The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-22
BRITISH BLAST
GERMANY'S AIR
FERRY TO NORWAY
Continued From Page One)

oALeHSlVe last night and this morn
r ing.
. Planes, runways and buildings
were damaged, a communique from
the air ministry said. 1t added
that all of the large number of
} aircraft engaged in the operations
{ had returned safely to their bases,
, Control of the air became in.
~creasingly important as Britain
rushed troops across the North sea
to Norwegian landing points for
the decisive test which, observers
! predicted, would gather around
l Trondheim.
:, (Trondheim is almost 400 miles
northeast of Kristiansand and $50
miles northeast of Stavanger.)
Heavy Damage
A joint admiralty-war office com.
munique tonight said that Ger.
mans had caused heavy damage
yesterday at Namsos, Norway, but
that the only Allied loss was one
British trawler sunk. 1t said there
were mo casualties to Allied
troops"
The war office, beyond a non.
Icommittal communique, continued
Iclose-mouthed on actual operations
of the Allied expeditionary force.
The communique issued tonight
merely said:
"Operations in Norway are con
tinuing. British troops are operat.
ing in conjunction with Norwegian
forces"
This cooperation, according to
Stockholm reports, resulted in a
rapid overland advance that en-.
abled the Allies to retake Hamar in
a sharp encounter with German
troops.
(The Stockholm newspaper AT.
tonbladet received reports from
somewhere in Norway that Hamar,
90 miles north of Oslo, had been
recaptured Saturday night by Nor
wegian and British troops. (DNB,
German official news agency, re-
ported the Germans had reached
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CT Hamar.)
While bombs thundered down or
far away Scandinavian airfields
shells bursting over a town on
| England's southeast coast sent the
5000 residents scurrying for shell
ter and punched shrapnel holes in
t roofs.
; No Casualties
No casualties were reported in
the town and no bombs were drop
ped on land during the encounter
in which anti-aircraft batteries anC
naval guns fired on German planes
The raid lasted for three hours
last night and early today.
The gunfire, heaviest along the
: coast since the start of the war
made many think that the towr
| was being shelled from the sea
Among the roofs damaged was thai
of the police station.
Once during the raid a huge Ger
man bomber flew over the towr
with shells bursting around it.
No air raid warning was sound
ed. Several residents had narrow
escapes. An old fled to the
basement for shelter shortly before
a hole was blown in the roof Of
her house.
An air ministry communique or
the royal air force raids said:
"The offensive against enemy all
forces and air transportation serv'
ice operating against Norway has
been further developed during last
Saturday night and this morn
ing.
"Tn addition to the successful
attack on the German base at Aal'
borg in northern Denmark which
already was reported, the aircraft
of the Raj during last night
bombed airdromes now occupied by
the Germans at Kristiansand and
S~tavanger.
"It now is known that, in the
attack upon Aalborg, bombs were
dropped from a low height and
damage was caused to a hangar.
One aircraft, after dropping bombs,
attacked with m~achine-gun fire a
German transport aircraft which
was about to land at the base.
Fires also were started on the air
drome by other aircraft which fol-
lowed.
cat Kr~istiansand a number of
enemy aircraft were seen dispersed
on the airdrome and were attacked
with bombs.
I'm the case of Stavanger, bombs
were dropped, a number of which
we're seen to hit runways. The
burst of another bomb was followed
by an explosion on the airdrome.
Bombs also were dropped on a
seaplane base nearby.
"These attacks were carried out
by strong forces and all of the
large number of aircraft engaged
in the operations have returned
safely to their bases"
An unofficial account of the raid
said it was believed the British
filters had caused considerable
damage"
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