GERMANS TRAPPED IN NARVIK
ALLIES’ STEADY ADVANCE
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 21. Heavy fighting in Norway appears to be developing, firstly in the Northern Trondheim area, to which the Allied forces, according to unofficial reports, are advancing from the landing point at Namsos. The Germans are desperately attempting to rush reinforcements to this area by air and are fortifying outlying points.
Secondly, the fighting is developing in the vicinity of Hamar and on the shores of Lake Mjosen in the vicinity of which Norwegian forces are established. Unconfirmed reports say that the Allies have reached the Hamar area from the landing points at Molde and Andalsnes in llomsdal Fiord by advancing by road and rail along the line of Gubrandals Valley. The Germans in the Narvik area are virtually trapped and the successive hammer blows by the R.A.F. and the Fleet on the German bases in Southern Norway are making their situation serious
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 8
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