HEADING NORTHWARD. .

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

HEADING NORTHWARD. .

large german forces. LONDON, May 6. A Stockholm message states that travellers arriving at the frontier from Norway report big movements of herman troops and aeroplanes northward Over a hundred ’planes were headed north on Sunday. The newspaper 1 idnin"en believes that the Germans plan a ‘‘blitzkreig” against Narvik. In the bombardment of Roros (in the Oster Valley, south-east of Trondheim), which was announced in a Norwegian communique earlier to-day, there was no loss of life. Machine-gun fire made the people flee to the suburbs. The story of the occupation o Roros was telephoned by the United Press correspondent. His call was tin last before the Germans took control of the telephone exchange, and livt German soldiers were standing outside the telephone box as he was speaking. The Norwegian commander Had withdrawn all troops from the town, but though there were no Norwegian soldiers there five bombs were dropped in the main street. There are no airraid shelters in the town. The Torres pendent says that a litGe earlier Norwegians had helped a German soldier who fell-from his motor-cycle He was picked up, put on a stretcher, and taken to hospital. _. A British broadcast announced King Haakon’s arrival in the I< inmark district (Northern Norway) simultaneously with the announcement of the hombing of Kirkenes. , , ~, , The (Swedish radio earlier stated that a German ’plane dropped four bombs at Kirkenes, in North-East Norway. No damage was done and there were no casualties. .This has been the first German ,’plane to have penetrated so SecS reached Euston from Scotland. He was iS n, 2„ ■W'ssrrs Norwegian Parliament., They are returning to the Norwegian army afte leave in London.