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Show w I I :mui o) fu . loj 0) VI )H1 : I )r II uj ,' l - J - a i I, Vi' L J i.i, . ir--" -- -i HjLi ii r J U i FIGHT RAGES OFF COAST OF NORWAY According to a news dispatch The European war came to neutral Norway with smashing sudden, ness, as the British Navy only a Tow hours after sowing in trim In the Norwegian territorial water, wat-er, fired two torpedoes i"'o a Ge-man transport just 'o. t' :iiil 5 off the southeast coast. - Of 500 German infantrymen, cavalrymen and airmen aboard, 300 were killed and drowned. All of SO horses on the ship also were lost. Heartened by the British navy's powerful thrust, the Norwegians themselves wer0 reported by Swedish newspapers to have wip-eded wip-eded out some Gorman units attempting att-empting to take Klverum, village 75 miles north of Oslo, to which place the Norwegian govcrment finally fled when the capitol was occupied., by the Germans. Hundreds of German dead wore reported left on the field after a force of Norwegian soldiers, aided aid-ed by hastily armed volunteers, struck back at the invaders. The shooting up of roe German, convoy was seen from Pasterno. saer reefs, n ear the island of of Marstrand, where the arm of the North sea, the Skagorrak, meets an arm of the Baltic, the Kattegat. They said two of the big tran. sports went down. Other reports said a destroyer also was sunk. BRITISH NAVY THREATEN TO SHELL OSLO l'anie-strirkeii residents of Oslo, the Norwegian capitol occupied but Tuesday by the Germans, fied by every available conveyance convey-ance yesterday after British warships where reported to have forced the roekey Oslo fjord and threatened to bombard the ci(y unless it was surrendered within with-in a few hours by its nazi lenders The British, said delayed news dispatches reaching hero by way of the Swcdish-Nowegian frontier front-ier town of Charlottenberg, threatened to start shelling the town at 1:00p.m., yesterday, but whether the bombardment actually act-ually took place was not known. BRITISH LOSB THREE DESTROTERS According to another news dis. patch, the German? claimed the destruction of three British destroyers des-troyers in the battle at Narvik, Norway, and also conceded the loss of two big crniscrs to the fire of Norwegian coastal gun |