BRITISH LANDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 5

BRITISH LANDINGS

REPORTED SEIZURE OF BODO ATTACK ON TRONDHEIM IN PROSPECT. GERMANS TRYING TO MOVE TROOPS NORTHWARD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, April 19. A report from Lulea states that British troops landed near Bodo and are beginning to seize the town. The British United Press correspondent at Lulea says British troops landed mid Way between Bodo and Trondheim, and are re--2 ported to be preparing a base for a major attack on Trondheim, which the German commander, Colonel Weiss, is evidently expecting. The Stockholm correspondent of •‘The Times” says empty trains have been waiting at Trondheim station since April 14 to transport German troops northward, but these apparently have not yet arrived. The correspondent adds that weak German forces sent by air to Namsos are reported to have been destroyed or dispersed, probably by Allied forces. A Stockholm report says the radio announced that the Norwegian Government had leceived reports from north Trondelag and north Norway declaring that the forces in those districts believe they will be able to maintain their positions, as they are now in contact with the British expeditionary force. The front in southern Norway runs from the southern extremity of Lake Mjosen, westward to Lake Rands Fiord end thence to Gothenburg.