GERMAN REHEARSAL
RESISTING INVASION COASTS OF NORWAY ;<e.3o a.m.) LONDON, June 29. The Vichy News Agency says the Germans are rehearsing the repelling of' landings in Oslo Fiord with the object of seeing whether the fortress on the east shore is able to resist a surprise naval attack. The news agency adds .that the coast from Narvik to Denmark is in a state of emergency. The German land and air forces in Denmark have been considerably reinforced. An emergency battalion of policemen, numbering 480 men, has been dispatched to Oslo and new re- / inforcements of the police forces have been recruited at Stavanger, Bergen. Trondheim, Tromso and Kirkenes, which have received fresh detachments of 120 men each. Moreover, a detcahment of mounted police has been despatched .to Bergen. These reports, it. is stated in London, must - be read in conjunction with the increasing unrest of late in the ranks of Norwegian police which some time ago led to a purge by .the Quisling authorities;
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 3
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