CAPTURE OF DOMBAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 5

CAPTURE OF DOMBAS

CLAIMED BY THE GERMANS CONTACT BETWEEN OSLO AND TRONDHEIM. REPORTED NORWEGIAN SURRENDER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 30. It is officially claimed that German troops have captured Dombas and Opdal. An earlier communique stated that a Norwegian infantry force, comprising 2500 men, surrendered north-west of Lillehammer, and that German forces continued to advance along all roads towards Trondheim and Dombas, repulsing the enemy wherever they came in contact and establishing contact between Oslo and Trondheim. NAZI OUTRAGE DELIBERATE BOMBING OF HOSPITAL SHIP. SURVIVORS MACHINE-GUNNED. LONDON, April 30. The Norwegian Telegraph Agency reports that Professor Freyberg, who was in the hospital ship Brand IV when it was bombed, said there were about 30 aboard the ship and it had been on its course for an hour when some German bombers came toward it and dropped bombs. The men in the aeroplanes must have seen the large red crosses on her. The bombers left and returned again and the ship was then hit. Two men standing beside him were killed and lhe explosion smashed all the glass in the ship. The vessel ran aground, and when they had escaped ashore they had to take shelter behind rocks for about an hour while aeroplanes machinegunned them. INCENDIARY POWDER DROPPED FROM ENEMY PLANES. LONDON, April 30. After German bombing attacks on Namsos yesterday a number of little red balls containing an orange-colour-ed powder were found. It is believed that this is a new German device to spread flames started by incendiary bombs.