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REPORTED IN SKAGERRAK ROASTING BY GERMAN OFFICIALS LIFELINE OF THE TROOPS TN NORWAY. LONDON, Maj' 1. Newspaper dispatches from Stockholm report a naval battle in the Skagerrak near Skagen. Seven destroyers and five merchantmen were involved. A Beilin report says officials boasted that the German air force and naval patrols are daily and nightly keeping intact the lifeline of GO.OOO German troops in Norway. Allied warships, they deciare, have not broken through the Skagerrak. The officials admitted the loss of 11 “comparatively small transports and supply ships.’’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1940, Page 5
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