The Archive · 1940

British Demanding Oslo

Stockholm, Apr. 11.

British warships have penetrated into Oslo Fjord and threatened to bombard Oslo unless it is surrendered by a certain time, according to reports from Charlottenburg, on the Swedish-Norwegian frontier. The inhabitants of the capital are said to have hastily evacuated the city—Reuter.

British Take Bergen, Trondheim Amsterdam, Apr. 11.

German forces were driven from the important Norwegian ports of Bergen and Trondheim and British landing parties occupied the cities yesterday, the Stockholm radio said in a broadcast intercepted here last night, British warships were in the Oslo Fjord opposite Oslo last night the radio said. The civilian population of Oslo was in a panic, the radio đe-clared, and the evacuation of the city was underway.

The radio said it was believed the British had fixed a time limit for the Germans to leave Oslo, after which the city would be shelled—United Press,

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