GERMANS BOASTFUL
“OPERATIONS A PURSUIT.” EXAGGERATED claims. Received May 3, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 2. A German High . Command communique says the British are evacuat ™g m haste and disorder from the Andalsnes district. Three handled Noi wegians covering the retreat have been taken prisoner. “Our advance troops are 25 miles from Andalsnes.. .The entire DoinbasUlsber< r railway is in our hands. Lnor inous quantities of equipment were caotured near Dombas. The operationo between Oslo and Trondheim have become a pursuit. Our troops Horn Bercon have joined those. have l reached tom *£*£* have taken prisoner 3UU Aonvegia officers and 3200 men. “Our bombers sank a British merchantman and seriousiy .damaged a cruiser and six merchantmen. Jhe communique adds that six Brms ’planes were shot down. The Berlin High Command claims
that German ’planes successfully bombed two British aircraft-carriers and a destroyer yesterday off the western Norwegian J coast and shot down two British escorting fighters. One German bomber was lost.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 7
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