Charles Edison, announced today that the 9,400-ton cruiser USS. Vincennes and the destroyers Truxtun and Sampson were on their way to Lisbon, Portugal, "to protect American interests, but not to convoy any merchantmen.
Mr, Edison said the three warships would join the three-vessel American squadron which has been maintained in neutral European waters since the outbreak of the war—
United Press.
Relieving Pressure British Aghters, bombers and recon naissance airerait have been doing their utmost. to relieve enemy pres sure on Allied armies in France, Aeclares the Ministry of Air.
On Monday, it states, waves of medium bombers repeatedly attacked eud und rail communications in areas Immediately behind the German armies.
'On 'Monday night, heavy bombers attacked military' objectives at Dusseldorf, Dusberg, Dortmund, Ham~ burg, Bremen and Cologne. All aircraft-are claimed to have returned nately, One bomber shot down an enemy scout over Holland, 'British fighters carried ' out con-Ainuous patrols" in north-eastern France yesterday under adverse weather conditions. Reports hitherto Indicate that 22 German planes were destroyed or damaged yesterd 'On' Monday morning Stavanger aerodrome was again bombed, and aircraft on the aerodrome subjected to heavy machinegun fire. In the Narvik area, eight German alreratt wore destroyed or damaged by RAF. fighters. From all these operations 15 British aircraft failed to return, this morning that Narvile was captured by Allied forces and that Fagernes and Forsneset also are in our hands."
Germans Admit Capture Berlin, May 29.
While the German Army steadily cut its way through Flanders and northern France, British forces on the Scandinavian front broke through battered German defences and cap~ tured Narvik yesterday, the German High Command disclosed.
British forces around Narvik, supported by many warships and planes, [captured the ore railway leading into the oily and entered the important Norwegian port from the north, the Germans admitted. One of the British warships was hit by German bombs and ceased firing, it was stated.—United Press.
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