The Archive · 1940

Refugees Elated

Stockholm, May 30.

Norwegian refugees here today' were elated over news of the capture of Narvik, northern Norwegian port, by British troops on Tuesday and hailed it as the first important blow Jagainst the Germans in the entire: northern region.

Military experts here believed the German troops near Narvik must now cither fight to the finish at their positions on the northern shores of Rom bake Fjord, between Nygard and Bjornfjell, or cross the frontier into Sweden, where they would be imme-

Swedish officials declared the capture of Narvik itself was only of Himited importance, since the final} Issue in the Scandinavian campaign will be decided along the railway in the immediate areas on both sides of Rombaks Fjord as far as Bjornfjell—United Press. organic part of the state in 1903. Therefore, international law experts said, King Leopold cannot. alienate it to Chancellor Adolf Hitler or anyone else—United Press.

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