Eye-Witness Narrates Story of Capture In Norway, May 14.
In the half light of early dawn this morning, an eye-witness watched from the foretop of a flagship the naval bombardment and capture of Bjervik, on the Herpang Fjord, just north of Narvik.
"Under the cover of the guns of our warships," he said, "French troops landed and stormed the snow-clad heights with dash and precision in face of machine-gun and rifle fire. French tanks, landed by the British Navy, supported the attack from the right. Machine-gun nests in the town were systematically blotted out "Gunfire from Norwegian batteries could be heard as they engaged the retreating enemy. Local peasants, whose houses had been carefully avoided during the bombardment When they were not occupied by the y, assembled to greet the rapidly vancing French troops.
As the advance progressed inland. the French tricolour, which had been flown behind, was hauled down, and the flagship steamed slowly out of the fjord."—Reuter.
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