The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-17
German Air F orce Has
Struck British Navy
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OSLO and continued It's advance
northward," the communique said.
I'm the Trondeim region, German
troops reached the Swedish border
and occupied the railway at Meraak-
er.
Several Norwegian torpedo boats
were put into German service"
The transport ship in the North
Sea was hit by bomb of the high
est caliber, the communique said.
The official news agency asserted
meanwhile that British naval forces
had bombarded the port and city q
Narvik again yesterday evening, but
it said that reports from London
claiming that Narvik was occupied
by British troops and that Germans
had retreated toward the Swedish
frontier are devoid of any founda-
ton.
German troops operating in the
Narvik region are in permanent
communication with German COM
mands in Norway" the news agency
said.
An authorized source said the Ger
man command in Norway was COM
piling lists Of Norwegian prisoners
to be published for the information
of Norwegian citizens.
Another Admission
The press said that British troops
might have landed at Harstad, on
an island off the coast from Narvik,
but that if they had they were still
separated from German troops by
two fjords and that continued snow
and cold weather there made troop
movements unlikely.
The high command said that "the
general situation in Norway yester-
day was consolidated by the arrival
of further troop reinforcements
the German navy secured the trans
portation of men and material to
Norwegian harbors. Coastal batteries
were made ready for action In sys-
tematic building up of coastal de-
lenses.
around Stavanger the enemy at
tempted new air attacks during the
night of April Is but succeeded in
causing no military damage. Ger
man troops in the region of Kris
tiansand took over two additional
Norwegian batteries. Expansion of
the German control of Oslo contin-
ued. Railway communication was
established between Oslo, Frederik-
stad, Halden and Kornsjoe on the
Swedish frontier"
1t said that one German plane
failed to return from the air fight
over the southwest Norwegian coast
in which the two British planes re-
portedly we're shot down.
Still Hold Narvik
Authorized quarters said Germans
still held Narvik and deprecated re-
ports of British landing as "un-
important" The official news agency
said the British probably" were at
Harstad, on one of the Hinnoy group
of islands. The island is separated
from the mainland peninsula by
Rombaken ford, and between the
peninsula and Narvik is Ofoten ford.
The peninsula is wooded highland,
cut into by deep valleys. The heights
range up to 5000 feet.
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zietung
said that even assuming the British
took Narvik, the port loses impor-
lance as an ore harbor with the ad-
vancing season, since our ships take
the shorter Baltic route in the sum-
mer, and since there are ways and
means to see to it that If necessary
not another ton Of ore reached
Narvik."
The ore shipped from Narvik
comes from the mines of Arctic
Sweden.
Diplomatic and Political Core
spondence, semi official foreign Office
organ, meanwhile advised the United
States to judge European events with
discretion.
Comment ON Roosevelt
Commenting upon President
Roosevelt's attack on aggressors, the
agency said:
"Only by claiming benefit of the
statute of limitations could Roose-
welt deny that land grabbing and
building up of the American state
was carried out in the form pilloried
by him. Historic truth shows just
the contrary right up to the last
century. The truth is that warlike
excursions on water and land first
made 1t possible for America to find
It's international order which is rec
ognized today, and thereby put an
end in particular to those dreams
of empire which England had
brought to life on the American
continent. :. The satisfaction which
fills the American state and their
leaders on these grounds should be
sufficient reason for the latter to
treat matters abroad with greater
reserve, also with greater discretion
than was shown in a certain docu-
ment only recently"
German White Book
(The document mentioned was
believed to have been the German
white book issued two weeks ago, In
which 1t was charged that documents
seized at Warsaw contained reports
from the Polish ambassador at
washington, quoting william @. Bull
lit, now American ambassador to
France, that the United States
would "flnish" in any European war
on the side Of the allies).
The official news agency said Ger