GERMANS BOMB CIVILIANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 7

GERMANS BOMB CIVILIANS

(United Press Association.—-By Electric Telegraph.. -Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received May 6, 10.10 a.m. . ’ RUGBY, May 5. A War Office communique states : “There is nothing of importance to report from Narvik, where operations are continuing. There has been slight enemy air activity in this area.” . ' ' A Swedish correspondent, telephoning from Roros this morning, said he saw a German warplane drop six bombs as people were going to church. “The German bombers are coming again. I must cut the call,” he said. According to the Press Association the Norwegian News Agency states the Germans now hold Stored (south of Trond- ' heim) after an attack 15 miles to the east on Saturday in which they lost 200 men. The Norwegian troops also suffered heavy losses. A Stockholm report says that the Germans this afternoon reobcupied Roros (south-east from Storen). The Germans were driven out from P.oros last week.

NORWEGIAN RESISTANCE. Though, reliable information con.cerning the present position in South Norway is necessarily scanty, officials of the Norwegian Government are reported as having stated that the withdrawal of the Allied troops will have no influence on the will of the Norwegian Government to continue the fight for freedom. \ The Norwegian News Agency in | Stockholm said the Norwegians have I every intention of understanding the ii difficulty with which the Allied troops 1 were faced during the first period of { the war in Norway and that the Alt' . lied decision had in no way weakened l Norwegian determination to resist the }• German invasion. f When denying reports that King / Haakon and his Government had left ! Norway, the agency declared that the | Norwegian forces in the south had ini' Dieted heavy losses on the Germans 1 during the past few days. | As regards the reported caprtulation of the Norwegian commander in the Trondelag area, the agency pointed out that this did not mean that all Norwegian resistance had been given up and that these negotiations concerned only his own command. The Norwegian garrison in the val-. ley north of Trondheim was still putting up strong resistance and the fort of Hegre, whose tiny garrison of some hundred men had been holding out against the German attackers since the beginning of the invasion and whose fortitude and skill have already earned the widest admiration, was continuing to resist. Freed from what turned into an unprofitable commitment in the south, the command of .the North-Wes-tern, Expeditionary Force is in a better position to push forward vigorously in co-operation with the Norwegian command with a schemo of operations more securely based. It may be confidently assumed that the Allied military authorities in Norway are fully aware of the intention of the British and French Governments not to abate the effort they promised to make in support of Hitler’s latest victims.