RAID BY NAVY
LANDING ON NORWEGIAN ISLAND FOLLOWING A BOMBARDMENT. GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 5. A communique issued by the Admiralty announces that the Royal Navy yesterday carried out a raid \on the Lofoten Islands covering the entrance to the fiord leading to Narvik, Norway. The raid was successful. The German news agency says the raid was made with light naval forces which landed soldiers on the islands after the bombardment. Some Germans were taken prisoner and a number of Norwegian fishermen taken off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1941, Page 5
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88RAID BY NAVY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1941, Page 5
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