The Archive · 1940

Germans Said Rushing Troops

Railway to Sweden Reported Still in Nazi

Hands; RAF.

Raiding Enemy Positions Stockholm, May 9. (THREE or four German transport planes are rushing fresh troops and supplies all day to north Norway, according 1o 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' po: ions at Narvik. The entire railway from Narvik to the Swedish frontier, the newspaper adds, is still'in German hands,—Reuter.

Paris, May 9.

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