RAID ON NORWAY
LANDING FROM TORPEDO BOAT NORWEGIAN VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATE. HARBOUR WORKS & FACTORY DESTROYED. <By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) STOCKHOLM, April 14. British troops landed on Saturday from a torpedo-boat at an undisclosed port in north Norway and destroyed a fish meal factory. Norwegian volunteers participated. The raiding party also machinegunned the house of a prominent Quislingite. It is understood, the B.E.C. reports, that the raid was made by a Norwegian warship under Norwegian command, but acting with the consent of the Admiralty. Troops were landed and harbour works, a factory and other military objectives destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1941, Page 5
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