SITUATION DESPERATE.

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

SITUATION DESPERATE.

GERMANS AT NARVIK. LONDON, May 4. The French Ministry of War an-nounces-.--that the Allies’ forces at Narvik have surrounded 3000 to 4000 Germans, whose position is desperate. Swedish and Norwegian dispatches say the Allies have completely encircled the German forces in the Narvik area. The town is reported to have been heavily shelled from land and sea. The Swedish radio says the German garrison repelled a thrust from tlie north, and German ’planes operating from a hidden landing field shot down three of five British ’plan' s attacking the town. Other sources report that German troops and supplies are reaching Norway by air and sea in increasing numbers. It lias been estimated that there are some 13,000 Norwegians fighting in North Norway. ?-' NAZIS IN namsos: A dispatch to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet from the Norwegian frontier isays the Germans have entered Namsos. Norwegian troops are still operating at Trondheim after the British withdrawal. King Haakon was evacuated aboard a British warship.to Northern Norway. He declined to take refuge in London. The Stockholm representative of the Stefani "(Italian) News Agency says 17 000 Norwegian soldiers surrendered and, 1000 Allied troops were killed or wounded during the bombing at the embarkation at Namsos. The British, savs the correspondent, had disembarked 27 OCO men, 12 tanks, and 40 guns’ at Andalsnes and Namsos. while the Germans landed 110,000 men, 350 tanks and 400 guns.