Show r- r AZIS Will BE BLASTED FROM SEAS SEA f t A Y FREED I CHURCHill PLEDGES NAVAL BATTLE BAffLE CONTINUES AT BALTIC'S GATE Hitler Faces Fate Of Napoleon Declares Briton By SIDNEY J. J WILLIAMS LONDON April 11 UP UP- UP First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill declared Thursday that the sea battle still is raging and promised that German warships warship's warships warship's war war- shi ships ship's s would be blasted from the sea and nd allied con control es established established established es- es in Norway The battle from Denmark to the distant North sea shores Churchill told the house of commons has r resulted in great losses to the German navy Adolf Hitler has made as great greata a strategic and political error in Scandinavia as that which undermined undermined undermined under under- mined Napoleon Churchill fore- fore Cas least tast t. t Presents Dramatic Report In staccato headline fashion the d first the fa famous fa- fa as a teller story story told told lila his greatest story of war at sea and andIn andIn andin in the air unfolding the first chapter of t a conflict that may h have no no parallel Churchill said ald that while no Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- ports had yet been recaptured recaptured recaptured recap recap- from the Germans the allied fleets had no intention of permitting permitting permit permit- t ting the Germans to maintain communication communication com corn lines through the to Norway thus indicating that the strategy would be to sever the nazi lines at the south in preparation preparation preparation prepa prepa- ration for counterattacks in northern north north- em ern Norway Churchill disclosed in fighting the German Invasion of Norway since Sunday Four British destroyers IncludIng including ing two lost at Narvik had been sunk They Included the ton 1345 Glowworm and the ton 1870 Gur Cur kha Each had a normal crew of slightly under men The mighty ton British battleship Rodney was struck by bya a heavy nazi aerial bomb but her decks resisted it and only seven men were yere Injured Renown Routs Bouts Scharnhorst The ton British battle cruiser Renown fought and routed the German battleship Scharnhorst Scharnhorst Scharnhorst Scharn- Scharn 1 horst of tons and the German German German Ger- Ger man cruiser Admiral Hipper of tons in a dramatic battle north of Narvik Nanik Four German cruisers have be been n sunk The British destroyer Zulu sank sanka a German U-boat U off olf the Orkney islands and British submarines have taken a heavy toll toil of German German German Ger Ger- man transport and store ships crossing to Scandinavia About a dozen German merchant Con Continued on P Pig s Two Column n nT Two I Naval Battle BaUle Continues Off Norway Continued From Front Page One ships lips have been sunk or captured in n the and or r in the North North sea A number r of German destroyers together with some U-boats U have ave been destroyed by the allied naval aval and air forces British Occupy Danish Isles The Faroe Islands north of Scotland Scotland Scot- Scot land and and owned by Denmark arenow arenow are now ow being occupied by the British but jut will be returned later later- to Den Den- mark The Th question qu sUon of Iceland also Iso under the Danish king will willbe willbe willbe be given further consideration Two British cruisers were darn dam aged ged by nazi air attack but remained re re- re- re at at their stations and the British home fleet has been Deen continuously con con- fighting off German air along th the Norwegian coast while waves of ot British planes have participated in the counter-attacks counter on n the nazis Churchill warned that the naval fighting probably was only a a prelude prelude pre- pre lude ude to fierce war on land Prelude to Land War WarThe WarThe WarThe The very recklessness with which Hitler and his advisers cast castle the le fate late of the German navy upon the he wild waters may be bd only a prelude of far larger events which depend on land he said We Weave have ave probably arrived at the first crunch of ot the war He warned the neutrals that Gerany Germany Germany Ger- Ger many any was likely to strike again at atler ather ather her ler weak neighbors but promised that lat the allies would dom dominate nate Norway and tighten their blockade ot of f the reich as a result of ot extension extension exten- exten sion on of ot the war front We shall take what we we want of t this is Norwegian coast now Churchill said with enormous in increase increase increase in- in crease in the efficiency of ot our blockade We feel ready to encounter the utmost malice of the enemy and to achieve a victory In what is a world cause Emphasizes Sea Sea Battle He put special emphasis on the success of ot the allied forces in drivIng driving driving ing into the and the which ar are the narrow sea lanes leading to the Baltic sea Germany already already- lr ady- ady has ordered all merchant vessels out of of- this area and in this respect our advice advice advice ad ad- vice coi coincides with theirs he said declaring ng that Germanys Germany's supply lines to Norway would be severed in that area Our submarines have by no means been asleep They have taken a heavy toll of German transport and store ships crossing to Scandinavia We are not going to allow the en enemy my to supply their troops across those waters with impunity The ton British battle cruiser Renown was oft off the Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- port of Narvik on Tuesday morning and engaged the German battleship Scharnhorst of tons there Escape in Smoke Screen Churchill said that after nine minutes the British observed hison his hison hison J on the forward superstructure of the S the German cruiser Admiral Hipper drew a smoke screen a across ross ros's the Scharnhorst and both the Hipper and the Scharnhorst escaped On Wednesday there was a m most n st determined attack by bv two waves of ot royal air force planes of of 12 12 craft each cads which bombed German German German Ger Ger- Geri i man cruisers One of ot them he added has not teen peen seen since At dusk Wednesday the air arm of ot the British fleet from the Orkney Orkney Ork Ork- ney Islands ds attacked a German cruiser moored at Bergen in successions successions suc sue cessions of three and all made low- low bombing dives At daybreak Thursday the tor tor- carrying aircraft of the fleet attacked Germ German n shipping in th the Norwegian port of Trondheim Im Battle Still Progressing The naval battle Is still proceeding proceeding proceeding pro pro- Churchill said after explainIng explaining cx- cx ex ex- the widespread operations off oft Norway from the to Narvik Operations were widely dispersed dispersed dis dig persed Churchill said but nonetheless nonetheless nonetheless none none- there was general general- action between numerous German ships and aircraft and such forces as we were able to bring to bear He then gave some details of ot the battle between the Renown one of the worlds world's crack warships and L the year old Scharnhorst The British in commander had put out to sea from Scapa Flow on Sunday night when news was received from air reconnaIssance reconnaissance sance planes planes' that a German battle battle bat bat- tle tie cruiser and a number of other othel German cruisers were moving swiftly northward During the morning he said it looked as If it the enemy forc forces s 1 which had sunk the Glowworm would be caught between our oui forces in the north and the main mair 1 home fleet both of which were superior to it However they es es- es The Renown located the Scharnhorst Scharnhorst Scharnhorst Scharn Scharn- horst later Churchill said that for months we have received information of numerous German merchant erchant ships being fitted as troop transports and of numerous small vessels being assembled at Baltic ports and and- also at the mouth of the river Elbe But no one could tell when they would be used or against what peaceful countries they would be I used |