The Archive · 1940

Navigation Warning

London, Apr. 16.

The official German wireless last evening repeatedly broadcast an "important navigation warning." "It must be reckoned," it said, "that all lights and beacons on the southern coast of Sweden will be extinguish-Reuter.

Many foreign observers believed MI Vidkun Quisling, head of the pro-Nazi Norwegian party, was the "anchor man" in German operations before the actual invasion of Norway.

These observers pointed out that obviously the invasion had been planned carefully since neutral reports claimed that German troops had been in Norwegian ports for more than a week concealed in German freighters and merchant ships, —United Press,

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