Show NORSE RETAKE BERGEN SAYS ARMY REPORT Norwegian Units Prepare for Trondheim Drive I By THOMAS F F. F HAWKINS S STOCKHOLM T 0 C K HOLM April 11 AP Norwegian AP-Norwegian Norwegian forces have recaptured the port of Bergen from the German invaders the Norwegian commander at the I city reported Thursday by wireless and are re massing foran for foran foran an attempt to wrest Trond- Trond heim helm farther up the west coast from the enemy German troops are being concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- around Trondheim in the expectation that the Norwegian attack attack attack at at- tack will come shortly he reported Norwegian troops were said to be advancing from the north in the hope of cutting off oU German troops operating between Trondheim and the Swedish border Drop Light Bombs w Following the command commands commanders s 's re r report re- re port on Bergen other s ces re re- pd ported ted German d r light bombs as th they y circled the th Kongsvinger railway station j-i j J r Reports pouring into Sv Swed h said the Norwegians were ing bridges to make mak German advances advances advances ad ad- vances difficult jand and cut cut- cutoff cut off German German German Ger Ger- man forces alre already dy in possession of Norwegian territory Norway ordering her troops to cooperate with the French British-French allies alles was hastily fortifying every defense point and arming workers members of rifle clubs and military school pupils to help defend the nation Six or Eight Sunk From southern Sweden came further reports of the Ger British man naval engagement fought off Paternoster reefs at the eastern end of ot the Wednesday saying that six or eight German troop transports had been sunk Part of those which escaped headed headed headed head head- ed on north toward Norway and the others turned south The Norwegian government said German troops trying to advance toward Elverum the temporary seat of government had been re repelled repelled re- re at about half way up the railway line from Oslo The captured capitals capital's outer fortresses still are in Norwegian hands the government reported an assertion borne out by reports of continued firing against German German German Ger Ger- man forces in Oslo fjor fjord Germans Turned Back Between Elverum and Hamar another contingent of German troops commanded by the former aviation of the German legation gation l in Oslo was turned back backby backby backby by hastily armed civilians who manned m machine guns at barricades barricades barri barn cades thrown up on the highway Norwegians said the nazis apparently apparently intended to capture members of parliament and the government by surprise A German advance eastward from Narvik northern Norwegian port has been repulsed it was re re- re- re ported |