The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-16
SWEDEN HEARS | OF SEA BATTLE
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Stockholm, Sweden, April 16- CUP)-German troops fired at Swed- ish policemen on the Norwegian Swedish frontier, a Stockhold news paper reported today.
 German attachments, advancing along a railroad bridge, reached the swedish frontier at p. m. yesterday, the newspaper, the Dagens Nyheter, said, and were halted by Swedish border police.
 The Germans fired machine guns at the policemen, the newspaper said, but hit none of them.
 Swedish soldiers went to the aid of the policemen and, it was said, shouted at the Germans: Are you at war with Sweden?"
 The Germans ceased fire and apologized, the newspaper said.
 German troops, driving toward the Swedish frontier all through south eastern Norwegian area, were re- ported today to have forced the Nor wegians from the key town of Kongsvinger, 45 miles northeast of Oslo and only 15 miles from the frontier.
 Abandon One Town
 The Swedish official news agency asserted that the Norwegians aban- doned Kongsvinger, which had been an army headquarters, last night and that German troops were expected to arrive today, to find deserted town.
 The Norwegians abandoned the town only after violent fighting yes- terday, during the course of which railroad communication betwe n Kongsvinger and Sweden had been severed, the agency reported.
 The NorWegians had made stub- born but vain stand on line one mile west of the town.
 Press dispatches from the frontier east of Trondheim reported fighting in progress at thetown of Hagra, between Norwegian troops and Ger mans who went inland on the rail- road line between Trondheim and Storlein, on the Swedish side of the border. It was reported that the NorWegians had formed a defense line about five miles east of the town of Hell, near Hagra.
 Resistance Holds
 The Germans had not succeeded in breaking down Norwegian resist ance in the Trondheim- Hell sector, the dispatches said, and Norwegian losses so far had been surprisingly small. Nothing was known of Ger man losses.
 Stockholm picked up broadcast by radio Oslo, now under German control, that Mai Vidkun Quisling, head of the puppet regime set up by the Germans at Oslo, had been supplanted by Ingolf Blister Chris jensen, 68. Like Quisling, he had once been Norwegian defense minis ter.
 Before the broadcast, reliable German quarters at Stockholm had told the United Press that German authorities had approved certain changes in the cabinet" in an at tempt to reach a satisfactorily agree ment" with King Haakon of Norway. | cuAoAA1E, qudl DpAN, WoS to become "chief of demobilization" in Norwegian areas under German control.
 First German Demands
 German and Norwegian forces had been fighting for more than four hours when Germany presented de- mands to the Norwegian government that it accept German protection, the Norwegians charged today in formal statement on "the German attack on Norway"
 The statement, approximating diplomatic white book" said that the German demands were present. ed to Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht at a. m. last Tuesday, but that German warships had entered to Oslo-fjord about midnight and that at 12:45 a. m. report was received of the warships and Norwegian bat teries exchanging fire. Other Ger man warships had arrived at west coast points, it was said.
 After detailing German demands and negotia tionsh, which ended in Norway's decision to fight, the state ment ended:
 "The barbaric war which German authorities in this way continued had compelled the Norwegian gov ernment to keep secret the name of the place where it may be.
 But resistance has continued and the government has received assur- ances of military help from the al- lied western powers.
 'The Norwegian government be- two countries it will succeed in sav- lives that by cooperation with the ing Norway for the Norwegian people,"
 The German minister told Koht that the allies intended to occupy Narvik and other Norwegian points, the statement said, and that there fore Germany had begun certain military operations to occupy strate- gically important places" and thereafter would take over the de- fense of Norway against Britain and France"
 Norway, the minister said, was not strong enough to resist the allies and would not do so anyway, according to the statement.
 Braeur, the minister, then pre- sented note containing 13 demands including that the Norwegian army cooperate with the German army, that Notifications be turned over to German trops, that mine fields should be disclosed, that all con- munications should be controlled by the Germans, that mail of all Baltic countries must be censored by Ger many, that newspapers and the ra- dio be put under German censor ship, and that all proclamations and orders of German authorities must be published immediately, it was said.
 Koht said that the Norwegian government as a whole would have