GREAT EXODUS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 218, 10 June 1943, Page 5

GREAT EXODUS

Norse Quislingites Flee To Sweden

PARTY’S COLLAPSE PREDICTED (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received June 9, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. A considerable number of high officials and Quislingites of the Nasjonaa Samling Party are reported to have fled recently from Norway to Sweden in search of safety, says Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent. They form only part of a massive flight of Quislingites from the party, a flight that has been a feature of life in Norway since the Allied victory in Tunisia. The names of high officials cannot be given, but one is among the oldest members of the party and is the chief Quisling Commissar of the Norwegian Labour movement. Another is the chief of the Quisling S.S. in a province north of Oslo. Other reports say that .Major Quist, commander of the Quislingite volunteers on the eastern front, who recently returned to Oslo on leave, has refused to return to the front. Numbers of less important eastern front volunteers have fled to Sweden. . _ . Observers believe that the Quisling Party will collapse within a mouth of the opening of the second front.

RUMANIAN TROUBLE

Wide Purge Of Officials

(Received June 9, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 8. The Chief of the Rumanian State, General Antonescu, has purged the Government service, dismissing hundreds of officials and also several district governors, whose places are being filled .by army officers, according to information reaching Istanbul from Bucharest. The object of the purge is stated to be to eliminate officials who are suspected of anti-Nazi sentiments, specially those opposing the sending of more Rumanian troops to the Russian front. Hitler is reported to have pro'mised Antonescu a revision of the Rumanian frontier with Hungary in return for sending further forces into Russia.

CHARGE IN GERMANY

Secret Arms Distribution LONDON, June 8. . The Swiss newspaper “Arbeiter Zeitung” reports that a Nazi people’s court at Strasbourg, in Germany, sentenced to death four Germans, aged between 20 and 40, on charges of being Communist officials and distributing arms to members of underground movements. They have already been executed. Four others were sentenced to death on charges ranging from drawing a caricature on the city’s walls to founding underground groups and espionage. Many others were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for listening to foreign radio stations.

AID BY ITALIANS

Claims For Movement

LONDON, June 8.

A meeting of the Free Italy Movement in London, presided over by Mr. Ivor Thomas, M.P., advocated the formation of a Free Italy Legion under the Garibaldi, flag, to march into Italy with the Allies. It would do much to foment an antiFascist rising, specially in Sicily and Sardinia, where anti-Faseism was strong, declared Signor Calosso, one of the leaders of the movement. There was proof, he said, that the underground movement was growing rapidly in Italy, where sabotage and secret propaganda were increasing.

GERMANS FAIL IN YUGOSLAVIA

Most Recent Offensive

LONDON, June 8.

Information received in Turkey from Yugoslavia confirmed that the Germans’ fifth offensive against General Mikhailovitch’s forces failed. Guerrillas south of Belgrade dispersed a column of 5000 Germans and killed the commander. General Mikhailovitch’s forces have occupied 14 more districts in Slovenia. Dutch patriots wearing police uniforms went to the Amsterdam Town Hail and told the guards that they were a special mission to the registration department. There they ransacked files containing the schedules for the labour callup, says Hilversum radio, and before their departure they inserted several time bombs in the indices. The bombs exploded, causing a large fire which nearly destroyed the entire Town Hall. The radio reported similar raids at two other places, at one of which patriots walked off with a register containing the names of the entire population and more than 1000 identity and registration cards. “Swit,” a secret Polish radio station, announced that the Germans during May shot 550 Toles in Pawiak prison l , Warsaw. As a reprisal, armed members of the Polish underground movement killed three Gestapo officers who had beeu instrumental in these executions, while they were dining at a night club.