EXPEDITION TO NORWAY

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23971, 11 June 1943, Page 5

EXPEDITION TO NORWAY

BRITISH FISHING VESSEL (Rec. 10 p.in.) LONDON, June 10. The Norwegian Telegraph News Agency quotes the Berlin newspaper, “Allgememe Zeitung" for a story of a daring expedition carried out by 12 men who landed at a strongly-pro-tected Norwegian port from the British fishing vessel Barholm. The account says that the Barholm, under the command of a man known as Sigurd Eskesund, left England under the Norwegian flag with a cargo of machine-guns and hand-grenades hidden in herring barrels and fish boxes. There was also a wireless transmitter, which the Norwegian-speaking crew intended to establish in Norway. The Barholm hoisted the German flag and docked in a well-protected bay. The 12 men, wearing civilian clothes, went ashore and visited a number of persons in the district, and apparently tried to establish useful connexions. As the men were attempting to leave the bay a German warship opened fire against the fishing vessel, and sank it. German boats picked up the crew. The newspaper gives no details of time and place, but the agency says ‘that Swedish newspaper reports allege that the incident happened recently.