REINFORCEMENTS SENT.
ENEMY TROOPS AT NARVIK. LONDON, May 7. ' Narvik is being continuously bomba i-Jed by the Allies. A German pilot who made a forced landing in Sweden said he was returning from flying 80 troops to the Narvik garrison. The Daily Mail’s Stockholm correspondent states that large numbers of German transports are going north, which explains a report hom the irontier that the British, faced with greatly superior lorccs, .have been compelled to withdraw to other positions north of Narvik. _ The Stockholm correspondent of tlio Daily Telegraph states that the Germans are renorted to have created an airfield in the Narvik district., and in any case tlie icefields can be used for several more weeks. The Germans originally landed 4000 men, and since then they have augmented the garrison considerably. The News-Chronicle 6ays that the Germans are sending in very considerable reinforcements to Narvik by parachute.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 135, 8 May 1940, Page 7
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147REINFORCEMENTS SENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 135, 8 May 1940, Page 7
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