GERMAN DEMANDS ON DENMARK

Southland Times, Issue 24872, 12 October 1942, Page 5

GERMAN DEMANDS ON DENMARK

TALKS REPORTED TO BE IN FINAL STAGE (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 10. . An agreement has still not been reached between the German and Danish Governments on the demands made by the Germans, but negotiations are believed to be in the final stage, reports the Stockholm correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. The terms of a compromise suggested by the Danes stop short of any step which might •bring Denmark into active participation in the war against the Allies. The Stockholm newspaper Arbetaren says Denmark is one of the occupied countries most suitable for an Allied second front. It is not to be wondered at that the Germans are becoming nervous. Desperate, Major Vidkum Quisling, puppet leader of Norway, 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he was unable to carry on as titular head of the Oslo Government unless Josef Terboven, the Reich Commissioner, was withdrawn and tire Gestapo excesses checked. A Norwegian intermediary in Berlin tried to deliver it to Hitler personally, but was referred to the deputy Fuhrer, Martin Bormann. Neither Hitler nor Bormann replied. The Swiss radio, quoting reports from Stockholm, says the discovery of large-scale sabotage directed against the submarine-building yards at Trondheim has led to a state of emergency in that district. The Germans have arrested all trade union leaders and former members of the Social Democrat Party. Thirty-four Norwegians at Skien have been arrested as hostages.