NARVIK FIGHTING
Successful Allied Use Of Tanks RETREAT BY GERMANS Bj' Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, May 15. A Norwegian communique emphasizes the successful Allied employment of tanks for the first time in the Narvik sector. It adds that the Germans are suffering from lack of artillery. South from Narvik the Germans were prevented from gaining footholds at Momjosen. A French officer in the Bjcrvik district declared that after the arrival of the French troops the Germans retreated a kilometre a day.
A Stockholm message says many German air bases in Norway are reported to have been destroyed as the result of Tegular nightly bombings by the Roydl Air Force.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 198, 17 May 1940, Page 10
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