 German follow-up attacks did not materialise, but the Luftwaffe heavily bombed the small port at Namsos.Carton de Wiart cabled the War Office and stated "with my lack of equipment I was quite incapable of advancing on Trondheim and could see very little point in remaining in that part of Norway sitting out like rabbits in the snow".The evacuation was not ordered until the end of the month and then completed in the early days of May, after the loss of 157 men of Mauriceforce.