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...German flotilla included five destroyers of the Narvik class, mounting five 5.9-inch guns, and six of the smaller Elbing class, with four 4.1-inchers. As a force they outweighed the British but they showed little stomach for battle. After a running fight, in which the cruisers scored several hits, the Germans split into three sections and fled. The British picked out one group of four, standing northward, and ran out the chase until three were sunk and the fourth escaped in darkness...
Transport of war matériel will cease Aug. 15; traffic of furloughed men to & from Norway and the "horseshoe traffic" from Trondheim to Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force...
...this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest of Scandinavia, including Norway's port of Narvik. Said Ryti this week, when he was sworn in as the first President to succeed himself: "Finland longs for peace but we cannot see any signs...
...case of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenan, protecting fog and low ceilling foreseen by German meteorologists had prevented aerial interference. The establishment of outposts at Spitzbergen, lecland and Greenland primarily for weather forecasts was stressed as well as the early German occupation of the vital weather post of Narvik...
...beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...