NAMSOS EVACUATED
BY BRITISH AND NORWEGIAN TROOPS Withdrawal and Embarkation Without Loss DEPARTURE FOR UNDISCLOSED DESTINATION HOLD ON NORTHERN NORWAY RETAINED A British War Office communique reports that in accordance with the plan to withdraw from the immediate vicinity of Trondheim, Allied troops were re-embarked at Namsos on Thursday night. The withdrawal and embarkation were carried out with complete success and without loss. Counter-attacks by German troops on Wednesday and fhuisday were repulsed, many enemy dead being left in fiont of our positions and prisoners taken by the Allied troops. It is stated that in the withdrawal of British troops, all the Norwegian troops which the Norwegian High Command could spare were taken to be employed in other areas. It is not yet known where they have gone with the British forces. Northern Norway is still held by the Norwegians and the Germans are far from getting their hands on the iron ore (the product of the Swedish northern mines for which Narvik is * the chief outlet) which was the principal objective of their costly invasion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 5
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176NAMSOS EVACUATED Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 5
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