On June 14, all Norwegian papers were compelled to print editorials suggesting the King and Government had abandoned Norway, and there fore 'a new. government should. be formed (0 take over the legislative powers and legalize the German ocfeupation," he said, *Since' then, the Presidential Board of the Storting hss met, and it was this body which asked the King and Government to step down. Normally, this body has six members, but only. four remained in the occupied territory. The Conservative party appointed a fifty member quite illegally, fand thus st was that five names were found to ask the King to abdicate, "Since the invaders were obliged to drop Quisting, after he had been in power' for only three days, they have been trying to find some' other puppet regime that would "ive a som-lance of legality to their occupation, and rule of the country, according 10 German desires.
"But they will find it extremely aimeult 10 depose the King and Gov ernment. The Constitution says that in times of war, the Sovereign may be absent from the country inde-Gnitely, if need be, without losing hix Constitutional. powers, "The King has been absent only chided M, Koht.—Reuter, Former Me S.V.C. Decorated London, July 9.
The exploit for which 'Lieutenant Norman Bradbury, of Reuter's Ace counts Department, who was a mem= ber of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps when stationed in Shanghai, was last Week awarded the Military' Cross recorded in following terms ina War Office announcement:
Lieutenant Bradbury displayed great coolness and courage in" com= mand of his four-gun troop in several occasions Detween May 22 and June 2, when subjected to enemy' sheitfire.
Particularly on June 1 and 2 at a Dunkirk dockyard, when. his guns were repeatedly subjected to shell fire and low bombing attacks, he was, iting in his. effort His troop accounted for 22 known planes—Reuter.
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