AIR ACTION WITHSTOOD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 127, 29 April 1940, Page 7

AIR ACTION WITHSTOOD

(Unite'l Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright.) Received April 20, 9.15 a.m. LONDON", April 28. The War Office states that a further enemy attack against our position in Gudbrandsdals Valley (linking Hamar awitk Andalsnes) has been repulsed. ' .. Further disembarkation of troops has been successfully carried out, despite enemy air action against Andalsnes and our lines of communication. There lias been slight enemy air activity in the Narvik area. This lias not interfered with the Allies’ operation. There i-s no further news from the Namsos area between Narvik and Trondheim.

; MINES OFF NARVIK. Tlie Admiralty to-night issued a dc- , scrip tion of the minefields which have been laid off the northern Norwegian coast. One field extends completely across the mouth of the Vest Fiord. At ' the northern end of which is situated , the port of Narvik. The other field is laid near Steinvaer i Island and guards the approach to Narvik from the north. These fields are laid to defend from, submarine attack the British ships operating in Narvik waters, and efj l'eetively guard the approaches to that port. The German radio to-night warned all German shipping that the Gulf of Finland is a danger zone and must not he entered. A Stockholm report says that, according to the Altonbladet’s Tallinn correspondent, it is reported in the Baltic countries that the Soviet lias made a demarche to Berlin concerning Sweden's neutrality.