Stockholm, Apr. 13.
ERMANY'S air force is now engaged in unrestricted bombing of Norwegian territory, it is understood here, No longer con~ centrating on military objectives alone, the German planes are bombing and machine-gunning roads, towns, and villages as they did in Poland and as the Soviet Russians did in Finland.
The main object of this is to break the moral resistance of the civilian population by the constant terror of air bombings.
Elverum, from where King Haakon narrowly escaped death yesterday, was bombed for three hours by German planes today and is now almost entirely destroyed.
German attacks on land near the town met with the unflinching resistance of the Norwegian.
Eidsvoll, south of Elverum, was also razed to the ground by German bombs.
'A fierce fight took place this morning at Askin, near the River Glomrien, where a bridge was blown up by the Norwegians just as a lorry filled with German troops was crossing. Several sections of the railway line leading out of Askim were destroyed, In south Norway, a battle has been vaging since last night near Holden, which is close to the Swedish border.
Most of the inhabitants of Holden have already Jett the town, and Jess than 1,300 motor cars' reached the Swedish border filled with evacuees from this town, Other reports, from neutral sources, revealed that Swedish fishermen turning from the Lysekil seaboard were compelled to sail through waters covered with a thick patch of el, in which floated scores of corpses, among whom was found a German saiter still alive, The all marked the burial round of the "German freighter Antares, sunk two days ago.
General Eriksen, in command, of the Norwegian forces in. the Oslo, area, has announced that all telephone and telegraph communications. with Germany have been cut off and the power station destroyed which makes It impossible for Oslo to receive any electricity for the city's lights
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