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Mourned the 67-year-old sovereign three days later: "Since I left Oslo Tuesday I have not taken off my shoes and have hardly slept. All civilization seems to have come to an end. I cannot understand how such terrible things can happen...
...them were, like himself, Austrians - skilled mountain fighters (jager) at home on skis, practiced in the guerrilla type of warfare waged so effectively by the Finns in rough, forested country. At least one division was motorized, and Correspondent Stowe, who scored world beats reporting their landings along the Oslo Fjord, told of seeing field artillery...
...people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers in their retreat, down from rural hills and valleys came farmers, woodsmen, householders, carrying rifles they had learned to shoot during the brief Army training which every Norseman receives...
Campaign. The Germans consolidated inside a wavering defense ring which the rallying Norwegians now threw around Oslo. Newly arrived Germans easily broke through this ring and, while earlier arrivals moved north and west, started methodically subjugating Norway's southeast cor ner. If the Allied sea blockade should prove effective, they might have to breach Swedish neutrality and bring up reinforce ments by rail from Malmö or Hälsingborg...
From towns along that rail spur, came word of a strong Norwegian mobilization, to cooperate with the Allies should they strike for Trondheim and the main rail line south to Oslo...