PITIFUL SCENES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 7

PITIFUL SCENES

NAZI BRUTALITY. EXPERIENCE IN, NORWAY. METHODS OF THE HUNS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received May 6, 10.20 a.m. , RUGBY, May 5. The Norwegian Foreign Minister (Professor Kolit) and the Norwegian Defence Minister (Colonel Ljungberg) have arrived in London with the British Minister in Oslo (Sir Cecil Dormer) and Lady Dormer, as well as the wife of the French Minister to Norway. .The Norwegian Ministers have come to consult the British Government. (From Daventry.) Professor Koht, in a broadcast address from London, said it was not only a question of self-interest but a question of ...honour for the Allies to free Norway from the German grasp He warned those expecting quick results that it would take some time for the Allied help to prove effective. German methods in Norway were the most brutal since the days of the Huns and the Vandals. Towns had been burnt and the countryside laid waste. He had seen incendiary bombs thrown down and bullets showered on people and towns, and he had seen shivering women and crying children fleeing to the woods in the hope of being able to hide themselves from the German brutality. , , . . , “Perhaps the Germans’ worst defeat in recent years is this moral defeat,” declared Professor Koht. “No one dares any longer to trust the words of the Germans.”