Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamburg-American liner St. Louis last week duplicated the Bremen's feat of eluding the British blockade, slipping safely down through Norwegian coastal waters into the Baltic and "a home port," from Murmansk. The 8,000-ton Johannlschulte, one of 16 other German refugees at Murmansk, was less lucky. In a blizzard and raging sea somewhere off Trondheim, she lost her propeller, foundered. Her crew of 36 was rescued by the Norwegian Queen Maud...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...
...Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port of Narvik (now subject to the Allied blockade...
...swooped down from the hillsides on skis, began potting them from the woods with machine guns. It took little of this to convince the Russians that they had gone too far from base. Their trucks and tanks, which last fortnight had rolled in a steady stream southward along the Norwegian border, last week rolled less steadily northward. With the Finns harassing their flanks and rear, this retreat soon turned into a flight...