UNREST IN EUROPE

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 5

UNREST IN EUROPE

SABOTAGE AND K1LLINGS FROM ARCTIC TO MEDITERRANEAN.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.

Increasing tension, coercion and sa'ootage in occupied countries is reported by correspondents of the New York Times in various parts of Europe. Competent observers agree that the situation in Denmark continues critical and sensational developments must be reckoned as a possibility, says the Stockholm correspondent. The Danish Army is in a state of alarm and guards at the King's Palace and at 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 aird Germany. One newspaper stated: "His long autumn reign will soon be followed by a dark winter." SABOTAGE IN NORWAY. In Norway saboteurs blew up a power station near Bodo. While the Nazis under cover of the state of emergency executed obviously innocent Norwegians, the Germans believe that British parachutists accomplished the deed. An extensive man-hunt produced no results. It is reported from Oslo that at least 200 Norwegian officials were dis-

missed 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, otherwise they will risk court-mar-tial. People who fled the territory to escape Todt's compulsory labour regulations must return. Police control over youth organisations has been intensified because of the development of undesirable ideological tendencies from the Nazi viewpoint. 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 antiNazis carried out a series of successful operations. It is reported from Dalmatia that patriots have captured the town of Kotok from the Italians. The compulsory draft of manpower from France to Germany has met little success, although pushed with exceptional energy. Even if official figures be correct, which claim that 150,000 workers are ready to leave for Germany, there are still 118,000 skilled workers lacking under the French-German accord.