QUISLING'S DESPERATION

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 2

QUISLING'S DESPERATION

DIRECT APPEAL TO HITLER.

P.A. Cable.

LONDON, Oct. 10.

The desperate Quisling has appealed directly to Hitler to intervene personally and act as mediator in the Norwegian crisis, says the Daily Telegraph's Stockholm correspondent. In a secret letter smuggled through the Customs Quisling declared that he was unable to carry on as titular head of the Oslo Government unless Eeichkommissar Terboven was withdrawn and the Gestapo excesses were checked. The Norwegian intermediary in Berlin tried to deliver it to Hitler personally, tout was referred to the Deputy-Fuehrer Bormann. Neither Hitler nor Bormann replied. The Swiss radio, quoting reports from Stockholm, says the discovery of large-scale sabotage directed against the submarine's building yards at Trondheim led to a state of emergency in that district. The Germans arrested all the trade union leaders and former members of the Social Party. T'hirty-four Norwegians at Skien were arrested as hostages. Twenty-one Norwegians have reached Lysekil after jumping off a German ship off the coast. A considerable number of Norwegians weekly risk their lives by jumping into the sea from German ships in a bid for freedom. Nine who were executed yesterday were charged with transporting explosives used for acts of sabotage. The quisling authorities claim that they were secretly storing' arms for a "Dieppe raid" by British commandos. Strong reinforcements of storm troopers were sent from Oslo to Trondheim, where the situation is apparently graver than was assumed | earlier. They are arresting Conser- | vatives as well as trade unionists.