THE GERMAN STORY.
LAND AND SEA. OPERATIONS. Received April 20, 10.5 a.m. BERLIN, April 19. A communique states that German .fighters attacked enemy naval units and transports which were preparing to land north of Narvik and sank an enemy submarine by bombs. Reinforcements are strengthening our position at Trondheim, where no actions are oc curring. Our troops have extended the area occupied around Bergen and Stavanger. They have also occupied the area south-west of Oslo to as far as Sweden. They have captured 83 guns, 80 ma-chine-guns, 30,000 shells and a million rounds of machine-gun ammunition. The German navy has continued chasing submarines in the Skaggerak and the Kattegat, and has probably destroyed three. Defence measures for the protection of Norwegian forts and shutting off the Skaggerak arc progressing. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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