26 APRIL 1940, Page 5

The fog of war has got as near to Whitehall

as Orpington. It was announced on Monday that a hospital-train had arrived at that Kentish township with zoo British wounded, presumably from Norway. An hour later a correction was issued. They were not wounded after all, but troops who had suffered accidents, or weren't feeling very well. If fictions about the situation fifteen miles from Charing Cross can gain currency like this, who can hope for truth from Stavanger or Narvik?