AIR FIGHTING
REPORTED OVER OSLO i — BRITISH PLANES SAID TO BE ENGAGED. ENEMY SEIZURE OF PORTS IN NORWAY. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. April 9. It is reported from Oslo that British and German aircraft were ) fighting over Oslo. The correspondent of the United Press of AmeI rica says: “I saw four German machines crash.” It is persistently reported that a British-French air fleet of 600 to 700 machines is en route to Norway. Earlier messages reported that German warships shelled the fortress of Kristiansand, in Southern Norway, and that German planes carried out bombing aids on both Kristiansand and Kristiansund, because they resisted occupation. German marines disguised as merchant seamen occupied Narvik and also Bergen and Stavanger. They threw hand grenades among port officials as they leapt from cargo vessels on to the wharf.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1940, Page 5
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