In addition, the Alster (8,145. tons) has been captured, and three trawlers—Priesland, Nordland and Blan-
Kenburg—have been brought into a British port, All these ships are in addition to the six supply ships and the Ravens feld, carrying reserve ammunition to the landed German force at Narvik, which were sunk off Narvik by the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla on Wednesday last, as was announced in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
The following known scuttling have taken place, the G04-ton tanker Skagerrak (on being sighted by a [British cruiser), and the German ship Maine (on being sighted by the Nor. wegian destroyer Drang, which picked up some sixty of the crew and conveyed them to a British port). The Drang now forms part of the Allied naval. forces.
Tt has been reported that the German tanker Kattegat has been sunk' by the Norwegians in the Skager Rak. and an unknown German ship of about 4000 tons.
Tk will be noticed, the communique adds, that no mention is made of the which displaces 10.090 tons, proximately 27 per cent. of the total tonnage of the German fleet Havas Battleship Gneisenau Sunk Stockholm, Apr. 15.
Fairly conclusive evidence that the German warship sunk recently in the Oslo Fjord was the Gneisenau, one of the most powerful units in the Ger. man Fleet, and not the cruiser Blue: cher, is supplied by reports from Ber fiw that Admiral Carls and several navy and army officers of high rank cre forced 10 swim ashore alter the Men of this range would only command of 3 ait Also, the Norwegian claim that the been denied by Beri a communique last week, the Germans admitted the loss of the 10, loss of any U-boats. It would be incorrect, it asserts 10 assume that posi tive résulis have not been attained,
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