NORWAY DECLARES WILL JOIN ALLIES.
FIGHT GERMANY.
Foreign Minister Makes War Announcement.
NEGOTIATION REFUSED
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(Received 2 p.m.) STOCKHOLM. April 11. Professor Koht, Norwegian Foreign Minister, broadcasting, said: "We are at war with Germany. Consequently we are the ally of all countries lighting Germany." M. Hainbro, Norwegian politician, declared that Norway offeree! to negotiate if the Germans stopped hostilities, but the German Minister replied that Germany "s action developed automatically.
Aγ. Hambro added that 20IM1 Germans were lauded by "plane at the Oslo civil aerodrome.
Norwegian 'pi »n°s at the southern base were withdrawn before the German attack. Stores of petrol, oil anrf grain were successfully removed.
The director of the Oslo wireless station has arrived at Stockholm. He declared that the followers of Major Quisling, Ku/.i loader in Norway, and not German troops, first occupied the Oslo station. He added that King Haakon's appeal t<. fight against the Germans wa* a big success throughout Norway. Troops were assembling at many points.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 8
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