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London Calling

News & Public Service · April 9, 1940 · 14 min · 1,930 words

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This is London calling in the overseas service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. This bulletin includes news of allied laws since the German invasion of Norway and Sweden. Last night's meeting in London of the Supreme War Council, German threats to Sweden, a late report from Norway, an account of Mr. Chamberlain's statement to Parliament and comment on some

of the issues involved in today's news, by Mr. Vernon Bartlett. Here is the news. Shortly after midnight, the war of his announced in London that all leave from the British Expeditionary Pass and the Royal Air Force in France is stopped until further notice.

This is one more step in carrying out the Allied pledge to Norway to give her every help in fighting the German invaders. Already in fulfillment of their pledge, the petition French navies have been in action, and last night in London, next supreme war council met and decided on the full scope of the Allied reply to German's latest aggression.

Meanwhile, news is still awaited of the naval activity that has been going on near the Norwegian coast. Until the action is over and the Allied war ships have reported, no details can be made public.

So far, nothing is known, beyond the French report, that the ships are fighting in a storm and heavy seas. It is believed that it will not be more than a few hours now before an official statement is made. The only statement so far from the British Admiralty is that a Nile of a German claim to have hit and badly damaged by bombs to battleships

and to cruisers. The truth is, says the Admiralty, that now battleship has been damaged, but two cruisers received very slight damage from sprinters. The Germans, on the other hand, have last another ship. She is the 7000th-thon steamer Amasis, AMASIS of Hamburg, and she was torpedoed by British submarines to the afternoon in the Skokarak. The Amasis was carrying

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