TIME OF TENSION IN EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 5

TIME OF TENSION IN EUROPE

Denmark’s Uncertainty

(Received October 14, 7 p.m.)

NEW YORK, October 13.

Increasing tension, coercion and sabotage in the occupied countries is reported by the “New York Times” correspondents in ■ various parts of Europe. Competent observers agree that the situation in Denmark Continues to be critical and that sensational developments must be reckoned upon as a possibility, says the Stockholm correspondent. The Danish Army is in a state of alarm, and the guards on the King’s (Palace and also public buildings have been increased. The situation is tense, (but reports that the Government has been interned are denied.

Attacks against King Christian- in the Danish Nazi Press are the latest symptom of the tension between Denmark and Germany. One newspaper stated, “The long autumn of his reign will soon be followed by a dark winter.”

It is reported from Oslo that at least 200 Norwegian officials were dismissed after the state of emergency was proclaimed in the Trondheim area, while many employers of private undertakings hare been ordered to join the National iSamiing, or otherwise risk court-martial. People who fled from the -territory to escape Todt’s compulsory labour regulations must return. Police control over the youth organization has been intensified 'because of the development of undesirable ideological tendencies from the Nazi viewpoint. Italians Lose Town.

Six Germans were killed in the outskirts of Oslo in a clash with Norwegian patriots. A young Norwegian shot a German officer in another skirmish and escaped. News from Yugoslavia indicates that fierce fighting is going on in many parts of the country between patriots and Italian and German punitive expeditions. Croat anti-Nazis have carried out a series of successful operations. In Dalmatia patriots have captured the town of Kotok from the Italians. *

The compulsory draft of manpower from France to Germany had met with little success, though it has been pushed with exceptional energy. Even if official figures are correct, which claim that 150.000 workers are ready to leave for Germany, still 118,000 skilled workers are lacking under the Franco-German accord.