DESTROYER LEAVES FOR NEWPORT, R. I. U. S. S. Roe Ends Three-Daj Visit And Continues Shakedown Cruise The U. S. S. Roe, visiting her< since Monday afternoon, left short ly after 3 o’clock yesterday after noon for Newport, R. I., as a con tinuation of its shakedown cruise. The ship was docked at the Southeastern Ship-ping service vharf at the foot of Castle treet during its three day stay here. The Roe made Wilmington its first port ot call while on its shake down cruise from the Charleston, S. C., navy yard under the auspices Oi the Propeller Club of the United Stats, Port of Wilmington. Officers of the destroyer were entertained at a dinner dance Mon day night and a stag dinner Tues day night at the Cape Fear Coun try club. Special entertainment fea tures were also provided for mem bers of the crewr. GERMANY CLAIMS THRUST MADE IN ‘NICK OF TIME’ (Continued From Page One) naval and air actions in the Skag errak, the Kattegat and the North sea. DNB reported in a special bulle tin that the German army at Ber gen, Norway, had captured five British ships loaded with war sup plies, including cannon, machine guns and munitions. The German press and official dom seized upon this report as evi dence of a British plan to attack Germany from Norway and com plete justification for Germany’s thrust to the north. “If German troops had not gone up there in the nick of time and in imposing force,” authorized sources said, "the English would be there now and Germany would be worrying about the defense of her northern border.” The British ships were sent to Bergen ahead of time, DNB said, under the guise of “aid for Fin land.” The agency asserted the supplies were to have been used by a British expeditionary force which was supposed to occupy Ber Kind New Planes Germans also said that soldiers who occupied Oslo found 50 new American Curtiss planes which they said would be studied closely for any possible information on construction. (American sources said between "30 and 50" Curtiss pursuit planes were shipped to Norway in the last few weeks for the Norwegian air force but were of an old design.) General, little-broken German si lence on the air and sea was attri buted to the demands on military secrecy. "To divulge all details now would of course be giving valuable information to the enemy,” DNB observed. However, the agency earlier said German naval forces Wednesday night sank two Allied destroyers at ■ the west fjord approach to Narvik, bringing to six the total sunk there j ar.d followed with the report that j an aircraft carrier had been dam age: in the North sea. (Britain has acknowledged the loss of four destroyers in naval warfare off Norway since the be- j ginning of the week, two of them j at- Narvik.) Amid the reluctance to say much ! on actions at sea and in the skies the Germans nevertheless declared that additional German soldiers were being transported to Norway ■in a movement they insisted was being carried out without hindrance by the enemy. (Swedish reports on the contrary said six or eight German transports had been sunk in the Skagerrak and one had fled into a Swedish harbor but had been turned away.) Germany has reopened the bridges over the Vistula river de stroyed by bombing early in. the Polish war. I- , BRITISH SINK 18 GERMAN VESSELS (Continued From Page One) of such operations. One of these reports said British warships appeared to be landing men from outer Os lofjord; others told of con tinued naval action at Trond heim, in the Skagerrak and elsewhere. For the time be ing, the reports were ac cepted with reserve by neu tral observers. Road To “Victory” To Churchill, first lord of the admiralty and director of strategy of all the British armed services, the navy’s feats of the last two days “are worthy of any in our history” and have put the Allies on the high road to “victory.” This he pugnaci ously proclaimed to a wildly excited house of commons to day. Th ic v>of iavi /-* /-> wi paring the heavy German sea losses with a total of four sunken British destroy ers, was willing to believe him. Churchill’s statement of British naval victories since Sunday, while not precise in details, nevertheless gave Britain this general compari son of battle results: German losses: — Four cruisers (presumably includ ing the Bluecher and Karls ruhe, sunk by Norwegian guns, and two hit by air bombs. This is nearly half of Germany’s cruiser strength.) “A number of destroyers” (one is known to have been torpedoed at Narvik.) “Several” U-boats (one, destroyed by H. M. S. Zulu, mentioned specifically). “Nearly a dozen” troop and supply ships, sunk or cap tured in the Skagerrak and Kattegat gateways to the Baltic, in the North Sea or in the Norwegian ore port of Narvik. Damaged: — The battle ship Scharnhorst. British Losses British losses:—Destroyer Glowworm, sunk by two Ger man destroyers. Destroyer Gurkha, sunk by aerial bombs. Destroyers Hunter and Hardy, lost in battle of Nar vik Wednesday (Churchill did not mention these, but the admiralty has conceded their loss). Damaged: Battleship Rod ney, battle cruiser Renown, cruiser Aurora, and at least two destroyers. Today Germany broadcast a claim that its bombers had badly damaged a British air craft carrier and a cruiser in the North Sea and that two more British destroyers, or a total of six, had been sunk at