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REVOLT BY DANES

Strike Develops Into Armed Challenge

(Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received July 2, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. . Reports reaching Malmoe, southern Sweden, state that barricades, flying the American, British, Russian and Danish flags, hlled streets in Copenhagen tonight when Danish patriots continued to battle against German troops who were seeking to break up the two-day demonstration. Danish sources say that a general strike which started in Copenhagen yesterday brought to a standstill the water, electricity and transport services, causing food supplies to dwindle. ■

The hospitals are filled with casualties. Reports trickling into southern Sweden state that more than 700 persons already have been killed and wotin'ded. The Germans are reported to have threatened to shoot hostages and 'bomb the capital unless the Danes called off the strike.

.Fifteen thousand Danish underground ilimps equipped with machineguns and automatic rilles arc reported to have launched an attack against the German garrison in Copenhagen, numbering about noon, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “New York Times.” The lighting is specially bitter near the main railway station. The Nazis have commandeered all private trucks and automobiles <o bring troops to Copenhagen, because the strike and sabotage have immobilized all the railways.

Furious street battles continued all last night, while, the inhabitants, defying the Nazi curfew and openly challenging the Wehrmacht, flew British and American flags, sang United Nations national anthems. and lit bonfires from Nazi books and newspapers. The Danish radio, which for several hours continued playing gramophone records, suddenly went off the air without explanation, supposedly because Danish saboteurs destroyed the power station. The Swedish radio announced that the strike situation in . Copenhagen Ims become extremely serious in the last 24 hours. It is estimated that between 300.000 and 400.000 men have stopped work.

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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5

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294

REVOLT BY DANES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5

REVOLT BY DANES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5

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