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...Norwegian military headquarters admitted that Hamar and Elverum in central Norway remain firmly in German hands. Previous unconfirmed reports had said that British-Norwegian forces had recaptured the towns...
Flight of Haakon. But King Haakon, his Ministers, his Parliament and diplomatic corps, were elusive. After their train had been halted two hours at Kjeller while German planes bombed the nearby airport, they reached the little provincial town of Hamar. Hotels were requisitioned, Government officials in ski clothes sloshed about unpacking crates of documents left in the slushy streets, Parliament convened in the theatre, King and Council met in the theatre's restaurant. The King was dressed in a field uniform, but General Laake, Commander of the Norse Army, had on a black overcoat and derby. He had been...
Wednesday, Elverum became Norway's Lexington (Mass.). When the German flying wedge that had scared the Government out of Hamar rolled up to Elverum, their busses were stopped by a barricade of overturned autos...
Wham! banged a rifle. Wham! Wham! The Minute Men of Elverum offered Norway's first interior resistance. Some of the Germans ran into the woods. The busses turned and fled. The Germans fell back south of Hamar and all over Norway hearts rose, resistance hardened...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...