South Side of Narvik Fjord Capture^
SWEDES FIRED ON STOCKHOLM. May 21. Radio reports state that a PolisV unit has captured the south side cf Narvik Fjord. Refugees from central Norway say that the Germans have captured Mo. A Norwegian communique says that on Sunday there was fighting on the Ofoten front north of the entrance to Ofoten Fjord, the small fjord in which Narvik is situated, where German troops have taken up new fortified positions. The Norwegians have been engaged in ceaseless fighting. The Swedish Legation in Berlin is protesting against an air attack on a Swedish railway station east of Narvik in which one person was killed. A German plane opened machine-gun fir* I when 50 people were on the platform. Northern Swedish air units have been ' reinforced since the attack.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 8
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