Narvik. Standing against this, unconfirm ed here, were radio reports that a naval battlo between German and k§S British fleet units was raging at Trondheim, Norway; that German transports forced aground during last night’s battle in the Skagerrak were blazing fiercely; that 1,000 bodies were floating in the waters off Sweden, from as many as six sunk en German transports. These re ports likewise were not confirmed here. Neutral naval sources said tonight that four nazi cruisers alone would have carried 2,250 men, and esti mated that total German casualties might well exceed 5,000. On the other hand, British casual ties were thought to be well below 1,000. When the Gurkha was sunk, for instance, all but fourteen men were rescued. Churchill’s hour-long statement, packed with proud accounts of Brit ish sea glories, among them the fight of the Renown and the Scharn horst, also told the world: Rodney In Battle That the mighty, 33,900-ton Rod ney, flagship of the home fleet, al though hit by a heavy bomb, suffer ed but little loss and seven casual ties and is in line of battle tonight. That the navy has occupied the Faroe islands, about 250 miles north of the British naval base of Scapa Flow, and will give them back to Denmark when that naiton is freed *-«■ um a uj LUUl UUajUDlU, That “we shall take what we want” of Norway's coast when the fleet has accomplished its foremost object, total destruction of nazi sea power. That the fleet’s own planes, “the fleet air arm,” launching flying tor pedoes, and planes of the R. A. F. have returned nazi air offensive “blow for blow,” after five German bomb attacks on the British battle fleet which Church admitted the nazis pressed with "courage.” Twelve Royal Air Force planes, the first lord said, attacked two German light cruisers in Bergen harbor, hit one and “we have not seen anything of her since.” A second foray, carried out by six teen naval planes in Bergen Road stead, resulted in three hits on Ger man war vessels and later, scout planes skimming over the scene of attack found only a long streak of oil on the surface. Other fleet air arm units smashed at German warcraft in Trondheim harbor with aerial torpedoes. Norway Resists That Norway’s defenders are cap able of "vigorous and prolonged re sistance” to the Germans, although their country and Denmark have “drawn the unlucky numbers in this sinister lottery” of “long and elabor ate” preparation by Hitler. Churchill, fairly fresh and at the peak of his oratorical powers despite three sleepless days in an admiralty map room, thrilled the house, jam med with members and diplomats, with his account of the running fight Og.,VUU*CtJIl XJilllSlI UctlLlC cruiser Renown and the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst. The Renown, which mounts six 15-inch gunB, "engaged the enemy at 18,000 yards,” he said, in a blinding snowstorm. It is believed to have scored two hits, one forward of the super-structure. His tired voice rising, Churchill related how the battle cruiser pur sued the slightly faster Scharnhorst, which mounts nine 11-inch guns, and he regretfully concluded that the German battleship, shielded by a smokescreen from a German cruiser, escaped in the stormy seas. This took place on Tuesday, at daybreak, near Narvik, in the far North sea. Churchill, as if he had been on the Renown’s bridge himself related: "They, (the Scharnhorst and the German cruiser of the 10,00-ton Hip per class) were seen in the distance, dimly, amidst the snowstorms of a tempestuous day. The sea was run ning very high and gales were blow ing furiously, but our battle cruiser opened fire at 18,000 yards and after three minutes the enemy replied. "The enemy almost immediately fC turned away and after nine minutes the Renown observed hits forward of the superstructure of the German battleship. “Thereafter her whole armory stopped firing but later, after hav ing turned, she began firing under local control. The speed which the battleship maintained was very great, and Renown had to push to 24 knots through very heavy seas breaking over her forward gun tur rets, and after a further two min utes of firing, a vertical column of smoke from what they called a pos sible second hit was observed in the Scharnhorst, who then turned away and retired at high speed without hampering herself by further firing. "During this period a shell passed through our vessel at about the waterline without bursting. A second shell went through the foremast and carried away the main aerial. There were no casualties in Renown. “The 10,000-ton cruiser of the Hip per class now tried to cross Scharn horst. Hipper threw a smokescreen to cover Scharnhorst and Renown opened fire upon Hipper, which turned away and both ships retired it high speed, Hipper dodging the fire which became intermittent, “You must imagine that all the time, snowstorms were closing the view and the sea was running very high. In the end we must regret to say that they succeeded in leav ing us.’’ LIST OF ELECTION REGISTRARS AND JUDGES ANNOUNCED (Continued From Page One) street; Mrs. J. B. Williamson, 15 ^outh Eighth street; Mrs. R. S. Me Keithan, 13 South Eighth street; Miss Frances Eiden, 609 Ann street. FOURTH WARD, Tileston school, Fifth and Ann streets; L. G. Le Gwin, 419 South Fifth; P. W. Bethea, 216 South Third; S. M. Creech, 508 South Second. FIFTH WARD, first precinct, fire station, Fifth and Castle streets; Mrs. H. F. Watters, 215 Queen; K. S. Mallard, 709 South Eighth; A. E. Milburn, 416 Castle. FIFTH WARD, second precinct, William Hooper school, 410 Meares street; F. D. Steljes, 214 Meares street; H. U. Herren, 1112 South Fourth street; J. C. Bordeaux, 1223 South Third. SIXTH WARD, first precinct,' New Hanover High school, 1307 Market street; Edwin C. Hines, 208 North Seventeenth; B. K. Myers, 107 North Thirteenth; W. A. Wylie, 1403 Rankin street. SIXTH WARD, second precinct; fire station, Seventeenth and Dock streets; J. H. Womble, 10 Wrights ville avenue; J. R. Fisher, 1920 Perry avenue; Miss Sarah Brad shaw, 1820 Perry avenue. CAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP, Wrightsboro school; Mrs. J. A. Westbrook, C. L. Ritter and Mrs. Eugene Savage. HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Winter Fark precinct; H. O. Thomas, Mrs. Janet High and Mrs. C. M. Waldorf. HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Seagate precinct, Seagate school; Mrs. Hilda Green, Mrs. Martha Walton and Liston Larkins. HARNETT TOWNSHIP, Seven mile post, Ogden filling station; G. T. Shepard, R. C. Murray, Mrs. Alice Wagamon. HARNETT TOWNSHIP, East Wilmington precinct; Forest Hill school building; J. Herbert Johnson, Mrs. Parham Jones and Mrs. Hazel Glidwell. MASONBORO TOWNSHIP, Masonboro precinct, Lumsden oyster roast; Mrs. Rebecca Lumsden, P. K. Montford. MASONBORO TOWNSHIP, Sun set Park precinct, Sunset Park school; Mrs. D. G. Wylie, 904 Cen tral boulevard; David Lewis, Sunset Park; Mrs. M. A. Bordeaux, Sunset Park. FEDERAL POINT TOWNSHIP, Carolina Beach school building; Otto Nielsen, Rider Lewis and Donald Sullivan. Survivors Of British Destroyer Are Landed LONDON, April 12.--(Friday)—UP) —Survivors of the British destroy er Gurkha, sunk in the North sea by the power-diving German bomb ers, w'ere landed yesterday in a north Scottish port. Fourteen of th" crew went down with the ship. The rescued crewmen said their gunners kept firing at wave upon wave of the German attackers until the decks of the ship were awash. Seventy German prisoners also were landed under strong guard. CING HAAKON FLEES BEFORE NAZI RAID (Continued From Page One) )f Oslo, and cannonading muld be heard. A naval battle between British and German forces outside the port of Trond heim was reported by the Norwegian radio at Olesund. British planes attacked German warships in Trond heimfjord. Norwegian minutemen, some of them armed with nothing but shotguns, ral lied to the defense of the na tion. They were reported to have retaken the port of! Bergen, arrested the com mander of the fortress of Kongsvinger, near the Swed ish border and defeated Ger man forces before Elverum. The volunteers who ar rested the Kongsvinger com mander just had returned from Finland, where they fought the Russians. Elverum was bombed sev eral times during Thursday. Two persons were killed, many hurt and numerous buildings were set afire by incendiary bombs. Three planes raided the town during the morning. In the afternoon, nine planes carried out attacks in sev eral waves, dropping both explosive and incendiary bombs. Kongsvinger also was bombed. German and Norwegian troops were fighting at sev eral points west of Kongs vinger, and at Eidsvold, half way between Oslo and Ha mar. The Germans, however, were masters of the major portion of the railway be tween Oslo and Kongsvinger. Heavy detonations were heard tonight from the di rection of Kongsvinger. Twenty persons were hurt at El verum, and the population still was fleeing early today. Norwegian sources said Elverum was an “open town’* without fort resses. Major Hoch-Nielsen. the com mander of the Kongsvinger fort ress, was seized by the Norwegian volunteers when he refused to give them arms. The volunteers then helped themselves to the equipment they needed. Earlier, Major Hoch-Nielsen had released the German prize crew taken last autumn from the Amer ican steamer, City of Flint, upon orders from the German military command. Overalled workers. untrained peasants, rifle club members and nilitary school cadets responded to :he government's call to join the British Allies against the Nazis, rhey took to the field with what weapons were at hand, hastily fortifying every possible defense point not in German hands. A late afternoon radio report Erom the Norwegian commander at Bergen said his forces had retaken the city from the invaders and were massing for an attempt to recapture Trondheim, farther up the west coast. Subsequent advices reaching Stock holm said Bergen was in Nor wegian hands but that t)-e , resses at the entrance ,, bor still were held by the r-t„ The Bergen commander ^ th invaders were mass---,' 11 forces around Trondheim. From the north, troops were advancing in the hope of cutting off" troops operating between J?** heim and the Swedish horde. * Th Norwegians were *rjl. methodically blasting ori make German advances *.. 11 and to cut off Nazi forces . in possession of Non-.. tory. ■ lllllllllttl‘«lllllt«>lllllltlllllllllllllMI I tin.^ SCHENLEY Black Label 65% grain neutral spirits ft *1.25 QT. *2.45 SCHENLEY Red Label 72Yi% grain neutral spirits .*1.00 qt.*1.95/ iiuiiniiiii Both BLENDED WHISKEY and 90 Proof. 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