RAID ON NORWAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 4

RAID ON NORWAY

BY COMBINED BRITISH FORCES OPERATION ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL. DIRECTED MAINLY AGAINST SHIPPING. LONDON, December 28. There has been a small-scale British raid on Norway. A communique just issued by the Admiralty states that the raid, directed mainly against enemy shipping, was carried out this afternoon by combined forces of the Royal Navy, the Army and Air Force. The operation was entirely successful and all our ships returned fit for further immediate service. A further communique will be issued as soon as details are available.

GERMAN REPORT DESTROYER ALLEGEDLY SUNK (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 28. A German communique states that British naval forces on December 27 attempted a sudden attack on two remote points off the Norwegian coast. Landing parties were driven back, after short and violent fighting with local Army forces, and finally withdrew to their ships. German bombers sank a destroyer of the fleeing naval unit and damaged a cruiser and another destroyer. Ten British bombers were shot down. A German plane then went down in a fight against superior fire from a British cruiser and several destroyers. The British sank a few Norwegian merchant ships engaged in peaceful coastal shipping. A German news agency account of the affair says British warships- appeared at several points on the northern Norwegian coast and carried out landing and nuisance raids on several small islands far from the main centres of coastal, defence.