Stockholm, Apr. 24.
Swedish seamen who have just arrived from Narvik denied the reports that the town is a mass of ruins, in an interview published in the "Aftonbladet." They declared: "Only two or three houses in Narvik have been damaged. The British warships, which bombarded the town, went to work displaying every consideration for the civilian population."
The seamen added that as far as they knew, not one civilian was killed during the bombardment, The British, they declared, had not actually been in the town. The nearest they had been was when a warship's boat approached the quay, but was forced to turn back under German machine-gun fire.—Reuter.
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