NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
REPORTED IN SKAGERRAK. LONDON, May 1. Newspaper dispatches from Stockholm report a naval battle in the Skagerrak near Skagen. Seven destroyers and five merchantmen were involved. A , Berlin report says officials boasted that the German air force and naval patrols are daily and nightly keeping intact the lifeline of 60.000 German troops in Norway. Allied warships, they declare, have not broken through the Skagerrak. The officials admitted the loss of 11 “comparatively small transports and supply ships.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 130, 2 May 1940, Page 9
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79NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 130, 2 May 1940, Page 9
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