The Archive · 1940

British Navy Retakes Bergen

Goteborg, Apr. 12.

It is confirmed that Bergen has been recaptured by the British fleet. The city's radio station was still in German hands this morning and was broadcasting information of German origin. Norwegian soldiers are engaged in a stiff fight with German troops, aided by 2,000 Norwegian sailors.

Here in Goteborg, eighteen German ships were visited by the Swedish authorities who pronounced themselves satisfied with this controL—Havas, (Continued on page 12, col. 2)

British planes bombed a small rail road station in Schleswig-Hoestein, the official German D.N.B. news agency announced today. Bombs dropped by the British planes damaged a nearby sports field and shattered windows in the vicinity, the agency said, The raid marked the "first time enemy planes attacked a German communications point, D.N.B. said.

Germán forces repelled all British attempts to dislodge the Germans from their positions on the Norwegian coast.

"Near Trondheim more Norwegian coastal fortifications were taken over and put in a state of preparedness. Near Oslo German troops of octupá- tion steadily enlarged the area of

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