The Archive · 1941

Mayor of Narvik Makes His Escape

Colonel O. Broch, a member of

Norwegian Military Mission in London, telis me that he has received a letter from his son, Mr. Theodor Broch. the former Mayor of Narvik.

The letter was postmarked Chi-cage. Mr. Broch had reached the Middle West in the course of a lecture tour. He is describing to American audiences. his first-hand experience of the battle for the strategic iron ore port and his own dramatic escape from Narvik after he had been sentenced to death by General Eduard Dietl, Mr, Broch crossed into Sweden and travelled to the U.S.A. via Russia and Japan—three-quarters of the way round the globe.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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