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EARLY FALL OF NARVIK PREDICTION MADE IN SWEDEN GERMAN COMMANDER SLIPS AWAY TROMSO APPARENTLY EVACUATED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received May 2, 2.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 1. Swedish sources predict that Narvik will fall to the Allies within a week. The Allies are not making any such definite promises. German sympathizers in Sweden are suggesting that the German forces at Narvik have fulfilled their purpose which was claimed to be the distraction of the Allies while other positions were consolidated in southern Norway. The Germans have apparently evacuated Tromso. The Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter says the Allies have also driven the Germans from Gratangen, midway between Tromso and Narvik, inflicting heavy losses, and that Allied aeroplanes damaged a large number of German aeroplanes at Narvik.
Refugees reaching Sweden say that the German commander at Narvik has slipped away, leaving the remaining Germans under the command of subalterns. Provisions have run very low.
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Southland Times, Issue 24115, 2 May 1940, Page 8
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154LATE NEWS Southland Times, Issue 24115, 2 May 1940, Page 8
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