NORWEGIAN COMMAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 5

NORWEGIAN COMMAND

HEADQUARTERS IN NEW REGION REPLY TO EXAGGERATED ENEMY CLAIMS. NO ALLIED EQUIPMENT ABANDONED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY. May 3. There is no fresh news today from Narvik, where British troops are closing in on the German forces. it is revealed that the Government of Norway is still in being in Norway. The Norwegian' Commander-in-Chief, who has been directing the Norwegian troops in the south, has transferred his headquarters to another region. The fact that the Germans were unable Io interfere with the embarkation of Allied troops is regarded here as indicating that they must have received a rough handling from the troops, who had been marching and fighting for a fortnight. German claims to have captured “inestimable” quantities of war materials are obviously very much exaggerated. It is generally known that the supply of artillery and tanks to support the troops was limited, owing to difficulties of landing in improvised ports. There is no ground for a fear that the Allies had to abandon equipment. ,

The lack of interference from the air with the withdrawal from Andalsnes may be due to the bombing of German air bases by the R.A.F.. but it is believed that the Germans arc again using Trondheim Aerodrome.