BRITISH LANDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1940, Page 5

BRITISH LANDING

IN AREA SOUTH OF NARVIK KtPUHILD rKUM SIOU K HOLM. GERMANS CONVEYING TROOPS BY AIR. LONDON, April 12. A message from Stockholm says that according to authoritative Norwegian sources, British forces have landed to the south of Narvik and are endeavouring to join up with the Norwegians. The same sources state that British and Norwegian forces are in close contact near Bergen. Estimates of the tolal number of Germans in Norway now range from 20.000 to 40,000. Two hundred troop transport aeroplanes capable of taking 20 men each are reported to be flying regularly from Denmark. The Norwegian Government has gone to Bodo. Earlier it had moved from Elverurn to the village of Nybergsund, 15 miles form the Swedish border. Six German planes heavily bombed and machine-gunned Nybergsund, and several civilians were injured. Members of the Royal Family and the Government had, however, already left. The German High Command claims that troops landed on the Danish island of Bornholm (south of Sweden), which Swedish circles describe as the key to the Baltic. It is reported from Berlin that German troops in Oslo found 50 new American Curtiss aeroplanes which arrived this week, and had not yet been assembled. The French military attache at Oslo was captured. STORIES OF REFUGEES DEUTSCHLAND AT TRONDHEIM (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. Norwegian refugees arriving at the Swedish frontier say Bergen is occupied by between 2000 and 3000 troops. The pocket battleship Deutschland is reported to be at Trondheim, where 1200 Germans have landed.