The sound of heavy shell fire and the sight of bursting bombs Wednesday morning and again at noon the same day, indicated that a large-scale running air and sea battle was taking place off the coast of Norway, according to reports reaching here last night, Inhabitants of the town of Malloey, north of Bergen, Norway, said that on Wednesday the battle had moved close enough to the coast for the firing to be heard from the shore and observers could make out definitely that the' war vessels were British The planes darting into view over: the ships could not be clearly seen and their nationality could not be established. A few. scattered German planes which were downed in the region were believed to have been participants tu the battle, It was believed that four Germans, whose plane landed at Listra, Norway, and five others picked up after landing in other parts of Norway, were among the combatants—United Press.
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