NARVIK FALLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 127, 30 May 1940, Page 8

NARVIK FALLS.

IN ALLIED HANDS

Loss Of Centre Admitted Bv

Germany

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In Norway tlie Allies, snp]>oi - ted by numerous warships, landed on the iron-ore railway and penetrated into Narvik from the north, says a Horlin communique.

.\ joint !!riti-h Admiralty and War Ollice statement says iuforinat ion lias been received that Narvik has been captured by Allied troops. Fajrernes and Forsneset. in the same region, are also in Allied hands.

British naval forces are reported to have s(i»ik seven (lertnan transports in Narvik niters in the past three days. The Al>'d force of liomliinu and fighter aircraft lias increased at Narvik.

A report from ( >t lioiiluirir. Sweden. ,-iiv- (Icnnaii troops who were landed from aeroplaiifs advanced ill small limits across the Hombnks Fiord at Narvik in an effort to outflank the Allied troops. Jlritisli warships |>entrnti'il deep into the tiiird. bombarding tin- (k-rnian positions 011 tlie Ofoten railway. Tin? Swedish .steamer Torsten (1204 ton.-) struck a mine and sank inside Swedish territorial waters near Cotlienlitir^r.