Evening star., 1940-04-13
Sweden
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at least briefly, when a bridge was
dynamited as the first bus crossed
a stream.
(The Exchange Telegraph to-
day quoted the Swedish radio as
reporting that the Norwegians
had blown up bridge at Askim,
south of Oslo, while German
troops were crossing it, killing a
great number.)
Refugees from the Holen region
reached Stockholm by automobile
today and said they had been ord
cred by Norwegian police to speed
for the Swedish frontier to keep
their motorcade from falling into
the hands of the advancing Ger
mans.
The Germans, however, were re-
ported harassed within Oslo when
Norwegians blew up a large dam at
nearby Solbergsfors and cut off the
city's electricity.
Norwegian sources said telephone
and telegraph lines linking Oslo and
Berlin also had been put out of
commission.
King Still Pursued.
The Stockholm newspaper Svenska
Dagbladet said German warplanes
still were pursuing King Haakon and
Crown Prince Olav from hiding
place to hiding place. Wherever
they stop, it said, air alarms soon
follow.
The present whereabouts of the
64-year-old monarch was not dis
closed, but the newspaper said he
had been forced close to the Nor
wegian-Swedish border.
The newspapers correspondent
said the King told him in highway
meeting, Il have not been out of my
boots and I have hardly had a
wink" since leaving Oslo Tuesday.
He reported, however, that King
Haakon still was in good spirits and
determined to stay in his country
"as long as one inch remains Nor
wegian."
One OF the Ministers accompany
ing the King told of a close escape
yesterday when, he said, four Ger
man bombs exploded near where
the monarch had thrown himself
into the snow. The Minister said
the German planes, apparently
skimming the treetops. aimed ma
chine-gun fire so close they seemed
to have recognized the King.
TrOndheim Situation Obscure,
Elsewhere there were no reports
of changes in the Norwegian situa-
ton with the Germans admittedly
holding the ports of Kristiansand
Stavanger, Bergen and Narvik. The
situation at Trondheim remained
obscured by military secrecy.
An uncon1rmed report to the
Stockholm newspaper Dagens Ny
heter said that all German war
ships at Narvik, including four
destroyers, had been sunk by Nor
wegian forces.
A search by Norwegians for five
German warships reported of
Trondheim was said to have been
fruitless, but two British destroyers
were seen at Namsos, to the north
According to the Stockholm news
paper Allehanda, British fighting
strength in that area also included
two British battleships, four cruisers
and two other destroyers together
with large numbers of aircraft.
(The British radio said last
night that a Norwegian high
conn and communique had
claimed control of the whole
country except for the occupied
ports.
Mobilization is proceeding" it
quoted the communique. 1.-The
influx of conscripts is over
whelming.D
NOrwegians Hold Elverum.
The correspondent of Dagens
Nyheter said the Norwegians still
held the ruins of Elverum, where
about SO persons were killed and 1OC
injured by German bombers.
Three hundred Germans were re-
ported en- route to Elverum, how
ever, by bus and automobile. Other
German motor troops were said to
have reached Skarnes, 10 miles
south Of Kongsvinger, where Nor
wegian volunteers returning from
the Finnish war were opposing the
advance.
Almost every highway in South
ern Norway was reported blocked al
bridges blasted to stop the German
troops.