KEEPING ALOOF FROM NAZIS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7

KEEPING ALOOF FROM NAZIS

Civilians In Norway LONDON, May 5. The Germans are not finding it an easy task to run Norway as they please. Around the capital Norwegians are forbidden to go out after dark and are forbidden to go near places where soldiers are stationed. In Oslo the German effort at window-dressing by opening cinemas and theatres has failed. The Norwegians show no signs of rejoicing because the invaders invite them to do so, and the best cinema in Oslo was attended by only five people. Norwegians walk out of restaurants as soon as a German party enters. Oslo hospitals arc crowded with wounded, and outside the town two big trench-digging machines have been at work preparing graves. An announcement broadcast from the German-controlled wireless station at Oslo said that the Germans intended to set free as far as possible Norwegian prisoners of war under 16. They were considering setting free other prisoners, especially farmers, but the announcement said that serious difficulties were arising, partly because of the behaviour of a few prisoners of war and also because now and again the civil population expressed its feelings in strong terms. The Germans threaten to take Norwegian prisoners of war to Germany unless the civil population helps them to build camps for the imprisonmcni of their countrymen and to help look after the prisoners. SMALL SHIPS ARRIVE British And Norwegian Refugees (Received May 6, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. Three tiny Norwegian vessels carrying British and Norwegian refugees have reached north Scottish ports. The skipper o£ the last fishing boat to escape from Aiesuncl said that Get man planes bombed and machine-gunned people fleeing from the towns in open boats.