SMASHING NAVAL ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1940, Page 5

SMASHING NAVAL ATTACK

GERMAN FORCES IN NARVIK WIPED OUT

Whole Enemy Coast Blanketed with Mines

HEARTENING NEWS

Seven Nazi Destroyers Sunk at Narvik MINE BARRIER LAID ACROSS BALTIC CRIPPLING BLOW TO GERMAN TRADE MANY TRIUMPHS SCORED BY BRITISH AIRMEN (By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, j\pril 14. Concurrently with Swedish reports of fighting after a British landing at Narvik and an unelaborated refernce by the 8.8. C. to “British military headquarters in Noway” came the most heartening news since the rape of Scandinavia when the Admiralty announced that a British flotilla had stormed Narvik and sunk seven German destroyers with small British loss. Described in London as a crippling blow to the German trade in the Baltic Sea, a minefield has been laid which blankets the whole of the German Baltic coast. The new fields commence at the eastern limit of a vast minefield laid by Britain last week across the North Sea and into the Kattegat, and they extend to the southern tip of Lithuania. Lively air activity over Norway has resulted in more successes for the Royal Air Force, bringing to a climax the week in which, clashing with the German Air Force for the first time on a large scale, British airmen have scored triumph after triumph. The Germans have greatly increased the number of planes ferrying troops and munitions to Norway, but the Royal Air Force is on its toes and throughout yesterday extensively reconnoitred and encountered enemy activity along the Norwegian coast and inland. The air arm of the Navy has bombed further supply ships and a German-occupied base in Norway.