STAVANGER BOMBARDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1940, Page 5

STAVANGER BOMBARDED

BY ALLIED NAVAL FORCES Further Bombing Raids by Royal Air Force FIRST AIR ATTACK ON TRONDHEIM BASE BRITISH CRUISER DAMAGED AND SUBMARINE REPORTED LOST Stavanger aerodrome, which has been raided seven times by the R.A.F., was heavily bombarded for eighty minutes by Allied naval forces. * n u- u This followed an earlier bombing raid by the R.A.F., whicii also raided the aerodrome at Trondheim (300 miles north of Stavanger) where a large fire broke out as a result of the attack. This was the first raid on the Trondheim base. It was followed by another attack on German seaplanes. A British cruiser was hit by a bomb during the bombardment of Stavanger and although some damage was done the warship was able to continue on her course to her base. The German High Command has at last admitted that Allied troops have landed in Norway, but mentions only one of the landing places, an island near Narvik. The evening report states that two-thirds of the crews of the German destroyers put out of action at Narvik had joined up with the forces operating at Narvik, where, it is said, the Germans occupy the railway to the Swedish border. The railway has has been badly damaged by the Swedes. The Admiralty announces that the submarine Thistle, operating in the North Sea, is now considerably overdue and it must be presumed to be lost. This is the fifth submarine lost since the beginning of the war.