The Archive · 1940

To Narvik Region

Railway to Sweden Reported Still in Nazi Hands R.A.F. Raiding Enemy Positions

Stockholm, May 9.

IHREE or four German transport planes are rushing fresh troops and supplies. all day to north Norway, according to the "Svenska Dagbladet."

The newspaper says the Germans have landed parachute troops north of Bardu, 35 miles north-east of Narvik, in order to strike the Norwegian forces in the rear. German air activity, it declares, has increased further.

They are continually bombing the Allies, while small units of the Royal Air Force are raiding German positions at Narvik. The entire railway from Narvik to the Swedish frontier, the newspaper adds, is still in German hands,—Reuter.

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