MORE ALLIED TROOPS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7

MORE ALLIED TROOPS

GERMAN ADMISSION. NORWAY’S GOLD SAFE. Received May 7, 11 a.m. OSLO, May 6. The Germans, instead of sending ten thousand Norwegian prisoners to Germany, have decided to release those unfit and too old for military service and to employ the others in the agriculture industry. The Norwegian gold reserve, worth twenty-two millions sterling, is being sent to England after an adventurous journey up the Gudbrands Valley. A Berlin communique states that the Allies continue to bring up artillery reinforcements from the north to Narvik. German fighters hit a battleship with a bomb and exploded a munition depot. They also shot' down two Blenheim bombers near Terschelling, an island of the Netherlands.

Seaplanes captured a British submarine 'found damaged by a mine in the Kattegat. The Official News Agency states that German patrol vessels approached the submarine before it could scuttle itself. A German officer took over command and towed the submarine out of the minefield in which it had been drifting. The British crew said a mine put out of action the diving gear and damaged the engines. A Swedish fishing boat was earlier blown up in the same minefield.

It was recently reported that Hitler’s men were looking for gold in the bank vaults of Oslo and Copenhagen. But they would find little there. During the last few weeks the Scandinavian countries, reading the signs correctly, had been sending their gold to places of safety abroad, stated a Daily Mail reporter. “Denmark and Norway, I understand, have recently sent away more than £30,000,000 worth of bullion. Much of it has been secretly flown to England and deposited in the safety of tho vaults of the Bank of England. Other gold cargoes have been shipped to the United States. About £13,000,000 in gold, has been flown here from Denmark alone, I understand. Norway has lately sent most of her £23,000,000 gold holdings abroad—more than £8,000,000 of it to the United States, where elie already had a large gold reserve im the |ederal Reserve Bank of New York. Sweden, too, lias been getting gold out of the country fast. Last month (March) more" than £16,000,000 worth of her £74.000,000 reserve reached the Ulilted States.”