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STOCKHOLM--British and Norwegian troops have surrounded 3500 Germans in a "final assault" on the iron ore port of Narvik, a Norwegian spokesman claimed tonight, and the jaws of another trap were reported closing on German-held Trondheim...
...Within a few days the entire Narvik region should be ours again," said the authorized Norwegian military spokesman in describing furious fighting in the full-force attack to wrest Narvik from the Germans...
...North it was a different story. Not only was Narvik soon out of German control - and the road to the vital nearby Swedish ore fields - but the railhead at Namsos on a fjord 55 miles north of Trondheim was not held. From it runs a rail spur down to Hell, near middle Norway's only landing field of military size...
Although this sounded like defiance of Germany, Premier Hansson was playing a cagey game with a bad hand. His hand was strengthened before the week was out by the British capture of Narvik. If Britain establishes a strong force there, Germany will have to think twice before invading Sweden. It is only 84 miles from Narvik to the Swedish iron mines at Kiruna, 125 miles to the mines at Gällivare, and Britons could probably reach the mines before the Germans. But Premier Hansson had still other problems. For what he mortally fears is that Sweden may become...
Also on the scene of the invasion was U. P.'s Peter C. Rhodes, who had been sent to the iron-ore port of Narvik, witnessed the German landing, then got across the Swedish border to report it from Abisko, 40 miles away. Not so lucky was Giles Romilly, correspondent for the London Daily Express, also in Narvik. A British subject, nephew by marriage of Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Correspondent Romilly was clapped under arrest, kept prisoner in the Hotel Royal, while the Nazi press made fun of him in Germany...