LAND FIGHTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1940, Page 6

LAND FIGHTING

NORWEGIANS RESISTING FURIOUSLY — I AID BY ALLIED AIRCRAFT AND TROOPS. STORY OF THE OCCUPATION OF OSLO. (Received This Day. 1.10 p.m.) LONDON. April .10. Aided by Allied aircraft and troops the Norwegians are furiously resisting the German invasion. The Stockholm radio reported that British troops were outside Trondheim, but the recapture of that place is not confirmed. The Norwegians ciafm ?. success near Kongavinger. Sharp fighting is in progress at Bergen and in Oslo Fiord. '('lie Norwegians are reported to be advancing near Elverum. to which place the Germans are rushing reinforcements. German infantry are attacking the Norwegian positions aided by aircraft and are also operating against lhe fortress of Horten. Reuter’s correspondent at Oslo, who slipped across the frontier into Sweden at midnight, says the Norwegians rallied eight miles north of Oslo, whore a major battle is raging. The Norwegian Royal Family, including the King, sheltered under a goods truck during an air raid yesterday!

The correspondent adds: "I watched about, a thousand Germans inarch into the centre of the city on the afternoon of April 9. All were armed for immediate action. The inhabitants lined the streets to watch the entry. The city capitulated on April 9, after a night, and morning of terror, in which German planes bombed all military objectives and machine-gun-ned districts round the harbour defences. "The Germans had already taken over control of all military aerodromes, including Fornebo. near Oslo, where fifty Nazi bombers landed and threatened Io bomb the inhabitants if they resisted. "By noon on April 9. the station was packed with people departing, carrying all their portable possessions.' Tlie streets were deserted and offices and banks closed. Towards evening t saw three bombers circling at a great height. Suddenly there was a terrific roar and a house 'was blown up. Five more bombs landed. We realised that counter-action had begun when we saw planes resembling British."