Stockholm, May 8.
It is reported that the Germans have mined Narvik harbour. The mines, it is understood, were dropped by planes.
The Norwegian troops continued to hold their own against the invading German army, inflicting heavy losses, and either seriously slowing up or stopping German attempts to push throughout their lines. The German battalion which on Monday passed through Roeros to join their vanguards has been almost completely annihilated by the isolated Norwegian troops who are still putting up desperate resistance to the German advance through the Gau Valley, it was reliably learned.
The Norwegian High Command announced through the Norsk Telegram-byre that German troops, contrary to reports, have not occupied Mosjoen and Mo in the Rana region, nor have Norwegian troops crossed the Swedish frontier in the Gandalan Valley near Majavatte, The sixth Norwegian division is contesting desperately the advance of the German forces northward from Namsos. The roads have been blocked, and the Nazis are now halted outside the town of Mo, near the Rana Fjord.—Havas.
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