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During the past week, the Allied forces have withdrawn from central and southern Norway, and Germany has attained all or most of her objectives there. All along the contest has been a question of seizing and maintaining bases and lines of communications, and in this Germany has so far been completely successful.

has been able to maintain her communications with Oslo and from Oslo as her main base in Norway to establish communications with the ports on the west of Norway which Germany had previously seized. England has been unsuccessful by the use of her navy in intercepting these communications and has now withdrawn her troops from Nomsos and from undalsnese where she had attempted

to establish bases. In evaluating the campaign, one is impressed at once with the importance of air power and of the use by Germany of her air power in the campaign. By using her air power she made it impossible for Allied ships to intercept the communications from Germany to Oslo and made it impossible for the Allies to maintain the bases which

it say it seized at Nomsos and at Andar-Snez, and indeed almost completely destroyed these small towns and all the bases the Allies had attempted to establish there. Moreover, Germany has been successful in addition in destroying the communications which the Allies had attempted to establish between their coastal bases in Norway and the troops which

they sent to the aid of the Norwegians. And Germany has been successful with fleets of planes preceding their motorized units in attacking the small units of the Norwegians and the Allies in central Norway and having scattered them and driven them back, so that finally there was nothing else for the Allies to do except to withdraw. However, there is one