Word: narvik
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...That U. S. correspondents on the scene in England generally credit any military information which the Government gives out with reservations about what may not be revealed; that the British press often jumps hopefully to unwarranted conclusions from spare official announcements. (Example: that Narvik had been occupied because British ships had sunk all the German destroyers there...
...Allied siege of the iron-ore port of Narvik appeared to have been stalled by snowstorms. The War Office said there was "nothing to report" from that Norwegian battlefront...
...smothering blizzard delayed the Allies' mopping-up around Narvik last week. As advertised in advance (to give all who wished a chance to leave), British warships lying in Ofot Fjord shelled the town systematically. This fire discomfited the German troops-perhaps 1,000-who remained dug in there. But new, hip-deep snow impeded the encircling and climbing movements of Allied troops sent to dislodge and cut off 1,000 more Germans entrenched on Rombak heights, southeast of the town. An Allied column for this purpose was landed at Fagenes, in Beisfjord to the south. Norwegians plodded eastward through...
...Cross nurses) in Berlin's Sportspalast, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels recited a two-day score as follows: two British cruisers sunk, two heavily damaged, a battleship damaged, a heavy destroyer and a submarine sunk, a large transport bombed with severe loss of life near Narvik. Preceding and succeeding Nazi claims would have accounted for 61 units of the British Fleet in the past fortnight. Of this list, the British admitted losing only four destroyers and one submarine...
...battle at Elverum, a siege at Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...