SPITZBERGEN OCCUPIED
SUCCESSFUL ALLIED RAID NO ENEMY OPPOSITION. COAL MINES OBJECTIVE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, September 9. An important and successful raid has been carried out by an Allied force on the Norwegian dependency of Spitzbergen in the Arctic Ocean. An announcement by the War Office yesterday stated: ‘‘For various purposes it was recently decided to send a military force to the ArcticIn the course of the operations, which were carried out without enemy interference, a landing was effected oh Spitzbergen by a mixed Canadian, British and Norwegian force under Canadian command. “The main purpose of the landing was to prevent the enemy from utilising for their own war purposes Spitsbergen with its rich coal mines. Previously a proportion of the Spitzbergen coal has been at the disposal of the population of northern Norway. hut it had become known, that th«; enemy’s plan was to seize all the coal available, including that from Spitzbergen, which would be used mainly for war transport to the far north.
“This source of fuel has now been denied to the Germans.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLX, Issue 14839, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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