Narvik, June 4.
The important northern Norwegian port of Narvik, bustling pre-war shipping centre, today is a battered, desolate city, its harbour filled with the hulks of more than 30 ships and broken remnants of warehouses and wharves.
Incessant Allied bombardment of Narvik for 52 days, resulting in the final ousting of Nazi forces entrenched in the city, reduced Narvik to a shambles, retreating Germans.
Although Nazi planes have appear-ape: [ed over Narvik several times and have bombed the city with high ex-m Plosives since the Allied entered, few civilian casualties have been reported since May 31, when most of the noncombatants were hurriedly evacuated aboard British warships. Only a few hundred civilians now remain at Narvik.
Allied troops are now busy clearing their the harbour while other units are fighting in the mountains, attempting to drive the German forces across the Swedish frontier—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.