TENSION GROWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 4

TENSION GROWS

OCCUPIED EUROPE anti-axis feeling CRISIS IN DENMARK (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Increasing tension, coercion, and sabotage in occupied countries is reported by 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 a possibility, says the New York Times’ Stockholm correspondent. The Danish army is in a state of alarm. The guards at the King's palace and also at public buildings have been increased. The situation is tense but reports that members of the Government are 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 staled that tho "long -autumn reign will soon be followed" by a dark winter.” In Norway, saboteurs blew up a power station near Bodo. While the Nazis under the cover of a state of emergency executed obviously innocent Norwegians, the Germans believe that British parachutists accomplished the deed. An extensive manhunt produced no results.

Norwegian Officials Sacked

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 and private undertakings have been ordered to join the National Samling or otherwise risk courtmartial. People who fled the territory to escape Herr Todt’s compulsory labour regulations must return". The police control over the youth organisation has been intensified because of the development of undesirable ideological tendencies from a Nazi viewpoint. Six Germans were killed on 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. It is reported from Dalmatia that patriots captured the town of Kotok from the Italians.

The compulsory draft of man-power from France to Germany has met with little success, .although it was pushed with exceptional energy. Even if the official figures are correct, which claim that 150,000 jyqrkers are ready to leave for Germany, still. 118,000 skilled workers are lacking under the French-German agreement.