GERMANS IN RETREAT.
HOSTILITIES IN NORWAY. LONDON, May 15. A Norwegian communique emphasises the successful Allied employment of f<t\iks for the first time in the Narvik sector and adds that the Germans are suffering from lack of artillery. South from Narvik the Germans were prevented from gaining footholds at Mojosen. A French officer in the Bjervik district (north of Narvik) declared that after the arrival of the French troops the Germans retreated 'at the rate of a kilometre daily.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 143, 17 May 1940, Page 6
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