The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-15

(COnClnueo rom Page D victim was Capt. Eberhard Spiller of Olso where they claimed Nor 10.
 Other newspapers said the war in Norway would be no "child's play" but that German forces were still holding an improving their posi- tions in both Norway and Denmark.
 The DNB agency reported from Oslo that German troops took 300 prisoners, seven cannon and large number of rifles and other munitions in the fighting southeast of Oslo where htey claimed Nor- Wegtan resistance was broken. Headlines announced that the Bri- tish had been "annihilatingly re- pulsed" in naval raid on Narvik Saturday, but there was no denial of British reports that seven Ger man destroyers had been sunk In Narvik Harbor. The high command said the British had attacked Mar vik with two battleships, aircraft carriers, cruiser and many destroy CTS. Its communique did not men, ton the outcome of the battle but the newspapers Der Montag and Montagspost said it was a big Ger man victory.
 Afternoon newspapers protested that British sailors had fired with rifles and machine guns on unharm- ed German seamen struggling in the wate!: in Narvik Harbor. The newspapers did not explain how the Germans got in the water and no German ship losses were reported, but the Zwoelf Uhr Blatt said, we Germans will not forget this case. Some day there will come a reckon ing. We will demand expiation--a hard, bitter expiatioa."
 NaZi Victories Recorded
 Victories claimed officially over the weekend Were:-
 An attack on the British destroyer Cossack at Narvik by German air. planes, which set it afire and later ran 1t ashore.
 The torpedoing of a British cruis- CT of the Glasgow class by a u-boat North of the Shetland Islands;
 The destruction of three Allied submarines in the Skagerrak;
 The destruction or damaging of the British destroyer Eskimo and several other deStroyers;
 An advance by German troops in the Oslo region; the capture of Sarpsborg and Askim and the sur- render of 1,500 Norwegian soldiers and several hundred officers at Heidstadtmoen.
 The high command said British airplanes had bombed Stavanger and Bergen Saturday and declared that Bergen was an open city.
 | Comment On Bombing
 Der Montag, commenting on the Bergen bombing, said:
 "The English air ministry and highest British government quarters already have been sufficiently in- formed by recent German state- mentS about the bombing of 8 rail- road station in Schleswig- Holstein, what consequences may follow from us if the English make themselves guilty of bombing civil populations. ''
 The German admiralty announced that new areas had been mined in the great and little belts off Den mark and elsewhere in the Baltic Authorized quarters said this an- nouncement did not refer to the areas of the Baltic the British have claimed to have mined, but that the German mines had been laid to pre- vent penetration Of the Baltic by British submarines or surface craft
 Change Of Newspapers Sunday newspapers had charged that since the Allies attempt to ex- tend the theater of war to Scandin- avia had been thwarted, they now were turning to Holland and South. eastern Europe. The press campaign concerning Holland and the Balkans was similar to that which preceded the invasion of Norway and Den. mark. Diplomatic and political cor respondence, foreign office organ said: "Today. More than ever, they (the neutrals) must determine theil policies on the basis of the fact thai the Western powers are determinec to shove aside their neutrality at tht moment that seems opportune fol their political and military aims"
 The official news agency announc' ed that important coastal points ir Jutland Denmark had been occupied and fortified by Germans; that heavy artillery had been set up al some places and that the demobiliz' ation of the Danish army already had begun.
 It charged that in Saturdays bat tie at Narvik, the British had firet on German llnarmed sailors strug' gling in the water. Several Germans were killed, 1t was said.