"British troops are many," he said "and their number is increasing daily."
The correspondent learn that British troops who drove of the Germans were lining the road from Steinkjer, a key point in the Nor. wegian defences, German troop had been landed by destroyers in the north part of Trondhiem Fjord, It is reported that during a German air raid on a Norwegian harbour on April 21, a British ship brought down three of nine bombers by anti-aircraft fire, Wandering later through the deserted streets of Grong, the corr pondent met a Norwegian soldier who, on being asked if there were any British troops in the neighbourhood, entered the car and directed the journalist to a remote farmhouse, There in the flickering light of an oil lamp in a Norwegian house, was the first meeting with a British officer attached to the British Expeditionary Force, Things were going very well indeed, he said, "but this persistent bombing and machine-gunning is the devil." The day before, he said, he had been in Namsos, and German planes had been over continuously from 10 am, until 6 pin, The town had been badly smashed and was blazing furiously in mary places, There had been few casualties, however, and as far as he knew, no loss of life among British troops, Soldiers and civilians alike Were being machine-gunned, he said, in furious air attacks on all roads, villages and towns in the district.—
Reuter,
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