The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29
Allied Armies Block
 Nazi Forward Drive
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passed Kvikne but its fate was un- certain thereafter.
 RoeroS front-the main advance up the Oester Valley had put the Germans north of Roeros where they met some opposition and where Norwegian troops destroyed bridges through the narrow mountain pass toward Trondheim. For the time be- ing, this Nazi column seemed to have been blocked north of Roeros. In addition to the five military fingers gripping south-central Nor way, the Germans held Trandheim and positions of both allied and Nazi forces in that sector remained unchanged.
 There also appeared to be little change in the situation at the northern port of Narvik where the allied troops reported they had en- circled the Germans.
 Both sides continued to send rein forcements and supplies to the bat tie fronts, but it was difficult to de- termine which was moving more rapidly.
 Trucks Rush Supplies
 London, April 29 - CUP) - Hun dreds of Allied trucks are carrying supplies to the Namsos front in Norway, and the woods in the area are filled with Allied soldiers who are consolidating their positions, Daily Mail correspondent reported today.
 Men, supplies and airplanes are now reaching the Allied base in quantity, the correspondent, Ralph Hewins, reported in dispatch from Allied headquarters.
 He said that German airplanes had done frightful damage in the Namsos area, but that the base was still operating and was protected ade- quately.
 The correspondent said he inter- viewed Gen. Adrian Carton De- Wiart, the Allied commander in- chief. Carton De Wiart was quoted as saying:
 We are on the alert day and night. We are lucky if we get four hours rest in 24."
 Carton De Wiart said that Allied troop positions had been bombed necessarily at Namsos and at Steinkjer, where British troops met the Germans.
 HeWins quoted the commander as saying that his men were excellent ly equipped with brand new mater ial prepared for an Allied expedi- ton to Finland. The commander said also that on arrival his men left in snow for three or four nights without complaint.
 British troops, who arrived first now are better billeted in barns, Hewins reported, and adequately equipped.
 A British major who spent 2 1-2 years in Flanders during the World War told HewinS he had experience ed nothing like conditions in Nor- way but added:
 Tn the last few days we have had support in the air. Now we have fighters and the Germans fly at 5000 feet instead of 400 or 500. We feel comparatively safe. Our men were taken aback at first, but they stuck it out superbly."
 Claims of Britain
 London, April 29-(UP) - Assert ing that three additional German supply ships had been torpeoded and sunk, the admiralty today issued a blanket denial of German claims of severe damage to British war ships and supply ships in Scandina- via.
 The sinking of the three German supply ships brought to 31 the num- Der of enemy supply and transport ships which the British claim to have sunk in the Norwegian cam paign. This total included eight sunk at Narvik.
 The admiralty admitted that the British trawler Hammond had been sunk by German airplane bombs and that the naval trawler Larwood had been set afire by an incendiary bomb. Adding that there had been no casualties on either trawler, the admiralty said:
 There is not the slightest truth in the claim of the German high command to have sunk or severely damaged in the past 48 hours five cruisers and 13 transports. In fact the enemy's determined effort to ender waters along the Norwegian coasts untenable have been attended with but slight results"
 xr,oc %I1o |laroo transports whose sinking the admir- atty claimed, had been torpedoed within the past 48 hours.