier from Narvik after defeating the Norwegians. Ihey admit that the British have possibly landed at Harstad. The Wilhelmstrasse suggests that the German naval losses at Narvik are not revealed for strategic reasons, the spokesman naively added: theoretically, we don’t need ships any more, hut will soon show the world we have still got a navy. ... Paris reports that I 1 rank O Neill, of the Red Cross Society, the first American to enter No Man s Land, saved four wounded Irencnmon. O’Neill, with a French stretcherbearer, went out under German shellfire and brought in the wounded.