Stockholm, May 8.
ORWEGIAN troops continued resisting the German advance from Roeros to join the Germans driving southward from Stoeren at noon yesterday as Norwegian troops refused to lay down their arms for an armistice, Swedish press reports said here yesterday. The intended armis in the Trondelag district was made impossible by their refusal to discard their arms.
The greater part of a battalion was destroyed in the narrow. mountain pass of Aalen, 20 miles north of Roeros while the remainder of the battalion took refuge in the mountains, Norwegian sources declared, The "Stockholm Aftenbladet" reported from the Norwegian border that German troops occupied the Lillebo customs house, less than a mile from Flootningen, yesterday. Regular Norwegian customs men, however, were reported to have continued work.
The newspaper reported that 9 group of Norwegian refugees, who cossed the mountains into southern Lapland on Monday, said heavy fight. ing was progressing in the Nordland district, where the sixth Norwegian division was offering strong resistance against the Germans advancing north. ward from Namsos.
'A few narrow roads In the Nord-land distriey were reported to have been blocked and the Germans were said to have advanced no farther than the district south of Mo—United Press, Allies Reinforced at Narvik.
London, May 7.
Allied troops have landed at Narvik during the past few days and. Norwegian forces are now advancing. northward to join them, the British Brondensling Company announced to-lay.
Eneirclement operations by ° the: British troops of the Germans still the town were continuing favourably, the broadcast continued, adding thata number of German posts had been attacked and many of them re-
Skinmishes took place between Roeros and Stoeren, where the enemy suffered some losses. Tt was added that no German ship has been able to force its way into Narvik, tightly mined and blockaded by the Allied announced today that passenger vessel Folden was bombed und machine-gunned without warning by a German plane yesterday. Several passengers were Wounded during the attack, There is no confirmation here of the report circulating in Stockholm that Swedish steamer was sunk today by a British submarine. According to the report, the Swedish vessel Monark, displacing 1,786 tons, was on her way to Stavanger when torpedoed. Tt was specified that the vessel had been previously seized by the Germans and hada German crew on board.
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