The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-15
Narvik Stormed And
 Captured By British
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 London. April 15-(UP)- Great Britain's armed forces landed at several points in Norway the admiralty and war office said today after week of powerful naval and aerial Scandinavia British expeditonary force well as sailors marines believed to have participated in the Norwegian coastal operations which were protected by the British navy and Royal Rlr Force
 Exact Number Is Kept Secret
 Neither the exact number of landings nor the points of operation specified in the 10word official com muniuue but it generally believed that the Norwegian port of Trondhe with it's wide deep fiord and its rail road communications to the south and east was one o1 the principal centers of concentration Another was 1e where the British said they wrecked seven German destroy on Saturday. and others may be Bergen Namsos or AndalsneS.
 Official British COmmunique
 British forces have now landed at several points in Norway"
 The arrival of armed Allied forces in Norway to fight German military attachments attempting to spread out from coastal and from Oslo to the Swedish frontier coincided with British claims of success in sashng at Nazi communication lines to the north.
 Developments Up to Present
 l. An admiralty communique saying that two ad- dtional German transports apparently had been sunk by British submarines making total of 26 transport arl- munition and supply ships the Allies claimed to have been sunk since the Naz invasion of Norway The Allies also claim to have sunk nine German warshlps and sad SIX others reported sunk The Nazi pocket batteshlp Admiral Scheer reported orpedoed and damaged by British submarine.
 British Planes Raid Stavanger
 g. An air ministry communique saying that British planes again had rade dStavanger the coast dropping ncenary and high explosive bombs which the British said believed to have exploded ammunton stores.
 North German Coast Barred
 B. A statement that the British had mined the Baltic sea from the Kattegat to Lithuana thus laying mine barrier along North German coast These mining oper- atos believed to have been carried out unde great difficulties that may have lessened their effectiveness
 Landing Is Called Hazardous
 Naval and military sources said that the landings on Norways rugged coast in the face of possible German position were regarded hazardous although It dd not arpear that the British forces faced any enemy ire Greatest speculation centered on possible landing at Trondhein which lies 250 miles north of Oslo and is only 50 miles the Swedish frontier The Ger last weekend had reported that their units at Trond- holm had been reinforced and that heavy artillery had been transported there
 75 Miles from Trondheim
 The port of Namsos however only 75 miles north of Trondhe and British warshps had been reported very ac tive off that part of the coast last weekend. Thus 1t believed landing might have been made at Nasos as preliminary to both land and sea attack on Trondhem
 British Are Jublant Again
 Britons already jubilant the assertions of the ad nraty that Britain had scored important naval VctOreS over Germany Scandinavian waters at once suggested that the comunique meant that the navy must be in con- trol not only of Narvik but of other points, They sug gesed also that the fact that the comunique was issued Jointly with the war office meant that British army units and marines who under admiralty command. Well nf0rned