GERMANS FALL BACK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 7

GERMANS FALL BACK

PRESSURE AT NARVIK. MORE ALLIED LANDINGS. APPALLING WEATHER. (United Press Association—By Electiic Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 10, 9.30 a.m. PARIS, May 9. . Further, landings have been made in Norway and contact has been established at all points with the Germans at Narvik, who are falling back gradually. Appalling weather, with frequent snowstorms, continues to slow down operations.

A Norwegian communique from Stockholm states a small German detachment advancing slowly northwards was engaged by Norwegian patrols. The German forces at Narvik are reported to be in danger of starvation due to the insufficiency of supplies dropped by parachute. Tfle Norwegian High Command emphasises that guerrilla fighting continues in the Roros sector in. Central Norway, where the Germans have suffered heavily, Swedish reports state that Sweden has mined the territorial waters along the entire archipelago outside Stockholm.

The French General Mittelhauser, addressing the French Alpine troojis in a British northern town after their return from Namsos, said: “When you take up your duties, for which you will he protected against bombardment from the air, strike decisively against an adversary who boasted too early.” An earlier Berlin communique said: “German fighters attacked the Allied naval forces at Narvik, sinking a 7000ton transport with a medium calibre bomb. The Air Force frequently participated in ground fighting and destroyed an Allied submarine in the Skagerrak.”