The Archive · 1940

PULITZER PRIZE PLAY

That played to packed houses on Broadway for more than a year $4.40 top. in Good Positions Somewhere in Norway, May 23.

Lieut.-Col. Roscher Nielsen, commanding the Norwegian troops on the Helgeland front, some 180 miles south of Narvik, stated last night that the German advance had been brought to a standstill.

Norwegian and Allied forces, he added, were now established in good positions after a series of strategic movements carried out with minimum loss. Col Nielsen said heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Germans.

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